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Oh I Wish I Worked for a School! — #1

Or otherwise a non-profit...because then I could go after this! Actually, I have two relatives who are either teachers or in some part of the school system, but they're a bit of a…
68kMLA Peripherals by cinemafia Fri, 28 Sep 2007 - 15:14

Original Apple Color Printer (SCSI) — #4

I got software on orig. diskettes for it, if you want ... Click to expand... Yes - I gather than these needed reasonable software support. Apparently alot of pre-processing to…
68kMLA Peripherals by macdownunder Sat, 22 Sep 2007 - 08:48

Original Apple Color Printer (SCSI) — #1

Greetings all, I negotiated to buy an original Apple Color Printer for the princely sum of US$10 from a fellow in Canada (he may be on here - if so Hi ! ). Shipping was a whole o…
68kMLA Peripherals by macdownunder Sat, 22 Sep 2007 - 06:35

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #41

This thread isn't going anywhere... it's pretty much dead. I was proved incorrect... now isn't there a different thread for ShapeShifter benchmarks?
MacNN Development by TheSpaz Thu, 6 Oct 2005 - 17:38

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #40

on my current machine there is no noticable lag whatsoever. on my previous one (G4800 / 640) the lag when launching an app was noticable.
MacNN Development by Ji Eun Thu, 6 Oct 2005 - 10:33

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #39

Quote: Originally Posted by goMac You could maybe do something with fs_usage, I'm not sure. Without making a parser for that it would be a horribly long process to find…
MacNN Development by Tick Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 15:45

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #38

Quote: Originally Posted by Tick Does anyone have any substantial proof as to what gomac or Rosyna are saying? Statistics on resource usage while shape shifter/other unsanity pr…
MacNN Development by goMac Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 14:49

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #37

The bickering between the unsanity crowd and gomac continues to make me giggle, but I will digress. Does anyone have any substantial proof as to what gomac or Rosyna are saying? S…
MacNN Development by Tick Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 14:25

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #36

Quote: Originally Posted by Rosyna goMac, do *not* assume to know how SS is doing it. You know what they say about people that assume things. If you're looking in a list o…
MacNN Development by goMac Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 11:17

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #34

in my use, shapeshifter/mightymouse/fruitmenu...slow down my mac...a bit. if i run a test user account without ape, things are a little faster. still...not worth giving them up! i…
MacNN Development by fisherKing Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 11:00

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #33

Quote: Originally Posted by Rosyna btw, Shapeshifter's open doodad is constant time. No O business at all. If you're reading a plist to find a match for a file you no long…
MacNN Development by goMac Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 10:46

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #31

Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin It's a speed hit I can notice considerably. The same with Kaleidoscope back in the day. Are you sure that's what you're noticing? When wa…
MacNN Development by Rosyna Wed, 5 Oct 2005 - 06:35

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #29

Quote: Originally Posted by nooon Does this apply for all APEs or just Shapeshifter? It depends entirely on how the author wrote that APE module.
MacNN Development by goMac Tue, 4 Oct 2005 - 23:04

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #28

Quote: Originally Posted by Blacktiger Actually, if you want to be technical. From a computer science standpoint, doubling and tripleing are merely big-omega(2 or 3)... and sinc…
MacNN Development by goMac Tue, 4 Oct 2005 - 23:02

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #27

R~ You should put together a demo with timings, or invite others to do so—concerns about speed hits are the #2 reason people shirk from SS, right after concerns for stability.
MacNN Development by mrmister Tue, 4 Oct 2005 - 22:54

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #26

This is an extremely negligible speedhit. I mean on the nanosecond scale here. And OS X only opens most files once so you're getting this hit once. I've noticed that humans can't t…
MacNN Development by Rosyna Tue, 4 Oct 2005 - 19:46

ShapeShifter DOES Modify System Files! — #25

Quote: Originally Posted by goMac Actually, MrMister is right. Every time the system tries to open a file ShapeShifter will add the overhead of actually checking to see if it's …
MacNN Development by Blacktiger Thu, 29 Sep 2005 - 10:41
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