We’ll Closed…
Nov.25, 2003 in
General
We’ll Closed On Thanksgiving Day
November 27th, 2003
You’ve got to love Chinese Take Out Restaurants’ announcements…
Entries for November, 2003
All Roads Lead to Korn…
Nov.25, 2003 in
General
The iTunes Music Store is on the fritz. Every link I click on takes me to the clean only version of a Korn album, except for links on that page, that take me to Brittany Spears (but all of her links lead me back to Korn). All links lead to Korn…
UPDATE: The problem [...]
Hallo, Deutschland!
Nov.24, 2003 in
General
Willkommen zu meinem blog! Macnews.de has reported on my Share2Blue2th scripts. I received an email from Ben Schwan, editor for macnews.de, this morning, asking if I knew how to get the scripts working with a P900/800. I’m not sure how, as I do not have a P900/800, but this discussion states that it [...]
Number Portability…
Nov.24, 2003 in
General
For those of you who have been wanting a 3650, but your current cellular carrier doesn’t carry it: Rejoice! Number portability is here and Gizmodo has a nice group of links for you to look at as you look into making the switch…
Printing to a Bluetooth Printer from your 12-inch…
Nov.20, 2003 in
General
For those of you who are frustrated with Apple’s lack of any support for bluetooth printing, you might want to look at this discussion. There you will find a link to the most daftly pointless Knowledge Base Article I have ever seen, as well as a few work around solutions that will allow you [...]
CPUfrequency flaw: sysctl command does not work properly (confirmed)
Nov.19, 2003 in
General
According to this comment on VersionTracker, the sysctl command does not work properly. Here’s what it says:
Just run sysctl -a and you’ll see what I am talking about…
You’ll get the same results for hw.cpufrequency, hw.cpufrequency_min & hw.cpufrequency_max
This means that the sysctl command does not work properly, a fact we already recognized when evaluating [...]
CPUfrequency may not work with 1Ghz TiBooks
Nov.19, 2003 in
General
This discussion, titled “Slowdown on 1Ghz Ti Book” indicates that sysctl hw.cpufrequency is reporting inconsistent results on these machines. Thanks to Steve for this info! It would seem to be a good idea to run XBench along with the CPUfrequency scripts to make sure that the PMU reset actually fixed the problem.
Apple Hardware Test may incorrectly report that the Bluetooth module is not present…
Nov.19, 2003 in
General
This KB article has information that may be of use to those of you troubleshooting a bluetooth problem with your computer.
CPUfrequency 1.1
Nov.19, 2003 in
General
Hello everyone. I updated the CPU frequency scripts so that the results will now be displayed in Mhz, rather than just plain ol’ hz. This change is based on code provided by Sarah Baucom in this comment. Thanks, Sarah!
Here’s the new code for the scripts:
display dialog “Processor Speed: ” & (round [...]
Explanation of sysctl hw.cpufrequency and what CPUfrequency does…
Nov.19, 2003 in
General
My friend, Jay Savage, who understands the BSD underbelly of OS X quite a bit better than I, explains what sysctl hw.cpufrequency does:
The poster at version tracker is correct that sysctl doesn’t return a real number. It returns a constant passed to the system at system start-up (and possibly wake-up, I’m not sure) by the [...]
CPUfrequency comments…
Nov.18, 2003 in
General
Well, according to this comment on VersionTracker the command line instruction that my script uses *might* not work properly:
With sysctl hw.cpufrequency you’ll always get the maximum or the reduced processor speed regardless of the settings in the “Energy Saver” panel.
At the moment the only tool which reports the actual cpu speed correctly is Apple’s Skidmarks [...]
Welcome MacNN readers…
Nov.18, 2003 in
General
If you’re looking for the scripts mentioned on MacNN, you’ll find them linked under downloads in the side bar. Hope you find them useful. More info on them below and in the archives. Hope you enjoy your stay!
CNET: “Nokia: Original batteries don’t explode”
Nov.18, 2003 in
General
More on the exploding Nokia phenomenon that I’ve mentioned here before over at CNET. Nokia reaffirms that the only phones effected are ones using 3rd party batteries. Here’s an excerpt:
“We believe Test-Aankoop’s new test results of original Nokia batteries erase any doubts as to the safety of Nokia products, including original Nokia batteries,” [...]
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