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November, 2005
Spotlight indexing problem solved
Submitted by reeses on Tue, 2005-11-08 14:41. | Mac
In a previous episode, our hero was having trouble with Spotlight. Specifically, for those of you too besotted to remember, mdimport was spiking up to 35% CPU usage every few minutes.
I tried some voodoo, such as reducing the Mail.app IMAP polling frequency, but the problem seemed to persist. I hate CPU meters, but I kept Activity Monitor running, complete with its stupid Dock icon, just so I could catch mdimport in action.
No, this is not about the defunct Macintosh clone and peripherals company. This is about the absurdity that is my new PowerBook, the purchase of which I have mentioned before.
This is not to brag, but to provide some context. I bought the 15", 1.67Ghz SuperDriveDL G4 PowerBook. I bought it with a 7200rpm internal drive and 2GB RAM. It comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 framebuffer with 128 megs of RAM on an AGP bus. Other than lagging way behind the G5 in power, it's reasonably respectable.
LGDVB418
Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2005-11-06 20:45. | electronicsI had been waiting for the Samsung HD-941 upscaling DVD player for months. Amazon had listed the release date always a month in the future, starting some time in April or May, possibly earlier.
Finally, this month, the status had changed to "Discontinued", and Samsung announced that they were not going to produce the HD-941. The HD-931 was available, but it lacked digital output (either HDMI or DVI), and owners were complaining of signal crush.
When I saw that LG had released an inexpensive upscaling DVD player with the Faroudja DCDi chip AND an HDMI output, I immediately ordered one from BestBuy.com. Other people were excited as well.