+ Thu, February 17
5. The Libertines – What A Waster
The first time I heard this song was in my buddy Steve’s car, driving back from the local student radio station. I had convinced him to show me the massive vault of esoteric records dating back who knows how many decades and on the way to and fro, he played me The Libertines. I liked it all, but it was What A Waster that stuck in my head.
I didn’t run across The Libertines again for a month or two when one day, at work, a user brought a machine in complaining of frequent memory errors. What’s the best way to stress test the memory in a possibly ornery Powerbook? Elementary!
- Switch to Finder
- cmd-shift-A
- cmd-A
- cmd-O
For extra fun, perform the same stunt on the Utilities folder (especially when the nut has the entire OS X Server Suite installed):
- Switch to Finder
- cmd-shift-U
- cmd-A
- cmd-O
At this point, the machine will bloom up to 20+ gb of virtual memory and things will be… zippy. No kernel panic though. What more could I do to test? Why—burn a CD of course!
I switched to iTunes and looked around. Amazingly enough, this guy had good taste in music and indeed, he even had The Libertines’ Up The Bracket. Burn it I did, and as a glorious testament to Mac OS X’s incredible memory management, it was skip free. 64 running apps including all of MS Office, a large hunk of Adobe’s CS Suite, all of the OS X server tools, all of the normal Apple apps and a slew of other stuff and this CD burned flawlessly.
1 → Alec Jensen – (Feb 19 2005, 12:45 PM)
If you like the Libertines at their loudest/ trashiest (What a Waster) you really should get your hands on the I Get Along EP. Skag & Bone Man is incredible.
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