I got an email that apparently the processor speed issue isn’t restricted to 10.2.8, as someone who was running 10.2.6 had the same problem. Also, I checked today, and it looks like my processor speed has gone down to 533MHz again. I double-checked my power settings to make sure I wasn’t going crazy (I’m not, it’s supposed to be running at highest performance). I’ll be upgrading to Panther tonight. Here’s hoping it’ll go away. Did I miss something? It seems like half of the people I’ve talked to are affected by this problem, but no one I’ve talked to has ever heard of the issue before.
So, apparently I missed this, and I was more or less oblivious to it over the past couple of weeks until a friend filled me in tonight, but since the 10.2.8 upgrade, my laptop’s been running at 2/3 speed. And I thought it was just me. How do you tell for yourself? In the terminal, type:
sysctl hw.cpufrequency
If this isn’t the right clockspeed (mine was running at 533 when it should have been at 866), curse Apple, and then shutdown. Once shut down, hold the CTRL-SHIFT-OPTION keys and the power button for 5 seconds to reset the PMU. Boot up and check the frequency again. If successful, it’ll be back up to full speed. Then upgrade to Panther before it resets the speed again. Be sure not to get drives wiped while upgrading.
(Resetting you PMU will also reset your clock, so be sure to network time-sync afterwards)
Also, resetting your PMU is different for different models, here’s the Apple KB article on it: PowerBook and iBook: Resetting Power Management Unit (PMU)
I have VLC and MPlayer OS X, so I haven’t bothered with playing DIVX in QT Player (also, X-Lab article), but last night it occurred to me that it might be useful (say, if you’re trying to burn an SVCD or DVD that uses QT to encode).
- DivX for Mac
- 3ivx Delta 4
- DivX Doctor II – links also WMA and AC3 codecs
- MacMPEG2Decoder – tangent, but good fun
I’ve probably posted this before, I’m always forgetting how to chmod against only folders (directories):
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s
Using the 0 character delimiter fixes newline and ending-with-space corner cases; that’s something new, would have saved me some trouble last time.
- Maxim should be Ashamed – damn, that’s some lazy ass liquifying
- Ten years of therapy in one night – hmm, ibogain, from an African rootbark
- Your 99c belong to the RIAA – Steve Jobs claims they’re making bupkiss on iTMS; see also CNET’s breakdown – wasn’t there a Fortune or Forbes breakdown that was quite different?
- The Grinch who stole Linux, see also well, all the stuff at GROKLAW. It doesn’t end. SCO vs Hollywood, IBM’s motion to compel discovery, etc. etc.
- Private Jessica Lynch says “The military used me!” – no shit?
- Neuroprocess – James Cui’s (VJ Fader)
- The the impotence of proofreading
This is a problem that affects manly, manly students.
I myself was such a bed spiller once upon a term
that my English teacher in my sophomoric year,
Mrs. Myth, said I would never get into a good colleague. - Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail – how convoluted
- Suckerfish Dropdowns – ALA article on another implementation of standards compliant drop down menus
- Some Mac/Win stuff: Ian Lloyd: Switching to Mac, Still Twitchy, Doug Bowman: Confessions of a Designer, SwitchBack
- XML-RPC vs. SOAP
- Multiple IE’s in Windows – much easier than multiple VMWare instances
- BOO-urns – definition, ref for when it comes up in conversation
- Treo 600 and it’s 3-pole jack – lame-o
- Potential Problems for Treo600SMS once Sprint SMS drops
- 10 things I love/hate about the Treo 600
- Patriot Act vs Strippers – is that a Protection from Pornography Week tie-in?
A friend had a spare ticket for an afternoon screening of Matrix Revolutions at Mann’s Chinese. Hmm, well, I’m glad I didn’t have to pay $10 to see it, I guess. Not as bad as Reloaded, but man, what happened? These sequels happen in a completely different world from the original. Anyway, no spoilers here, you might even really like it. Some comments:
- better integrated, but still a lot of talky scenes, but again, so much dead time with surprisingly little character development
- most of the scenes that are supposed to make you care about these people… don’t
- head. hitting. over and over. – well except for most of the important stuff, that’s left a bit too vague
- for example: where’s the resolution? i just didn’t buy the whole ending sequence
- Random thought: Morpheus’ character as metaphor for the movies
Ahh well, it is what it is (and for the most part, it works as a spectacular spectacular sci-fi actioner). Totally different note, on the way, I caught a snippet of today’s Bookworm show w/ Chuck Palahniuk. I really enjoyed the parts that I caught.
Mac observations:
- I’m running the latest (Nov.4.2003) Alpha of Adium 2.0. It’s quite nice. The new site is at SF. the strange thing of course is that the old site is still around. Now if only it could do file transfers (AV would be an added bonus)
- I’m using Mail for email now. v1.5 actually does organization by threading properly on Panther. Well, not properly. Visually it’s nice, but it does some sort of weird subject-line matching, and apparently ignores the RFC reply fields entirely? You know, jwz wrote a how-to on message threading, oh what 5, 6 years ago? There are a few other things I miss from Mozilla Mail, like easy filtering (especially to see only new messages), labels. I may switch back…
- One of the reasons I’m no longer using Mozilla Mail is because I’m trying the switch to using Mozilla Firebird as my primary browser. I installed about two-dozen extensions during a session and but it managed to restart OK, so I’m taking that as a good sign.
- Quicktime Player AppleScripts – never noticed this before. Some good stuff
Highlights of last night’s Elliot Smith tribute: Papa M’s cover of “Not Half Right” (guitar, violin, cello, pedal steel), Rilo Kiley’s set, including Jenny singing “I Didn’t Understand” acapella. Beck showed up and played a great bunch of songs, as did Beth Orton w/ M Ward (amazing virtuoso guitar playing, as always).
I took some photos, may put up some on a gallery somewhere if I get a chance:
- Treo 600 Support: upgrade – Handspring tips & tricks
- Single User Source Control
- The Future of String Theory — A Conversation with Brian Greene – The physicist and best-selling author demystifies the ultimate theories of space and time, the nature of genius, multiple universes, and more
- Information in the Holographic Universe – Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram