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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #42: Monitoring your Mac with Activity Monitor and More

by , 10:05 PM EST, March 6th, 2006

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For March 6th, 2006

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John and Dave talk through the various bits of information presented in Mac OS X's Activity Monitor, which information matters, which doesn't, and how to make sense of it all. Discussions include managing your Mac's memory, virtual memory, hard drives, and processor utilization.


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Theme Music: "The Answer", written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.

Find more editions at the TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab index.

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Subject: Mac Geek Gab #42 (or any of them for that matter)

The information to noise ratio of this podcast is probably 1:1000. It is clear that these two find each other just oh-so-clever but I wonder if there is anyone else in the universe who finds their purile and annoying banter humorous.

This is the second one of these I have downloaded and it will be the last. I don't have half an hour to listen to Beavis and Butthead while I wait for one minute of useful information.

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