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Nice commands on Macintosh to keep track of network usage.

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The Mac OSX operating system has a lot of very useful commands for keeping track of network usage. Here is a very nice one. The nettop command. As you can see, this shows a constantly updating display of network usage on Mac. This is very useful for watching network throughput in real time. Especially, if … Read more

Definition of the kernel versus the operating system. What it is and is not.

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The kernel in an operating system is the interface that handles loading drivers and configuring hardware; the operating system that runs on top of the kernel provides a usable interface; i.e a command-line or graphical user interface that the computer operator may use to interface with the computer system and give it commands that are … Read more