Well, here comes the ignorant old lady again. I know you know it all,
but I have no idea what swap files are. And where do you find them
and what are they supposed to do and are or are not doing? And what
garbage is not collected? I am sure there are others on this list who
don't know and wo
Jerry Freeman did an outstanding job at last night's Louisville Computer
Society meeting. His knowledge and his ability to share the knowledge
made the evening speed too quickly by.
Jerry also writes three Photoshop columns a year for access. He wants to
know what you would like to read about, vis
Oh yeah, that list should include the update for the iPod. (I did not
mean to exclude the pod people).
Jerry
On Apr 28, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> Apple has released new updates (hmm, that sounds familiar) including
> QuickTime
> iMovie
> iTunes
>
>
Apple has released new updates (hmm, that sounds familiar) including
QuickTime
iMovie
iTunes
These are not yet available via SUPP, but are available from Apple's
web-site.
Jerry
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be May 25. The LCS Web page is
[snip...]
>
>
>I found one interesting thing out while taking a rare leisurely stroll
>through the undergrowth of my Mac. Apple seems to keep its swap file
>[using the hard drive as extra memory for emergencies] in /var/vm/. I seem
>to have 2 64M ones and a 128M one. Wonder why, the one thing t
As I'm looking, thought I'd list exactly what the nightly-task/cron tab is
doing.
[look at /etc/crontab first]
The directories:
/etc/periodic/daily/
/etc/periodic/weekly/
/etc/periodic/monthly/
each contain scripts that run when the time period in crontab occurs. They
have names like 500.daily
