Oct 13 2008

OS X Memory Issues

With Activity Monitor and the Finder open, and, a few background apps (Remote Buddy, Proxi, and PTHPasteboard). I had just closed all other apps: Mail, FireFox, iTunes, PandoraBoy, Adium, iCal, probably a few others.
With 3GB Physical RAM in this system, I was left with 750MB free:

It would seem this is no good, but I need [...]

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Sep 8 2008

Make Everyday The Middle Of The Week in iCal

I prefer using iCal in “Weekly” view mode. My problem with this mode though is that once you get towards the end of the week, you will not see what is coming up the next day(s) without explicitly switching to the next week - surely we can fix this?
What I wanted was to be able [...]

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May 14 2008

‘batch’ broken in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Give it a try and let me know if you agree… Quick test:
$ batch now
> ls
[control-d]
job 1 at Wed May 14 14:02:27 2008
$ atq
778240 Fri Jan 18 09:03:00 2002
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$ batch 17:00
> ls
[control-d]
job 5 at Wed May 14 17:00:00 2008
$ atq
778240 Sat Jul 17 12:39:44 [...]

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