I have a unibody Macbook 2.4 with 4GB RAM, running the latest version of Leopard (10.5.5). In activity monitor, I see each process has uses virtual memory of over half a gig, with a total VM size of over 40GB. :eek: Is this normal? Is all this virtual memory eating space on my hard disk? Why does each process require so much virtual memory? Is all the software on my Macbook, bloatware?

The attachments show what I am saying. Do others also have similar VM statistics?
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Here is one of the best programs for tuning up your PC in my opinion, enjoy!

TuneUp Utilities® 2009 optimizes the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs. It combines important aspects of system configuration, security, cleaning and maintenance under a modern interface. You can remove unnecessary files from your hard disk(s), clean and optimize the registry, tweak your internet connection settings, recover deleted files, optimize memory and more. In addition, you can analyze your system, receive automatic suggestions for potential performance improvements and view detailed hardware information. TuneUp Utilities also includes an Uninstaller, registry Editor, Task Manager and even an Undelete tool to recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. A very nice tool, with many features that will appeal to novice as well as advanced users.

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I've been having all sorts of problems lately on my Macbook Pro. Things are starting to slow down. A restart doesn't fix it. I'm pissed off how Safari acts like it's running on the iPhone(before firmware 2.2 that is). It crashes like every 30 minutes or something. Even when I'm scrolling Macrumors.

Here's another thing. Whenever I click Restart from the apple menu, does nada. Only thing it closes is my iTunes. Safari, Mail, iCal just sit there.

Then, I manually quit the app but I have to force-quit mail every single time. Even when I'm not restarting. Mail works awesome and fetches my gmail and everything but it refuses to quit. I have to force quit at least 3 times for it to actually quit.

So, I'm thinking to erasing everything and do a clean install of Leopard. But before doing that, I wanted to ask if it is practical, because I have a lot of stuff on here so back up would take hours.

I mean, do users who do a clean install experience that new fast feeling?


P.S. My hard disk space is about 65 GB out of 200. Not too bad right? I don't believe that is the problem.
P.P.S: Running 10.5.5

Hi, all.
This is my first post, I recently bought a used MBA, I always want one when it first came out, finally wait until now because of the big price drop:)

My first mod to my MBA is to upgrade the hard drive.

I wasn't pay much attention when I purchase this replacement hard disk, didn't notice the MBA only takes 5mm height, as most 1.8" in the market are 8mm.

But since it's in my hand right now, I decided to put it on see if the MBA recognizes it.

Not too much surprise, leopard installation went very smoothly.

After the installation, the available space is about 95gb.

And because of the 5400rpm, it feels faster.

Too bad the bottom won't close because of the height of this drive.

But at least this gives me an idea, and I know there's a Toshiba 1.8" 120gb 4200rpm 5mm out there, and it should fits perfectly in MBA.

Anyway, I'm still debating myself rather getting this Toshiba drive or a Samsung 32gb SSD(Same drive as used in the Rev.A SSD version, but different capacity)
As the price of these two drives are pretty much the same (around $150 range)
I have another computer for my main work, so I'm toward getting a 32gb SSD:p

Here are some picture taken from the iphone.
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Live 7.0.12

Live is the audio sequencer you can play like an instrument. It integrates complete multitrack recording and editing functionality - play your studio arrangements on stage, or record live improvisations and edit them in the studio. Even better, manipulate the speed and pitch of any audio while it is streamed from disk - with exceptional flexibility and fidelity. Live lets you use audio any way you want: looping, synchronizing, improvising, and recording have never been faster, easier and more fun.

• Ableton Live 7 Interactive Tour

WHAT'S NEWVersion 7.0.12:

Improvements:

• MIDI surface controller support for the Alesis Master Control
• MIDI controller support for Vestax VCM 600

Bug fixes:

• Operator's voice stealing would not work properly.
• Under certain conditions an empty MIDI effect Rack could lead to audio drop-outs.
• The 'Rename' command for an Impulse slot would not be available via the context menu.
• A copied or moved Reverb would not properly show the correct curve with Diffusion Network enabled.
• After installing content packages, a dialog could show a message about a failed installation although the installation was successful.
• A copied or moved Tension instrument would not show the correct filter curve.
• Dragging a particular chain from a Drum Rack into 'empty' Arranger space could crash Live.
• Moving a clip in a track with an External Instrument and routed to a multitimbral plug-in could crash Live.
• Moving zones in the the Sampler could lead to hard disk dropouts.
• Live's search index would not properly handle version 2.3 ID3 tags.
• Dragging in a clip containing an Audio Unit plug-in could cause a message box to appear, canceling the drag.
• Tighter MIDI timing when looping in the Arranger.
• Files would incorrectly be dated as “Yesterday” during a few hours around midnight.
• The macro settings of a rack containing certain third party plug-ins would not properly restored when loading the rack.
• Having multiple automation lanes on an audio track and removing one lane would not properly display the audio waveform on the remaining lanes.
• Doing the the Capture and Insert Scene command could create a memory leak.
• When running as MIDI clock slave, Live would only display a rounded to the nearest integer tempo.
• The functionality to ask the AU plug-in for its supported formats would not work properly.
• If Live would run as ReWire slave but would not get called from the ReWire master for some time, a message box would appear to inform about that problem. This message box again could lead to a crash of Live and the ReWire master. Now, the the message about the inactive ReWire master is displayed on the status bar.
• Sending a MIDI program change message from an external MIDI source into Live would lead to a crash.
• Depending on the structure of the current Live set, arming a track could be extremely slow.
• Unlock offline would not work properly.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended)
• Any G4 or faster, (Intel Mac recommended)
• 512 MB RAM (1GB or more recommended)

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Just brought home my new external hard disk - it works fine. (for now) :rolleyes:

I've now moved all of my movies (which were, and still are in my iTunes library) from the User>Music>iTunes>Movies folder to my hard disk.

