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I’ve been wondering for a while where my disc space has gone. My MacBook Pro comes with a 100GB hard drive and it currently had roughly 36GB left of space, now let me make sure you understand that this does NOT include photos, music nor movies, all these reside on a separate external disk and our symbolically linked to the Movies, Photos, Music folders in my home folder. I do have a decent amount of stuff running on the machine, dev tools, darwin ports, applications etc, but I still feel like I had less space than I should.

In comes WhatSize an awesome little utility that goes through all your folders (including the bsd subsystem) and lets you know how much space each is taking. Here I saw some peculiarities, like the var folder taking over 20GB of space. I know the swap file resides in /var/vm but that shouldn’t take that much space, so I start digging and in /var/log/smb I see that I have a 18gb log file. 18GB for 1 log file!, and it is suffixed with .old to boot, so I decided to purge the thing, and I recovered my missing HD space.

After googling around, it seems that SharePoints might be responsible for that much logging output, I am not sure though.

The OpenDarwin has called it quits. R.I.P

As if Quicksilver is not useful enough, the brilliant folks of blacktree recently released Visor. These people are productivity enabling machines.

Update: I just noticed I didn’t explain what visor actually was. It is basically a drop down terminal window, similar to the console in FPS games.

Brilliant, just brilliant

TextMate has a new Blogging bundle. I’m just testing it out here.

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I got to Houston on Thursday and when I started using my MacBook Pro, I noticed that my battery died rather quickly. I charged it up, tried again, fifteen minutes later it was dead again. I’m not sure how long my battery has been fried (although if I would have to guess, I would say from the storms a few weeks ago) since I mostly use it plugged in with the new display.

Well, today I made an appointment at the Apple Store in Galleria for 2:10PM, by 2:25PM I was walking out of the store with a new battery. Apple service rocks! (In the US at least).

Microsoft Readies ‘Monaco’ Competitor to Apple’s GarageBand: “Microsoft is still pushing full-steam-ahead with a music-making program, code-named ‘Monaco,’ according to Microsoft partners who requested anonymity. Monaco would be very similar to Apple’s GarageBand application, but would be optimized to take advantage of Windows Vista and the Aero user interface.”

“Very similar” as in, the same but not as cool.

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I’m a little late posting this, but Apple just released the aptly named Boot Camp (Which I guess to them describes the Windows experience). It is a Mac application that lets you install XP on your Intel Mac. It prepares a driver disk (wow, actually managing drivers on a mac…), Installs a bootloader and launches the XP Install. I particularly enjoyed some of Apple’s sidebar comments:

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old- fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.

And…

Word to the Wise

Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

Update: I am not planning on defiling my MacBook Pro just yet. If I could install Windows on an external drive, I would consider it.

Today my MacBook is officially 1 month old. All I can say is that I love it!

Just Hilarious

Penny Arcade! - The Tome of Secrets: “I can%u2019t say much more than what Tycho already said. It%u2019s just really fucking good and that%u2019s all. I found that any time I had a problem this weekend it was because I was over thinking something. I was looking for some sub menu or a hidden setting when what I wanted to do was right in front of my face.”

Yup, It’s hard not to love a Mac.