How come I never see you when I am in there? (I keep dragging 'switchers' there pretty regularly to dispel the notion that there are no Mac stores in Louisville.)
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Ward Oldham wrote: > 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. > > <image.tiff> > Ward Oldham, MacDude > MacTown > 1041 Bardstown Road > Louisville, KY ?40204 > 502-485-1243 > ward at mactown.us > > > > On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> That's certainly another option one, that I like as well, but you >> gotta admit, they don't let folks know about it very much! >> (The last mailing I got from them, this past week, just says they are >> open). >> >> Jerry >> >> On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Ward Oldham wrote: >> >>> Very competitive, Dan. >>> >>> Ward Oldham >>> >>> On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: >>> >>>> Is Mactown's pricing comparable to MCE's? >>>> >>>> >Cmon Jerry, Mactown does that locally. >>>> > >>>> >Ward >>>> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:23 ?PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >MCE Technologies >>>> > >>>> >http://www.mcetech.com/ ???will get you to the front page and ? >>>> >http://www.mcetech.com/products.html ??will get you to the >>>> >upgrades page. 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. I have 512 MB of RAM, if that makes any difference. >>>> >> >>>> >>Any thoughts on this? >>>> >> >>>> >>Dan >>>> >> >>>> >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 7342 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021222/48efdd12/attachment.bin
