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MGG 220: Your Mac Questions Answered and a BlogWorld Expo Interview

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John and Dave interview Dave Cynkin and Rick Calvert of BlogWorld Expo, and secretly (or perhaps not so!) try to convert Rick to the Mac. After the interview, Dave and John get back to MGG proper form and answer your questions and share your tips. Subscribe today and don't miss another episode.

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This podcast is recorded on an iMac (Core 2 Duo Mid 2007) using Audio Hijack Pro and routing courtesy of WireTap Anywhere.  As for equipment, John is using a Heil PR-40 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac.  On Dave’s end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is also used, and the whole show is mixed “live” through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Westone ES2 custom-fit earphones.  When PilotPete is in the house, he’s usually talking through a Heil PR-30.  Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac.  The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script.  Michael Johnston from iPhone Alley then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version.  You can hear more details of the setup and how it’s mixed on Episode #32.

Theme Music: “The Answer”, written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.  “Made On A Mac” bumper by Mark Fleser

2 Observer Comments

   Actions Dave Cynkin said on September 29th, 2009 at 1:32 AM:

You guys are my mac heroes!

We WILL convert Rick to Mac, it will happen. By force. Blunt force. Or sharp. Whichever. big grin

Great talking with you today, see you in Vegas.


Best Regards,

Dave Cynkin

Co-founder, CMO, Sleep Deprivationist & Thrill Seeker
BlogWorld & New Media Expo

   Actions Bob Harris said on October 27th, 2009 at 10:43 PM:

MGG 220 - I think your definitions of System/User/Nice/Idle were not correct (OK, Nice and idle were “Good Enough”, however, System and User were wrong).
<b>
System - The time a process spends executing in the kernel.  This would be time spent doing I/O, asking the system for the current time of day, asking the system to send a message to another process, time spent paging/swapping memory, time the OS spends handling an Interrupt just because the process happened to be running on that CPU, etc…
<b>
User - The time a process spends running in user mode (not the kernel).  This would be time spent running the applications code or shared libraries and frameworks.
<b>
NOTE:  Every process runs in both user and kernel mode.
<b>
Nice - Nice is a fudge factor that gives a slight advantage or disadvantage to a process.  A nice value is not an absolute priority.  The scheduler maintains a dynamic priority for each process which goes down if a process consumes its entire slice of CPU time, and increases its dynamic priority when it waits for something like I/O to complete.  The nice value is part of the calculation which gets mixed into the dynamic scheduling priority.
<b>
Idle - no processes ready to run on all CPUs.

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