Me and my SSD drive: the afternoon geek-out post

Since I saw this video on Dave Shea’s website some time ago I thought, yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll use an SSD as my boot drive. That’ll solve the six year old computer blues.

Something called fseventsd is slowing my computer to a crawl

Apparently it’s the file system events daemon. It records the comings and goings of the machine’s hard disks to a log. Somewhere. This all seems well and good. But are the hard disks in my machine so eventful that it needs to take CPU load up to 4.5? (Less than 1.0 is considered normal).

Apple saves my life

I don’t normally write fanboy stuff about – well… anything – certainly not about computers, but after my latest computer disaster I have to say I have a much clearer idea of why I like Apple’s… pretty much everything.