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- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28"Do people still use Windows? Really, get with the times here. I'm going to write an article on OS/2, lets see how well that goes over."
- nitewing98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Why in the heck to M$ fanbois even bother to read obvious Mac articles? It's the 'net equivalent of hanging out outside a gay bar so they can beat someone up. It's more than just rude, it's tacky and shows a total lack of class.
If you don't like Macs, go play somewhere else. Like in traffic. - jediorange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@humanrobot
I'm sorry, did you just wake up from a ten year coma? - snowbooch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8i actually found this little tool last week and it's great for monitoring errors. def. dugg.
- AModlin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9This is great, uses less memory than sys-mon dashboard widgets.
- adiosk8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4why would that be sad? I would rejoice that the person knew it was linux
- cjvino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's called secret Mac envy. They want to use a Mac, but for some irrational reason they feel it lessens them as "PC" users. So they go completely the other way and become anti-Mac jerks.
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Finally, something -useful-
- lastobelus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I built a high end pc and it ended up costing me over $3000 by the time I bought everything needed. That's about the same as a high-end mac.
Plus it took me about 25 hours in total to do the research of what components to use and to order them all and put them altogether. Also it didn't work at first -- after a bunch of troubleshooting I was bored by this point and took it to a shop. Turned out to be a defective RAM module, which had to be returned.
Since I no longer work for McDonalds wages -- unlike you I suspect, given the nature of your comment -- this means the PC cost about twice as much as an equivalent Mac, or more.
Of course then again if your livelihood is such that the difference in price between a mac and a PC is more than the value of the time it takes to get and keep a PC running, the added productivity of OS X would be meaningless to you anyway, so you should stick with a PC. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should sell your old one second-hand, duhhh
- SPNKrPunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If your complaint is about top and CPU usage history, there is a solution in the comments in the original article. The issue is that top needs more than one sample to produce accurate CPU usage information. The code issued in the article (specifically, the -l1 switch) provides for only one sample, thereby preventing top from producing a CPU sample.
The solution is the code provided by asmus.vierck:
top -FR -o cpu -n 10 -l 2 | tail -11
In english: top -IgnoreFrameworks,NoMemoryMaps -sortByCPUusage -display10processes -2samples | pipe to tail, trim to 11 lines
Again, that was from the article comments. There were a couple other code snippets that one might find useful as well. - rampancy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This has been around for a while - I've been using it since my 10.2/10.3 days on my Power Mac and iBook, and it works great as a UB on my MacBook Pro.
I like to use it to output cal and date to my desktop; much more handy and convenient than using something like MenuCalendarClock or Apple's own dashboard widgets; it's also easier on system resources too which makes it great for lower-end or older Macs (Hint: format date to omit the seconds display and set it to update every 60 seconds - this substantially cuts down on the amount of CPU that GeekTool uses).
I also love to use it to monitor my system.log and console.log files in real time - they're great troubleshooting tools for figuring out why apps unexpectedly quit or crash. - lastobelus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1plus it has minimal upgradability since a year later, the socket is obsolete. About all I can do is add a second video card and use SLI. Bizarrely, 4Gb RAM seems to be the limit. And there are still things that don't play nice with XP64. All-in-all my PC building and owning experience has done little to dispel my long-held prejudices, and after owning the thing for a year the only thing I use it for is poker and occasional other games.
I certainly don't try to do work on it, although I did install cygwin and occasionally use it to run functional website testing with Watir. - luteslinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pretty cool, it does what fbsd did with clog and afterstep 1 with x but now you don't have to run x
- gmillerd, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1customer service is ---------> that way
- TheMacThinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is nice to see all this but this looks like normal terminal commands that geektools pulls and put it in a GUI.
How efficient is it though? How much percent of CPU and Memory does this application use when processing these data?
I would stick with the built in Mac OS X monitoring tools such is Activity Monitor etc... Here is a link where you can find out more about Mac OS X built in Monitoring tools: http://www.mostofmymac.com/articles/useful-tools-from-the-utilities-folder/ - omnibahumut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was at a coffee shop in Philly recently, and out of 9 laptops that were there, 7 of them were Macs. Maybe Philly is just behind the times.
- schutzaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I suggest "w" instead of "uptime", w gives you the uptime AND which users are logged in an what they are doing.
eg:
15:18:13 up 95 days, 21:19, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
bert pts/1 03Mar07 22:24m 5:30m 5:30m python hellanzb.py
bert pts/2 03Mar07 22:23m 8:51 8:51 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/paster serve hella.ini
bert pts/4 05Mar07 11:52m 1:24m 1:24m mc -x
bert pts/6 05Mar07 0.00s 7:20 0.01s w - mizzack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One time I had capslock on and discovered that typing "UPTIME" has the same output as "w". Crazy, huh?
- ilgaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17621 (Geektool, dynamic download url)
- ogore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't have a PC and it still wants to fix my comp :-(
- Pliep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DISGUSTING systemtools JavaScript nag banner alert for this page!
- mzim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent Tool!
Very good Tutorial, Thanks! - Zippo, on 11/03/2007, -1/+1Trying to avoid having to spell out definitely?
- MetalUnderShock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice tool, ill give it a try.
- mizzack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Been using geektool for a while now. It does a lot more than show output of commands. You can run scripts periodically and conditionally show certain output based on the result of the script...
I also have a link to the weather.com radar map refreshing every 45 seconds.
It's a seriously powerful tool and I can't praise it highly enough. I just wish that you didn't have to move the output around when you switch displays or resolutions. - biff198, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1it's cool.. there were only two things that I was frustrated by while trying it out. The first was the opacity. For some reason, when I dropped the opacity all the way to 0, I could still see the window, and I really didn't want to. The second was the fact that I use revolving desktop images, that change all the time. Some of them are light colored, and some of them are almost completely black. There was no obvious way of being able to see the text at all times, regardless of the background, minus setting the opacity (here we are again) to a high enough percentage, but who wants to see that window all the time? I want to just have the text floating on my desktop...
- Derfus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1cool but it doesn't work as advertised
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1@madskjaer
Sadly? FANTASTIC!, now if macromedia just made flash for ppc linux, I'd be all set. Oh wait I want xgl and beryl support too :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1Does it have a meter that will give me an idea of how much of my money goes down the ***** hole every time I have to throw away my Mac and buy a new one?
- RenZ87, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1@stevemax
Instead of bashing him you bash windows.... typical - madskjaer, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1Sadly, people will think that you run linux :(
- humanrobot, on 10/12/2007, -68/+3Do people still use Macintoshes? Really, get with the times here. I'm going to write an article on the Commodore 64, lets see how well that goes over.
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