Evolution 2.6.1 had been driving me mad recently – every few minutes, CPU utilization would go up to 100% for about 20 seconds, slowing down everything in my system, and then go back to normal. Today I found the cause: I had enabled “Periodically synchronize contact information and images from gaim buddy list” (in Mail [...]
Entries from June 2006
Big Spanish Castle: nice optical illusion. (0)
Eliminating excessive CPU usage in Evolution
June 16th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Linux · Tips & tricks
Two possibly useful sites for upcoming flights: http://www.lovemyseat.com/ and http://www.seatguru.com/ (0)
Fixing a corrupt HFS+ filesystem in Linux (HOWTO)
June 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Some time ago I switched my server (a G4 Mac) from MacOSX to Gentoo Linux. In the process, the secondary internal disk (where I keep the mail storage, among other things) remained formatted as HFS+, because it made the transition easier. However, I kept having problems with it. For example, if the machine shut down [...]