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Category Archives: Mac OS X
Did you know…
Did you know that when you purchase a music video from the iTunes store, you can burn it to a CD and listen to it on a CD player. That is, you can make music CDs from the music videos … Continue reading
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syslog consuming 100% cpu – SOLVED!
Finally figured out. Can’t explain how it happened, but I know what happened. A couple of months ago, I dropped my MacBook and the hard drive froze. I was able to replace it with no issue. I went to install … Continue reading
ok…just kidding…no idea what’s up with the syslog process
Just an update, I have no idea what’s causing the syslog process to hog all the cpu. It appears to be related to the periodic daily task, but not sure which one..
Posted in Annoyances, Apple, Mac OS X, MacBook, WTF
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syslog consuming 100% cpu part deux
So, from the previous post, I thought I may have been on to something with 100GB daily.out file. As it turns out, I wasn’t. But, I kept digging today. And I found something interesting in system.log file Mar 26 03:30:41 … Continue reading
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It started with syslog consuming all my cpu
A rather strange phenomenon has been occurring on my Mac over the last several weeks. Don’t know what started nor do I know if it’s over, but I want to tell you the tale of the 110GB daily.out file and … Continue reading
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Praise to Time Capsule
Last week, I dropped my MacBook in our living room. The net result? A failed hard drive. After a quick trip to Best Buy, I picked up a new drive and later that night had it plugged in. I suspect … Continue reading
Un-install MySQL from Mac OS X Leopard
This weekend, mucking around with Ruby on Rails and MySQL, I wanted to uninstall previous versions of MySQL that I had installed on my Mac. Quick Google search, and viola: sudo rm /usr/local/mysqlsudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOMsudo rm … Continue reading
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Safari 3: “cannot decode raw data” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1015)
Out of the blue, when I launched Safari 3 on my MacBook, I started receiving the error: The error was: “cannot decode raw data” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1015) when trying to access My Yahoo! To fix, I went to Safari -> Reset Safari … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Mac OS X, MacBook, Software
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iTunes + iPhone + Leopard Upgrade = broken :(
This weekend, I received Leopard as a gift for being the best man in a wedding. I installed it tonight without a hitch, or at least that’s what I thought. I must say, the upgrade was easy and much to … Continue reading
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Network Printing and Canon PIXMA MX310
Purchased the Canon PIXMA MX310 all-in-one office printer tonight and the heat was on to get it to work for the MacBook over a wireless network. I have the DLINK DPR-1260 wireless router/booster/print server which does not have any support … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Mac OS X, MacBook, Software
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