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Svchost hogging yer cpu

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In case you’re using Windows (or Microsoft) Update, you’ll probably have noticed that your PC sometimes grinds to a halt after bootup. Checking with task manager usually reveals that svchost.exe is abusing your CPU, pegging it at 100%.

Gallery-Remote

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I was trying to get GalleryRemote installed today on my Linux installation (because for obscure reasons, using the java applet in gallery directly crashes my browsers), which wouldn’t run. Attempting to run the installer gave obscure errors like: awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dirname: error while loading shared li...

Work-event: Karting!

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Today we went Karting with work in Brussels Kart, a karting / expo / restaurant thing in Groot-bijgaarden (just outside of Brussels).

Birds, little birds!

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We’ve (well, my parents really) have had some Zebra Finches for a while. They never really did any real breeding, but last time they seemed more serious about the matter. And yes, we got ourselfs some little birds!

Installing X11 on Mac OS X

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I’ve been trying for a while to get the Apple X11 installed on Mac OS X. I just couldn’t figure out how.