CPU Usage 0.4
Those of you with multiprocessor Macs may have been eagerly awaiting this, and now it’s here. CPU Usage version 0.4 makes the meter work correctly for multiple CPUs. (Obviously, actually having a multiprocessor Mac helped me test it. I went through 25 alphas back when I was on the Cube; thanks go out to my three testers for banging on those.)
The other big thing in the 0.4 release is that you can now have your CPU usage meter in the Dock tile. You can have the floater or Dock tile or both. I prefer having a floater up the right side of my screen, but if you’d rather have it in the Dock, now you have it.
March 27th, 2007 at 01:56:47
Roll on .5. Sticky windows!!! Sticky windows!!! Sticky windows!!! (any clue who suggested that feature ;) )
March 27th, 2007 at 03:36:58
Peter,
Looks great as always. Unfortunately the disk image fails to mount (unrecognized) on my iBook.
March 27th, 2007 at 08:29:50
Joshua: What version of OS X? And what’s the length in bytes of the file?
March 27th, 2007 at 09:32:31
Peter,
I’m using 10.4.9 PPC with Webkit Nightly (Safari) as my browser. For some reason when the file was downloaded a .bz suffix was appended causing my archiving software to decompress the file into some unmountable junk.
Removing the .bz suffix and mounting the .dmg everything worked fine.
Thanks for a great application!
March 27th, 2007 at 09:59:43
Ah, yes. I had .dmg bound to application/octet-stream, which prompts Safari to do content inspection to determine the type (apparently the existing filename extension isn’t good enough for it). It finds that the UDIF file is bzip2-compressed (file(1) returns the same thing), so it adds the .bz2 extension. (I also notice that it uses a 100k block size. I should see about changing it to 900k and see how much of a difference that makes.)
I’ve changed it to application/x-apple-diskimage per this unofficial page, which makes it work properly.
You’re welcome. ☺
March 27th, 2007 at 10:06:42
Well, damn. Doesn’t look like there is such a control. *adds to his massive list of bugs to file*
I’d love to be proven wrong on that.