From the monthly archives: September 2009

Super simple BASH script to monitor a process

By On September 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a little BASH script that I made to monitor a virtual machine on an OS X box. Basically when its CPU usage gets higher than 75%, I get a Growl notification and a spoken warning from Bruce – one of the many Mac voices.

One thing to note:

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Preventing a volume from automatically mounting in OS X

By On September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post I mentioned that I was going to install Snow Leopard on a smaller, separate partition. After doing this, I realized that both partitions were going to be mounted when I booted into either operating system – Leopard or Snow Leopard. I wanted to prevent Spotlight from trying to index [...]

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Impressions of Snow Leopard

By On September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

So I got Snow Leopard in Friday. Overall, it’s not too bad. Am I going to replace Leopard with it immediately? Unfortunately no. Though I appreciate the many under-the-hood advancements and some great new features, you don’t have to try hard to figure out that Snow Leopard has some issues.

Current issues:

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