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OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X Memory Monitor show the memory usage under Mac OS X. There are 4 main components to memory usage based on the total amount of memory installed: * Free Memory: This is memory available for use immediately by an application or the system. * InActive Memory: … Continue reading »

Reef Central Online Community – Things that cost more than premium membership… 3 terabytes is how much data we send across the wire in a month. 3 gig is around the amount of text data we have on the site. The index into that data is around 7 gig. In addition to that we store … Continue reading »

The Venture Capital Squeeze Just as Joel Krause, one of the founders of Excite, mentioned in a recent article of Business 2.0, it can be pretty cheap now to start an online startup. Open source and LAMP is free, the server hardware is very cheap, and marketing through the web and word of mouth can … Continue reading »

We’re outfitting a new server here in the office, and it appears the Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB Serial ATA 10,000RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer ($165 ZipZoomFly) is the fastest Serial ATA drive out there. It also has a five-year warranty and 1.2 million hours MTBF so it appears Western Digital is confident the high … Continue reading »

I added 2 1Gb sticks to our 1.8 Ghz PowerMac today in order to take care of the memory needs of Lasso since when Lasso was using a lot of memory, only a few megabytes of free RAM were available to the OS. The nice side-effect of this extra RAM is that WebStar and WebStar … Continue reading »

Simply CG Network :: View topic – Sony Product Transformations *FINAL ANIM ON PAGE 3 Great modeling and animation with 3ds max.

I hope once the Macintosh moves over to the Intel platform that one will be able to boot from a USB drive. USB 2.0 is fast at 480 Mb/Sec, and USB enclosures are usually less expensive and easier to find than Firewire drives. I guess we’ll see what happens in 2006.

A script is needed for Filemaker Server 5.5 auto startup. Although this link gets you there, it starts up FM Server with root as the user so that FM Server config can’t access FM Server: FM Server 5.5 startup script To remedy this situation, in the FMPServer file, replace the code with this: #!/bin/sh . … Continue reading »

ABC News: Silicon Insider: Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere So my question is how big money is going to be made through blogs. I’ve always loved using a computer to keep a personal log back to my Kaypro II days, and I love Blogger and WordPress, but where’s the money going to be coming from? Malone … Continue reading »

The iBook had a crash again last night, so I removed the 1 GB SODIMM from it, and it seems to be working fine now on 256 Mb of memory. Since I really don’t stress out the iBook with a lot of apps, I’ll probably leave the memory configuration alone or add 256 Mb at … Continue reading »