Well, if you are waiting (like me!) to use a MacBook as my Blu-ray player in a Home theater, that won’t happen until January at earliest according to MacRumors.com
Blu-ray in Mac OS X 10.5.6
September 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: Home Theater·Mac 10·Mac OS X·Macbook·Os X
MDworker bogging Mac
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Like Windows, the Mac has lots of processes running. My current nemesis is something called mdworker which stands for metadata worker. That means nothing to me. But, apparently, this is the process that indexes files for Spotlight. So you can get it to go crazy after bad shutdowns where the Spotlight data indexes are screwed [...]
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Mac OS X 10.5.4 problems
July 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek
Well there is a bug fix release for OS X. Here are the things to watch out for:
Mac OS X 10.5.4 (#4): Spotlight problems; random shutdowns; poor performance; more – MacFixIt
Spotlight problems Some users have reported Spotlight problems after updating to Mac OS X 10.5.4, a relatively common occurrence with major system updates.
One reader writes:
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