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Home Theater

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Much has changed in the five (!!!) years since I bought my last home theater components, so here’s an update on all the major pieces:
Amplifiers
Way back when the thing was to get a big gigantic amplifier. Personally, I tended to a compact AVR and then having amplifiers in the speakers. So I ended up with [...]

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Syslogd runaway

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

On my Macbook, suddenly syslogd is running away. Seems like http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030233438149 suggests that this is because of Tie Machine, even though I have it switched off. You can go and kill it with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and hopefully the new instance won’t go crazy.
In my case, I did this and the new syslogd is still going [...]

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