Wednesday, February 25, 2004

I managed to stir a few people yesterday by sharing my experiences with OS X. Reading the comments apparently nobody experiences any problems and in fact I stand accused of not knowing what I'm talking about and being full of shit. By the way, I don't claim to be supreme OS X expert in fact I have only been using it for a year, before that I had the misfortune of using OS 9 for the previous few years. One person who flamed me then goes on to say "daily, weekly, monthly scripts? what the hell are they?", ok I suppose as a dumb user you don't need to know after all these scripts are scheduled to run overnight, but what if your boss insists you turn off your machine every day? I use the terminal to force run these scripts to clear up potential problems and if that is screwing with your machine then why the hell would Apple include such utilities as core applications. Thanks to the people who actually offered some possible solutions, it could well be a hardware problem I suppose, I assumed that a G5 straight out of the box would have the correct RAM etc.

What does make me laugh is how passionate people get over Macs, a few years back I was in the minority as an OS 9 user, now it seems everybody is making the switch and slagging anyone who uses PCs. I personally don't care which I use, my machine hasn't had any problems as yet and I never said it had only that I have been asked to sort out problems with the other machines in the studio particularly an iBook which seems unable to run for more than 2 days without the rainbow wheel appearing and spinning for hours on end.

For those of you who don't know how to run scripts from the terminal an anonymous post in my comments listed the major utilities (thanks by the way!):

sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
sudo periodic monthly

repair permissions with terminal

sudo diskutil repairPermissions /

Updating the Prebinding

sudo update_prebinding -root / -force

Jon 9:14 AM Permalink