What process is causing DISK I/O

Sometimes, there is a lot of activity on my Macbook Pro drive, and I would like to find out what is causing all these Disk I/O’s. I found this thread that can help: http://superuser.com/questions/89266/whats-causing-all-the-disk-activity-on-os-x There are two suggestions on that thread. Either using ‘iotop -C 5 12′ or using ‘fs_usage’. What I would like to […]

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Could not load file or assembly ‘AjaxControlToolkit’ or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.

I was getting the following error message when I was trying to access a web application using the Ajax Control Toolkit on a new server: Could not load file or assembly ‘AjaxControlToolkit’ or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. Looking deeper, I found out that the error 0x80070005 was raised. Reading various threads and […]

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What process is using my disk

Sometimes when I hear my hard drive grinding, and I am not doing anything special on my Macbook Pro, I’m wondering what process is suddenly using the disk so heavily. I had been looking for a tool that would tell me what processes are causing the disk I/O’s for a while when I discovered that […]

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Showing hidden files in Finder

Sometimes, it is usefull to see hidden files in Finder. It can be achieved by issuing the following command in a shell: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE Finder has to be restarted in order for the new setting to take effect. To hide the hidden files again, relace the word TRUE by FALSE in the […]

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Front Row on secondary display

Henrik M. posted a neat solution on Apple’s discussion board to to have Front Row display video on an external monitor or TV. First, you have to get the ID of the external display using this utility: http://rapidshare.com/files/54473723/displaysInfo.zip, and then enter the following command in a shell: defaults write com.apple.frontrow FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID 12345678 where 12345678 should […]

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