Hey Jerry, You're absolutely right, although the last mailing was provided by and paid for by Apple.
Due to past Complete Mac "skeletons in the closet", there are many things that MacTown has to work hard to get out from under (if that makes any sense). The biggest is Complete Mac's lousy service reputation they worked so hard to establish. Please be patient! It should be a brief 3 month uphill battle, but then all of the negative things that Complete Mac brought to MacTown will be a memory of the past. Stay tuned. Some radical changes are in the works. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 571 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021222/9eb5bedb/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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They also offer solutions for iBooks and iMacs >>> >as well. >>> > >>> > >>> > Jerry >>> > >>> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:41 ?AM, Ward Oldham wrote: >>> > >>> >Who's MCE? >>> > >>> >Ward >>> > >>> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:34 ?AM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> >That is what your critter is wanting to use, so if you take the >>> >space away, it thinks the world has suddenly tilted. I think >>> >MCE will swap your old drive out for a newer, bigger one >>> >(mirroring the data that is currently on the old onto the new >>> >one, and if you want also swap the DVD/CD for a DVD/CD-Burner) >>> >all for a fee of course. >>> > >>> >I must beg your pardon. I based my typings on Terminal from >>> >some of the comments that I have received from folks that never >>> >used a command line before... >>> > >>> > Jerry >>> > ? >>> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 09:33 ?AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> >Jerry: >>> > >>> >Here's what I get when I type "top" in the terminal (by the >>> >way, I'm not the guy that hates the terminal; I think that's >>> >Ward -- I'm just purely ignorant of it): >>> > >>> >MemRegions: num = 4998, resident = 92.9M + 13.8M private, ?110M >>> shared >>> >PhysMem: ?46.9M wired, ?108M active, ?275M inactive, ?429M used, >>> 82.7M free >>> >VM: 1.89G + 3.62M ??13087(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ??? >>> > >>> >No pageouts, so I guess that's good. Right now I have 652 MB of >>> >free space on my hard drive. >>> > >>> >So what does all this tell you about my system? Is it really >>> >using 1.89 GB of virtual memory? >>> > >>> >Dan >>> > >>> >>Yup, you found it. OS-X does use virtual memory via the hard drive. >>> >>When you start up it looks at how much physical RAM you have, >>> >>how much free hard drive space you have available and then >>> >>through some arcane formula previously known only to alchemists >>> >>decides on how much hard drive to set aside as virtual memory. >>> >> >>> >>I know you hate the Terminal, but humor me this once... (smile) >>> >>open Terminal and type the command: >>> >> >>> >>top >>> >> >>> >>then hit return >>> >> >>> >>toward the top of the page get back you might see something >>> >>like: >>> >> >>> >>MemRegions: num = 3220, resident = 60.7M + 9.20M private, 76.5M >>> shared >>> >>PhysMem: ?43.0M wired, 92.8M active, ?177M inactive, ?313M used, >>> ?303M free >>> >>VM: 2.61G + 63.9M ??9907(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ??? >>> >> >>> >>This is the virtual memory amount that has been set aside. if >>> >>for some reason, drive space is low, OS-X gets very cranky. (I >>> >>guess the alchemists didn't think about how cranky a machine >>> >>can get, sicne this was also the dawning of logical >>> >>positivism). >>> >> >>> >>Side note: If you see the pageouts number getting big, that >>> >>means your system is, well, under stress as it is saving memory >>> >>segments out to the drive (another reason why you want to use >>> >>the shutdown option rather than turning the machine off !!) >>> >> >>> >> Jerry >>> >> >>> >>On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:17 ?AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>I'm still trying to figure out my recent problems with X (which >>> >>were cured eventually by a reinstall) and I may have found a >>> >>clue. I again experienced some of the same symptoms, though not >>> >>nearly so bad this time. And it happened in a situation very >>> >>similar to the one a few days ago. >>> >> >>> >>There are at least two factors that were the same on both >>> >>occasions: I had booted into OS 9 and I had performed an >>> >>operation that created large files that nearly filled up my >>> >>hard drive. When I tried to boot back into X (this time 2.1.3), >>> >>I found that my desktop was unstable. The icons and the date >>> >>and time on the right side of the menu bar were flashing on and >>> >>off; my desktop icons had resized themselves to the default >>> >>size (I had set them at 32x32) and the dock had returned to its >>> >>default size and it was no longer hidden. >>> >> >>> >>Before the operation that nearly filled up my hard drive >>> >>(postscripting some Quark pages that had large graphic links), >>> >>I had about 1.0 GB of free space (on an 18.6 GB drive). After >>> >>creating the new files I had about 135 MB of space left. This >>> >>was the case each time that I encountered the problem. >>> >> >>> >>This time my system seemed to work more or less normally with >>> >>the exception of the weird desktop stuff mentioned above, so I >>> >>immediately deleted about 500 MB worth of files -- and >>> >>immediately after doing so, my date, time and menu bar icons >>> >>reappeared and no longer flashed on and off. I reset my icons >>> >>and dock to their previous settings and restarted, and >>> >>everything seems to be working fine now. >>> >> >>> >>It appears that, on my system at least, OS X gets real cranky >>> >>when I don't leave it plenty of hard drive space to play with. >>> >>Any idea why that might be the case? X doesn't have a virtual >>> >>memory setting like previous versions did, but I'm wondering if >>> >>it doesn't reserve some hard drive space for use as virtual >>> >>memory. 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