Well, I’ve just turned twenty!
This is a really quick post to say happy birthday to myself. I’ll be expanding on this post tomorrow with the presents I received, which have been really cool. I got a couple of Apple branded products from my mum, which always makes me happy.
Anyway, I’m …
The Mac Dashboard. Whether you love it or hate it, it can’t be argued that it uses up what can be some valuable system resources. On older machines it can actually slow them down considerably. My PowerBook G4 is two years old and if I open Dashboard, I really notice …
I love Mint; I really do. Though my stats may be awful and the numbers really low, it’s presented in such a gorgeous way that I just forget about it. The great thing is that it doesn’t just look nice, it really is helpful and incredibly interesting. I like …
I’ve decided to take a look back at my New Year’s resolutions and see just how well I’ve done so far. In previous years I’ve pretty much either ignored what I’ve set out to do or I’ve given up a few days into January.
1. Decide between black and white and …
I recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on my iMac. While it is quite nice and fairly “pretty” compared to its predecessor, I’m having one problem that I just cannot seem to solve. The sound doesn’t work quite right.
It’s not just me that seems to have that problem either, many …
PTHPasteboard is one of those applications which expands the functionality of copy and paste. It does this by allowing you to copy many things without having to paste them straight away; making good use of multiple “pasteboards” which store everything you copy. Using this application means you never have to …
My roommate Daniel has found another bug with the Mac - that’s two in as many weeks. Previously he found the Dash Row / Front Board bug, where you launch both Dashboard and Front Row at the same time and you get an odd merging of the two. This …
For those of you who noticed and were wondering, there was a lot of downtime on my blog today. This was actually due to me being an idiot. I was planning on upgrading to WordPress 2.1 earlier on today, however I had a phone call and had to run out …
The name of this post was actually intended to be shortened to something comical yet meaningful but I found it slightly funny being longer, so I’ve kept it. I was going to do an ordered list counting down from ten to one, however I’ve decided to do this list slightly …
Well, I was asked for it and here it is. I used a program called Xbench and these are the results:
Results 108.89
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model iMac6,1
Drive Type ST3750640AS Q
CPU Test 121.04
GCD Loop 275.00 14.50 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 132.50 3.15 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 97.12 3.20 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 86.46 15.06 Mops/sec
Thread Test 233.19
Computation 213.73 4.33 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 256.54 11.04 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 130.23
System 134.16
Allocate 128.54 472.03 …