* Gearhead: Analyzing Deferred Procedure Calls * Backspin: Look out! It’s FrankenSCO! * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Analyzing Deferred Procedure Calls
Faithful readers will know I’m still on the hunt for what is causing Deferred Procedure Calls to drive wild swings in processor utilization on my Windows XP machine. I rebooted the box but the DPC utilization of around 40% returned for most of Tuesday and lasted through to Wednesday when it magically settled back down to around 2%.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Look out! It’s FrankenSCO!
This is a real Halloween story: A few weeks ago the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) looked like a zombie. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection on Sept. 14, one month after a federal district court judge ruled that SCO wasn’t the owner of the Unix operating-system copyrights that the company had used as the basis for litigation and extortion.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Fixing the Small Time Spammers
OK, here’s a question: What do you do when an ostensibly professional company keeps spamming you and you have politely asked them to stop and they don’t? When it appears that they simply can’t be bothered to remove you from their list?
Deaf Leopard Developers and the Wisdom of a Crowd of Users
(That title amused me far more than it should have … that’s the kind of day I’m having). So, what was I going to write about? Oh yeah: I just read a review of Apple’s OS X Leopard release and, well, ‘disappointing’ is how the new user interface sounds.
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