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    Indecisive hard drive

    My HDD is set to spin down after like 20 minutes of inactivity. However, on the few occasions I have been sitting at the G5 when it does this, I hear: PHEWWwww... (that's the spin down) (a little time goes by) (pheeeWWW-CHUNK) (now it spun up again and engaged) Then it spins down...
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    Do I need more RAM? You tell me.

    In the Classic OS, it was so easy to see when you were getting around to needing a RAM upgrade. Programs would each take up a preset amount of memory, and when they started using so much that you needed to turn on VM, you were in upgrade territory. Now I am all up-to-date with OS X, since...
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    Pause much? I do. (Tiger prob.)

    I am loving Tiger, but certain random tasks suddenly take much longer. Here are some examples that always hold up the computer (G5) for several seconds: - saving in TextEdit - opening in AppleWorks - loading Photoshop Well, I took a gander at the system log, and found that each pause was...
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    A couple tricky Cocoa questions

    (Actually, they'll probably be easy for some of you, but saying they're tricky tends to attract potentially helpful people ;-) Okay, hi there, I have been programming on the Mac for years in various languages, so I know all the basics, but still have a lot to learn. I have been learning how...
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