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I keep noticing my laptop's fan running when it is idle and Task Manager always shows practically nothing running. But cumulative CPU time shows a different sto...

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While using my credit card to rent a car I ran into this cursed PIN entry screen. Do you see the problem?

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Sectigo sent me four emails this morning warning me that code signing certificate validity is dropping from 3 years to 15 months and offering to renew mine befo...

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Google: AI will take over the world

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I am currently on an extended vacation in Mexico. I'm in a small walkable town so I don't have a car. This is good.

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I am currently on an extended vacation in Mexico. I'm in a small walkable town so I don't have a car. This is good.

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I am currently on an extended vacation in Mexico. I'm in a small walkable town so I don't have a car. This is good.

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4.5 years ago I blogged that in the WPA Handles view "In addition to having the [Lifetime] column off by default they actually hide it!", but that's okay becaus...

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Another day, another Intel monitoring process that is consuming significant CPU time. This time I have esrv_svc.exe using 4% of a CPU core on an otherwise idle ...

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FFS Intel. In a recent test (mostly four minutes of watching a youtube video) Intel's PresentMonService.exe used the most CPU time of any process on my laptop

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I have a lot of Windows .bat scripts which rely on this extremely obvious pattern:

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FFS. Am I wrong to think that if 10% of CPU usage in the system process is going to releasing a lock then maybe something has gone wrong and the locking/work ra...

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As an experiment I bought a continuous glucose monitor (FreeStyle Libre 2) and wore it for two weeks. The device is amazing, the data is fascinating, but the ex...

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I took my new 12x image-stabilizing binoculars on vacation and as the moon and Jupiter were rising I had the chance to share them with some non-astronomical fri...

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Ideally as you read a post or article you should be learning more information but I am surprised by how frequently it turns out that the extra words consumed tu...

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Nine years ago I lost all hearing in my right ear. My balance was also messed up for a while but I adapted to losing half of my vestibular system.

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Sometime this year Google Maps started confidently showing the current location incorrectly. Testing suggests that it falls back to using Wi-Fi for locations (c...

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The list of desktop apps on my Windows 11 machine that have accessed my location reveals a couple of interesting details. First, the presence of "COM Surrogate"...

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Which files Visual Studio?!? Which files am "I" trying to edit as you upgrade my project? How am I supposed to check them out of Perforce or make other intellig...

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When I notice the fan on my new laptop running I often bring up Task Manager to find out why. It often shows no obvious culprit so I grab an ETW trace.

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