March 2008
2 posts
Netbeans 6.1 Beta
I downloaded the latest Netbeans release last night. I’ve always like Netbeans better than Eclipse and now my major complaint with Netbeans has been solved. This thing starts up fast! The first time is came up I expected some delay since it had just been installed but it was up and running in about 6 seconds. This is easily a 4x improvement over the 6.0 version. They are also sponsoring...
Spotlight Eating Up The Processor
Noticed the other date that mds and mdworker processes were eating up my processor. Reboots didn’t seem to have any effect. Turns out that Spotlight is hung up on something. Not sure if it was related to the Leopard upgrade or to something else. I went into preferences and removed the primary hard drive from being indexed. Then rebooted and added that primary hard drive back to being...