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OK thx guys, Ive got it nailed now
. I'm gonna delete OnyX now, and just use Repair permissions in Disk utility once in a while. I wont worry about my HD because I know that I'll always have enough space. I rarely install things. As for restarting, I do that once a week or so and even shut down once in a while if I dont use it for a day. (rarely ) These are the only three things I should do then for a clean Mac then, right? 1) spacious HD 2)restart
3) repair permissions
. I'm gonna delete OnyX now, and just use Repair permissions in Disk utility once in a while. I wont worry about my HD because I know that I'll always have enough space. I rarely install things. As for restarting, I do that once a week or so and even shut down once in a while if I dont use it for a day. (rarely ) These are the only three things I should do then for a clean Mac then, right? 1) spacious HD 2)restart 3) repair permissions
Well, after Dashboard has been initialized after a restart, go into activity monitor and see how much resources they eat up (both Real Memory (steals RAM) and Virtual Memory (steals HD space)) and judge for yourself... me, I disabled Dashboard all together on my poor old iBook G4...rye9 said:
Mitthrawnuruodo said:Well, after Dashboard has been initialized after a restart, go into activity monitor and see how much resources they eat up (both Real Memory (staels RAM) and Virtual Memory (steals HD space)) and judge for yourself... me, I disabled Dashboard all together on my poor old iBook G4...
If I was running Tiger I would probably do the same.
Mind you, I don't have Tiger installed on my machine for that very reason (i.e. I wouldn't use Dashboard very much in the first place!)
You could be very surprised. At first it just sounds like a "little play thing," but once you get used to using it, it is a very valuable tool. I can't tell you how often I use the Language Translator widget, and the Unit Converter widget. Not to mention I must check the weather 15 times per day. And it's all there so you won't have to stop what your doing, you just hit F12 do what you need to do, and your back to that essay you were righting.~Shard~ said:If I was running Tiger I would probably do the same.
Mitthrawnuruodo said:Well, after Dashboard has been initialized after a restart, go into activity monitor and see how much resources they eat up (both Real Memory (steals RAM) and Virtual Memory (steals HD space)) and judge for yourself... me, I disabled Dashboard all together on my poor old iBook G4...
If you disable DB and keep everything else cool about Tiger (i.e. Spotlight, without which I could not live!
) then does it make a big difference in performance on your iBook? I like DB but I'm wondering if I should do this too. I've been paring down... I only have four widgets left. iCal Events, Uptime, Calculon, and one Sticky. I guess, in a pinch, I could let Uptime go.
Since you only have 4 widgets active, and none of them are real memory/CPU/HDD eaters, I think you'll be fine. It wouldn't make a huge difference.mkrishnan said:If you disable DB and keep everything else cool about Tiger (i.e. Spotlight, without which I could not live!
EricNau said:You could be very surprised. At first it just sounds like a "little play thing," but once you get used to using it, it is a very valuable tool. I can't tell you how often I use the Language Translator widget, and the Unit Converter widget. Not to mention I must check the weather 15 times per day. And it's all there so you won't have to stop what your doing, you just hit F12 do what you need to do, and your back to that essay you were righting.
Oh yeah, I know, I'm sure it would be one of those things I would use a lot once I got used to it, but for me, I just don't have that desire yet to spend money for Tiger since I have zero complaints about Panther. I'll probably just wait for Leopard...
I'm pretty sure it only runs if the computer was sleeping during the normal script time. If the computer is off, the scripts do not run on startup. I'm not 100% positive though.mad jew said:Now that isn't a problem though, because they run when the machine starts up or wakes up.
Not a huge difference as I was just running 4 widgets myself in the end: World Clock, iCalEvents, UnitConverter and Weather. But they would pull about half a GB virtual memory once initialized (and a little bit of my precious 640 MB RAM), and I'm really pressed for space on my iBook, so I just thought "why do I need that at all...?"mkrishnan said:If you disable DB and keep everything else cool about Tiger (i.e. Spotlight, without which I could not live!
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Actually, that's really useful information. I hadn't really thought about it that way. I also would like it if I had about another 1-2 gigs of free space on my iBook... Thank you!