Author Topic: Giant Mike has a widget on page 36, Dec Mac Addict (Read 4461 times)

jcarter · « **on:** January 27, 2007, 09:00:18 AM »

TS own Giant Mike has a widget on page 36 of the December 06 Mac Addict!
Its a Mac maintenance widget called Maintidget, and its also included on the MacAddict software disk.
Congrats! One bright youngster he is!
Jane

pendragon · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2007, 09:18:43 AM »

Jane! I missed that.

And congrats to Mike. Bravo

giantmike · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2007, 09:46:44 AM »

I sure do

They contacted me way back in October to ask permission to include it on the disc. Of course I said yes! They even sent me four free copies, so I can have a keepsake of my publication. Those guys are pretty darn cool

P.S. there is an updated version of Maintidget at my website. Updated interface, a check for updates feature, and the ability to launch the Console logs right from the widget. I wonder how much longer it will be until I'm the new CEO at Apple

Jack W · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2007, 10:46:48 AM »

GM -

Steve's shaking in his boots!

kimmer · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2007, 07:47:14 PM »

Congrats, GM! Nice little widget.

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2007, 08:42:31 PM »

I'm more impressed with your site! Uknome&widgets!

I needed another kick in the rump to get me back to learning php!

jepinto · « **Reply #6 on:** January 27, 2007, 08:51:03 PM »

Congrats giantmike!! Pretty soon, we'll all be saying "we knew him when.."

kps · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:15:33 AM »

Nicely done GM, I no longer have to check the .out files to see when the scripts last ran.

...and thanks.

kimmer · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2007, 11:51:15 AM »

Now this was shocking ... my machine is on at night and those scripts hadn't been run since this machine went into storage!

I let them run last night. I actually notice a speed diff today.

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2007, 02:54:15 PM »

What version of X are you running, Kimmer? They are supposed to be run automatically since 10.4.3, whether you ever turn the machine off or not. And they don't necessarily run at oh-dark-30, either, just whenever the OS notices they need to be run.

kimmer · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2007, 07:50:33 PM »

I'm running 10.4.8. Do I have to set a pref or something? Or could I have accidentally have turned off the maintenance stuff?

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:34:28 PM »

No settings to turn either way. As of .4.3, the tasks became handled by a different mechanism so don't have to have the machine on during those early morning hours ( or even run any third-party utilities, unless you want to ). The OS now recognizes when the time has past and the jobs didn't get run ( assuming they didn't because the machine was OFF or just asleep ). It then runs them in the background just like nothing had happened. But most utilities also run extra stuff that the built-in ones don't do. Cleaning the logs could very well be one of them.

kimmer · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2007, 09:16:05 PM »

^Okay, then I'm just puzzled -- but that's normal.

themagpie · « **Reply #13 on:** January 29, 2007, 12:13:35 AM »

Congratulations Mike! I've always loved your site.

Margie

jcarter · « **Reply #14 on:** January 29, 2007, 07:39:48 AM »

Hi Jim, Thats interesting, so on my G5, with 10.4.8, I dont have to bother with Onyx any more to run those scripts.
Just this one with 10.3.9.
But just might do them both anyway, as I usually do them at the same time.
Thanks for the update,
Jane

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