Now, when i try and play a movie, naturally it says "The movie could not be played because the original file has not been found. Would you like to locate the file?".

So - yes, I locate the file and everything's back to normal, but the trouble is, i've got 240 movies to go through! All are stored in the same folder, so it's just a case of clicking "Yes" for each file and looking through the external hard disk to find the movie.

1) Is there a quicker way to locate all of the movies in my library? Perhaps using automator? (I don't know how to use this, so any instructions would be greatly appreciated) Or can it be done another way?

AND/OR, BETTER STILL...

2) Is there a way of changing the default "Movies" folder for iTunes (like you can do for the default "Music" folder) through some sort of advanced preferences menu? I suppose this would rectify the problem in number 1, as well as make sure all movies that are downloaded in the future are placed in this folder automatically.

Cheers for anyone who can help me on this one.

This program removes Blu-ray region code from Blu-ray rips on a hard disk drive to allow playback regardless of region setting of the player.br

I'm a Mac newbie with a MBP. I can see my Windows XP system in the Finder under shared, as well as a networked hard disk I added with an smb connection. These systems are all on a linksys router.

However, when I go to the terminal and try to access these same systems by name, using ping, ssh, etc., the Mac cannot find them.

And my XP box cannot find my Mac using ping from a Cygwin terminal.

Any ideas what I should be trying to make this work?

(The other systems are on dynamic IPs; I'd rather not switch them to fixed IPs and hard code them into /etc/hosts.)

Thanks.

Sync!Sync!Sync! 3.6

Sync!Sync!Sync!... Do you have backup copy of your data? If your hard disk drive breaks, you can buy apps and musics but you can never buy back original data like documents, photos, emails, etc.

Sync!Sync!Sync! helps you to make copies of your data by synchronizing two folders. It's very easy to set up, and once this is done, all you have to do is push a button. Of course, Sync!Sync!Sync! can also run automatically while you are away from home, or sleeping.

It's also AppleScript compatible, so you can make your own backup flow. There are some sample scripts in the package, so please try to find out what system works best for you.

Mac OS X 10.5 has an elegant backup system ("Time Machine") but if you want to use it, you have to prepare a huge empty HDD. If you don't have one, or you want to make backup through a network (like iDisk), Sync!Sync!Sync! is a better choice.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 3.6:

• Change to count up the number of files which should be processed.
• Modify the bug that the message of the update checking function was only showed in Japanese.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
DEVELOPERsekn
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This week I got my hands on LG's brand new and recently released LG X110 Netbook with embedded HSDPA which I want to test as an alternative to the HTC Shift UMPC. Since the LG X110 sports a massive 160 GB hard disk drive, I planned to partition it into two drives, C: and D: which I do with most of my PCs and Notebooks anyway. While C: holds the operating system (in this case Netbook-typical Windows XP only) and programs, D: is used to store all my documents. The benefit is that I don't have to take care about my documents in case I have to re-install the operating system because D: isn't formatted or deleted but C: only. However, since the LG X110 is a typical Netbook, it doesn't features an inbuilt optical drive which makes installation of an OS a little bit more difficult. pp [ba href="http://www.theunwired.net/?item=thought-install-windows-xp-on-netbooks-from-your-windows-mobile-smartphone"Permalink/a/b] p(c) 2008 by a href="http://www.theunwired.net"the::unwired/a - All Rights Reserved pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/theunwired?a=jSnBrs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/theunwired?i=jSnBrs" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?a=sZw3n"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?i=sZw3n" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?a=ENRqn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?i=ENRqn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?a=ccxiN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/theunwired?i=ccxiN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/theunwired/~4/460967792" height="1" width="1"/

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A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”. They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. By creating a filesystem in RAM, you can read and write files much faster than on a typical hard drive. We decided to put the browser’s file cache into RAM.

We installed the Espérance DV preference pane in OSX to facilitate RAM disk creation. It’s really simple to setup. Just select how much space you want to dedicate to the disk and create it. You can have Espérance DV recreate the RAM disk on start and even have it automatically restore from a disk image. There is a check box for moving Safari’s Web Cache to the RAM disk, which creates the necessary symlink. You can also use it to speed up Xcode builds. Moving Firefox’s cache is fairly simple:

$ rm -r ~/Library/Caches/Firefox
$ ln -s /Volumes/RamDisk/Firefox ~/Library/Caches/Firefox

Since the browser isn’t having to hit the hard disk on every page load anymore, the performance is much snappier. Xbench says our random reads from RAM are now 86.19MB/sec instead of 0.61MB/sec when the cache was on the hard drive.

We immediately began looking for ways to get the entire OS into RAM; Tin Hat is a version of Linux that does that.

We’re very happy with the results of our RAM disk browser upgrade. Let us know in the comments if you’ve had a similar experience doing this in Windows.