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Windows 8.1 part of game where name matters
The more information that leaks about Windows 8’s expected summer upgrade, dubbed “Blue” by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts say.
And with very few exceptions, customers don’t have answers.
The latest tidbit about Windows Blue — disclosed earlier this week — was that the upgrade would be named “Windows 8.1,” a convention reminiscent of rival Apple’s system of numbering its versions of OS X as, for example, 10.7 for Lion, 10.8 for Mountain Lion.
Apple then adds a third number to signal each update. Mountain Lion, for instance, is currently at 10.8.3, meaning it has been updated three times since its July 2012 debut.
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Apple updates Mountain Lion, patches Safari
Apple yesterday updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues. …read more
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Apple Updates Mac OS X to Include Windows 8 Support
By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Even if others can’t, Apple has no problem backing Windows 8.
In an update released Thursday afternoon, the company added support for running Microsoft‘s latest Windows operating system in Macs running the 10.8.3, or “Mountain Lion,” edition of the Macintosh OS.
Apple has long made it possible to “boot” or load Windows on a Mac via a native software program called Boot Camp. The company upgraded the app in 10.8.3. Other improvements include fixes to certain flaws found in earlier versions of the OS, plus the latest edition of the Safari browser.
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Far Cry 3 DLC Gets All Bundled Together
Starting today, Far Cry 3 players will be able to get all four downloadable content packs.The packs were previously only available as pre-order bonuses, but will now come as one convenient bundle including everything from The Lost Expeditions, The Monkey Business Pack, The Warrior, and The Predator Pack, which breaks down individually as:
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Memory leak?
By dasx
Hey everybody.
There’s a built in command in Max OSX Mountain Lion called caffeinate. (Man page here).
It basically creates an assertion so the computer doesn’t go to sleep.
There’s a built in command in Max OSX Mountain Lion called caffeinate. (Man page here).
It basically creates an assertion so the computer doesn’t go to sleep.
I leave my computer uploading and/or downloading small files from our work FTP server at night, problem is due to new behave rules of sleeping mode in Mountain Lion it goes to sleep 10 minutes after I turned the screen off. I don’t wanna just disable “Sleep”, because I want my computer to go to sleep as soon as it finished.
So created this function that I run when downloading something:
(Got another one for when uploading)
Code:
echo
echo "AWAKE WHILE DOWNLOAD SPEED IS OVER 30KB/s"
echo
caffeinate &
id=$!
s1=`date '+%s'`
echo
v=100
avg=0
mins=0
while [ $v -gt 30 ]
do sleep 1
a=`netstat -ib -I en1 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $7}'`
sleep 59
b=`netstat -ib -I en1 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $7}'`
v=$(((b-a)/1024/59))
avg=$((avg+v))
mins=$((mins+1))
vmedia=$((avg/mins))
if [ $v -gt 30 ]
then echo -ne "r33[K"
echo -ne "LAST MINUTE AVERAGE: "$v"KB/s [GA: "$vmedia"KB/s]"
else echo -ne "r33[KGLOBAL SPEED AVERAGE: "$vmedia"KB/s"
s2=`date '+%s'`
a=$((s2-s1))
echo
down=$((vmedia*a))
echo -ne "TOTAL DOWNLOADED: "
if [ $down -lt 1024 ]
then echo -ne $down
elif [ $down -lt $((1024*1024)) ]
then echo $down | awk '{printf "%.2f",$1/1024}'
else echo $down | awk '{printf "%.2f",$1/1024/1024}'
fi
if [ $down -lt 1024 ]
then echo -ne KB
elif [ $down -lt $((1024*1024)) ]
then echo -ne MB
else echo -ne GB
fi
fi
done
kill $id
echo
h=$((a/3600))
a=$((a-3600*h))
m=$((a/60))
echo
echo "TOTAL TIME AWAKE: "$h"h"$m"m"
hora=`date '+%H'`
minuto=`date '+%M'`
echo "JOB FINISHED AT $hora:$minuto"
echo
Problem comes when it’s been running for long periods of time. (i.e. 8 hours).
When I wake the computer up memory usage is up to 99-100%.
First time I noticed this went straight to activity monitor and saw the 85% was inactive memory. It did eventually free up but this got me thinking. Ran my script again and I could see the inactive memory going up at like 1MB/s or so.
Any ideas why this happens?
Thanks!
Mountain Lion mauls other OS X editions for top spot
Five months after its release, Apple’s Mountain Lion became the most widely-used version of OS X, a Web measurement firm said Tuesday.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Computerworld Latest