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Granite Octopus posted:Argh is this why my software update is going so slowly? I've been without proper internet for more than a month and just got it back this morning. Trying to pull down about 10 software updates and its going at 200kbps.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I'm leaning toward a problem with your provider, since I just pulled down updates at ~5MB/s. yeah, I just pulled the 40 or so meg Safari update down in a few seconds.
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Safari 5.1.2 seems more stable; animated GIFs still suck CPU cycles. Definitely plays nicer with others, running Einstein@Home in the background it doesn't get steppy like an Android scroll..
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ManPortable posted:Finally I don't have to switch browsers to view or even just download certain papers. Or use vmware in my case- these past three semesters have sucked for downloading school pdfs. I still want FF cookie management in Safari before I can commit 100%.
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I don't know what it is but the new Gmail interface and Safari hate each other when I use them now. I can't autocomplete the To: field anymore and the page just constantly loads. After this update, the message window won't even pull up as it stalls loading the rich text editor in the compose window. Urgh. Why did Google have to gently caress with poo poo? Welp, just for the hell I whitelisted Gmail in AdBlock and it is working now. Urgh.... vikingstrike fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nov 30, 2011 03:01
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A recent AdBlock for Safari update addressed problems with Gmail. Be sure you have the latest version of that extension.
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Might have to manually update your filter subscriptions also.
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Binary Badger posted:Safari 5.1.2 seems more stable; animated GIFs still suck CPU cycles. What is up with that? I've been told it's a webkit issue but Chrome on Windows animates gifs without a hitch.
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I've always heard it was a CoreGraphics thing. That said Safari seems to have been ok for me once they're fully loaded, it's the animating while loading that fucks the CPU usage here.
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Whatever it is, there's no excuse. I just don't understand how this issue has lasted so long. I can stream HD video while I compile code, but if I want a few frames of a 256-color image to play smoothly, I'm out of luck.
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Anyone here use Notational Velocity for Simplenote syncing? I just noticed tonight that Command+F apparently does nothing, even though it exists in the edit menu. Is this a recent bug or something - I'm sure I used it in the past 
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OK so every once in a while I notice my 2010ish C2D MBP with 10.6.8 is running sluggish. I pop open iStat Pro, and see that there are less than 100 megs of memory available. It is strange, because I have 4 drat gigs. A restart brings it back to like 3 gigs available. Apps I usually run are: Chrome Ableton Live Adobe CS5 stuff Elgato Video Capture Microsoft Office stuff Taco HTML Edit is there a memory leak or something? Is there a terminal command I can use to release memory without having to restart? a_pineapple fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Dec 1, 2011 |
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Dec 1, 2011 09:12
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I don't think I get how the gfxcardstatus app works on my Macbook Pro. I set it to only use Integrated Graphics when I'm on battery. But when I turn on Twitter app or Firefox it still switches to Discrete. Am I doing something wrong?
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Binary Badger posted:
Great, no more white flashes. Instead now it's flashing black.
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Apple just released Safari v.5.1.2 via Software Update.
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Lexicon posted:Anyone here use Notational Velocity for Simplenote syncing? I just noticed tonight that Command+F apparently does nothing, even though it exists in the edit menu. Is this a recent bug or something - I'm sure I used it in the past Known issue: https://github.com/scrod/nv/issues/240
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't think I get how the gfxcardstatus app works on my Macbook Pro. I set it to only use Integrated Graphics when I'm on battery. But when I turn on Twitter app or Firefox it still switches to Discrete. Am I doing something wrong? Nope. It appears to be busted on 10.7.1.
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I'm having problems with rendering video in Final Cut Pro X on a Macbook Air. I'm basically cutting a large number of clips (~30) together, for a total video length of about an hour. No fancy effects aside from some zoom so that some videos take up the full screen. It plays just fine in preview mode, but when the video is finished rendering, the final product will randomly have the same 2-second splice of video from the first clip interspersed at random throughout the video. The audio plays through just fine, but the video will have these random cuts. Anyone know what the problem might be? 13" Mid-2011 MBA with 4 GB RAM.
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vas0line posted:OK so every once in a while I notice my 2010ish C2D MBP with 10.6.8 is running sluggish. I pop open iStat Pro, and see that there are less than 100 megs of memory available. It is strange, because I have 4 drat gigs. A restart brings it back to like 3 gigs available.
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SupahCoolX posted:Open Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor, and sort by the Memory column to see what apps / processes appear to be using lots of RAM. Running Photoshop, Live and Taco, then quitting them brings it down to 1.69 gigs free The top 5 items that are currently using the most memory in Activity Monitor are Chrome, Mail, and iTunes, iCal, and Quick Look Helper. The applications I opened above do not appear in the list. Is it a ghost?! edit: OK so it appears that if I open Photoshop, edit a file, and then quit Photoshop, I have 500 megs less available than I did when I opened Photoshop... Rather, it's not freeing up a few hundred megs upon exit. Perhaps it's all Photoshop's fault?
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Apple just released Keynote 5.1.1.Apple posted:This update addresses issues when working with large Keynote presentations on OS X Lion. It also includes improvements in stability and accessibility for Keynote.
