Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Macbook Pro heats up and shuts down after the updates to 10.9.x

At times I think why?
Why did I decide to upgrade the OS. It was cool with 10.8.x. I even had upgraded the RAM: from 4 GB to 8GB, thereby leaving plenty of 'em for spare RAM (without needing to download more RAM.. wink wink).
One evening I saw that there were more than 5 GB of RAM consistently being not used. So, I thought may be going for 10.9 will be OK. Bad decision. I think Mars eclipse was happening at the time when I made that decision.

Fast forward now:
Now and then it restarts. I think it is due to overheating. I opened up the back cover to see if the fan thingy is OK. There are two fans, and both are spinning fine.
Not sure why!!

Well, my preliminary assessment is that it is that indexing service that is using my CPU go crazy::: thereby causing the heating.  When it is not indexing, it is not that heated even with my heavy lifting programs running.

So, next time it starts indexing, I need to either kill it. Or, let it do its business till finished, without adding load. But that kinda reminds me of my windows machine which needed to be left for updating the virus/adobe/other updates. Not good feeling!!!
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Satyamev Jayte: "not available in your country"

I fail to watch it in a straightforward manner.

Thank you starplus.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

BloggerDai ko Facebook page: press L

I had spent some of my time designing the welcome page for BloggerDai page in facebook.

Only to find that facebook was rolling out the timeline feature for pages. So, I ranted a little in twitter... and then of course! changed my page layout. I like this new feature for pages, because it makes sense. It is more friendly for bloggers. Some may disagree! :P

Please visit my new page here ...
http://www.facebook.com/bloggerdai
Current page header with pictures of a cat from internet; and saturn as captured by Cassini spacecraft on 15 September, 2006

The first cover photo was a rant to self: stand up, do some stretching. I suggest 8 fold stretching as shown in the figure.
The noodle with sausage is a recipe for easy snacks. The post is here 
Previously, I had to use either FBML (static: outdated now) or use app to create facebook pages. It was kinda nice that people would just land on the welcome page. Many brands used a force-"like us" feature. For example: amazon had forced "like us" feature to run many "sweepstakes".  I wonder if it will be the same!
  
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Whats in the Name? Google+ swings hammer

Blogger Dai's G+ profile is going to go.
Few days ago aakar also had similar arguments about why google is biased in peculiar way to names.
This week, I also witnessed GrrlScientist's G+ profile being snatched and suspended...and her rants in twitter.

If you have a pet name in blog-o-sphere, forget about getting into G+ circle: Not cool! 
Stay in facebook, or twitter or whatever.

 I can hear the other side: if you want to remain anonymous... why on earth do you need profile?
I do not know.
One day google will claim that all the blogger profiles should be merged to G+ profile.  Then there will be a lot more friction.