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Smarticus — Leopard 100% CPU usage caused by syslogd and possibly Time Machine.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Smarticus — Leopard 100% CPU usage caused by syslogd and possibly Time Machine.
I ran into a similar problem to this, but it wasn’t because of Time Machine.  In my case, IntelliJ was logging a bunch of errors to the console, which then also go to the syslog.  My solution was two-fold, turn of console logging [...]

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]

Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup - Tech-Recipes.com

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup - Tech-Recipes.com
Should have searched some before putting up my last post… 

Time Machine Conundrum

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

So, I have Time Machine running on Apple’s new Leopard O/S and I am pretty happy with it, except this conundrum:
As reported earlier, Leopard’s upgrade process corrupted my main drive (luckily I was able to recover it, and I had a backup) so I went out and got a new drive to install clean on.  [...]

Leopard Happiness

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

A couple of things I am happy about with Leopard:

It fixes the annoying print dialog bug that allowed you to save a printer configuration, but didn’t actually save it.  For instance, in Tiger, I save a “grayscale” print profile and made it my default, thinking this way I wouldn’t accidentally print in color, thus saving [...]

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1
OK, go get a cup of coffee and a donut and sit down and enjoy.  The Ars Technica review is so very thorough and enjoyable to read.  I only wish I had time to create that kind of detail in a posting…
And the author is [...]