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vas0line posted:Rather, it's not freeing up a few hundred megs upon exit. Perhaps it's all Photoshop's fault? Photoshop is very notorious for not letting go of RAM once it's glommed it.
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pipes! posted:Photoshop is very notorious for not letting go of RAM once it's glommed it. Is there a command in Terminal or something to release the memory, or is a restart the best way?
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Binary Badger posted:Apple just released Keynote 5.1.1. Still no iCloud support. I wonder what they're planning...
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carry on then posted:Still no iCloud support. I wonder what they're planning... ...Lackluster support and half-assed implementation? Honestly sometimes I wish Apple would stop trying to compete with internet services. They've never done it well and it only hurts the consumer.
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Manky posted:...Lackluster support and half-assed implementation? iCloud works well on iOS devices. I'd say what they're planning is to bring OS X closer in parity to iOS until they're the same thing and they've fully killed the file system as we know it.
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vas0line posted:Yeah, doing a bunch of Googling confirms this suspicion! drat selfish Photoshop! I can't guarantee it's not just the placebo effect, but purge has seemed to have at least some benefit for me after VMWare Fusion eats all my RAM.
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Does anyone know of a program that functions like smcfancontrol on the windows side for macs? The generic windows fan control programs don't seem to work at all.
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maduin posted:iCloud works well on iOS devices. I'd say what they're planning is to bring OS X closer in parity to iOS until they're the same thing and they've fully killed the file system as we know it. anagramarye posted:I can't guarantee it's not just the placebo effect, but purge has seemed to have at least some benefit for me after VMWare Fusion eats all my RAM. Since you said you have a "2010ish C2D MBP" you should be able to upgrade to 8GB, sounds like it would help you out (...and/or SSD but that'll cost quite a bit more vs 8GB being pretty cheap these days).
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vas0line posted:Yeah, doing a bunch of Googling confirms this suspicion! drat selfish Photoshop! Afaik you can change the amount of RAM that Photoshop hogs up/"allocates" when it opens up and stays open. I remember having this problem (except Photoshop was acting slow, so instead I added more RAM for Photoshop to take up). Not "exactly" sure where the setting is, other than there is a setting and it's in preferences. See if that helps. I've got a question though; I've got a MBA, and when watching Netflix the CPU gets maxed out because of silverlight. Is there a way to restrict the amount of CPU that is used by programs? Checking online, there are a few terminal hacks that I haven't managed to get to work. Any suggestions?
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dereekb posted:Afaik you can change the amount of RAM that Photoshop hogs up/"allocates" when it opens up and stays open. I remember having this problem (except Photoshop was acting slow, so instead I added more RAM for Photoshop to take up). Not "exactly" sure where the setting is, other than there is a setting and it's in preferences. See if that helps. Preferences -> Performance. 
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dereekb posted:I've got a question though; I've got a MBA, and when watching Netflix the CPU gets maxed out because of silverlight. Is there a way to restrict the amount of CPU that is used by programs? Checking online, there are a few terminal hacks that I haven't managed to get to work. There's some other scripts that do it with stop/start signals but I didn't try those and supposedly could mess with some apps. Otherwise I vaguely remember some fan/CPU control app that could mess with the voltage to keep the CPU speed low, but it was a pay app (and seemed kind of excessive for my use) so I never bothered.
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I'm officially in SSD land. Holy gently caress  Are there any optimizations or tweaks that I should know about? It's an Intel 320 drive, and I'm running Lion on an early-2011 MBP. curried lamb of God fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Dec 2, 2011 |
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Choadmaster posted:Great, no more white flashes. Whyyyyyyy. Now I can't unsee it. 
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surrender posted:I'm officially in SSD land. Holy gently caress Partition on 2MB boundaries, and enable TRIM.
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maduin posted:iCloud works well on iOS devices. I'd say what they're planning is to bring OS X closer in parity to iOS until they're the same thing and they've fully killed the file system as we know it. Yeah, and my point is that it's a lovely thing to do - launch a whole platform without getting your ducks in a row. Honest question: Does Apple make significant revenue on its online consumer tools? iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, iCloud, whatever the hell it is these days. I at least remember .Mac being pretty cool back before it was totally trivial to get data hosted for free/cheap online. But man, nowadays there are so many options for email, online backup, free site hosting. If Apple can't even integrate their proprietary internet crap properly between their hardware cash cows, what on earth is the point?
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It's a value addition to sell the hardware along with the benefit of locking you in...obviously it could stand to be a better addition. And their cash cows are the iPhone and iPad  . Well the Mac is too, but it's behind those two.
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japtor posted:I used cputhrottle semi successfully a few weeks (months?) ago while encoding videos. I say "semi" cause it worked but sometimes would crash and the process would go back to taking up as much as it wanted. Yea, I tried getting it to work, but every time I try "gunzip cputhrottle.gz", it gives me the error: "gzip: cputhrottle.gz: not in gzip format" Which is pretty annoying. Any suggestions? Edit: Never-mind, I'm an idiot and didn't understand that you run the .gz itself... 
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Oh I forgot about that, I remember running into that too. Just something with the server sending the wrong type and downloading as .gz for some reason when it's actually the binary itself 
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