Mac on Jim Deibele's Blog

Apple show me the deleted messages

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:28:54 +0000

Are you diligent about deleting messages? I am, and it causes me grief when I try to find out what a message says.

Look at this:

Recent deleted messages. Which one do I want?

To see what a deleted message says, I have to recover it. It’s no fun doing that once, let alone a few times if you guess wrong.

C’mon, Apple. Fix this.

Ping Logger to monitor when internet is down

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:58:32 +0000

We have Ziply (formerly Frontier, formerly GTE) fiber at home and the other day I noticed that the internet wasn’t reachable. The eero app said the internet was down.

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Internet down in eero app

I checked the box (Optical Network Terminal) in the box and it showed green.

{#id}

After another minute or so, the connection resumed.

I don’t know how often this happens so I decided to monitor the internet connection from a server that’s running 24/7.

Namebench for the win! Bad DNS makes my mac slow

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:00:10 -0700

Really bad performance on my MacBook has been driving me up the wall the past few days. Closing all un-needed programs didn’t help. I ran several Mac utilities on my system, rebooted and so on and so forth.

Still no good.

There’s 8GB of RAM in my (latest model - fall 2010) white MacBook and that really sped things up when it replaced the stock 2GB. It was very frustrating.