When I use top, I generally use it to find runaway processes. The default behavior on Linux is to order the processes by the amount of CPU usage that they are taking. On OS X, this is not the case. If you want to order processes by CPU on Darwin’s top, you will need to [...]
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Using *NIX top on OS X
December 25th, 2007 · No Comments
MythMusic, Mac OS X, and iTunes
November 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tonight I set out to sync my iTunes library up with MythTV. I have been wanting to create some playlists on the Myth box, but I find the playlist “editor” (if you can even call it that) for MythMusic just a bit kluggy. I found the script that is embedded in this post which will [...]
Tags: Linux · Mac · Music · MythTv · Programming
Do People Really Think Like This ?!?
April 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Some nice lady with a very political blog writes that Linux is a threat to America. Read It! Believe It!
There are countless pricesless quotes there. Here is a sample of a few:
Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a [...]
Tags: General · Linux · Quotes
MythTV: Episode III – Revenge of the Myth
April 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Well, today was a looooong day of configuring stuff. I got around to purchasing a wireless keyboard and mouse as well as a S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD drive to the soundcard digitally. I embarked on what I figured would be the most difficult and time consuming part (and what I think was the [...]
MythTv: Eposide II – Attack of the Masked Packages
April 14th, 2006 · No Comments
Spent the day compiling Gnome and a few other things. I ran into a little snaffu when Mozilla wouldn’t compile. It would crap out complaining that it only supports 32 Bit ELF files. Turns out I had a mysterious x86 USE flag littering my make.conf file. After I deleted it, all compilations went fine. Next [...]
MythTv: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace
April 13th, 2006 · No Comments
So I finally broke down and purchased the parts to build a MythTV box. I got a nice Antec Overture II case and an Athlon64 3000+ to power it. Assembling all of the pieces took longer then I thought as I had to remove the motherboard twice, once to attach the processor fan correctly, and [...]
A Plane-arium on your desktop
April 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Holy crap does Stellarium look cool! It looks like Google Earth for the great abyss we call Space. The best part is that it is open source and cross-platform!
Also on the open-source front is htop, a suped-up ncurses version of top.
Tags: Linux · Mac · Random Linkage
