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Microsoft is a bad girl
Feb. 16th, 2002 11:11 amCurious as to why my hard drive was in a state of continual access, clicking with a heartbeat of regularity every second or so, and in so doing draining my battery a bit faster than I'd like, I ran
"Microsoft"? Uh-oh. I installed the Office:mac demo CD yesterday (I am curious to see if writing a book in a WYSIWYG way is more pleasurable than doing it in straight DocBook XML via emacs) but I wasn't running any of its applications at the moment. So:
And thus my hard drive fell silent. More props to Apple (and/or Next): nixing the culprit is as easy as pulling up the Login system prefs pane and clicking the Login Items tab. Yes, there's the Microsoft Database Demon icon, exposed and shivering, awaiting its doom at my fingertips. I just wish there was a system-level thingy that notified me when a program sticks things there; if the demon didn't cause so much real-world noise, I probably wouldn't have noticed its presence for a long time.
My LiveJournal is definitely getting geekier, especially since I took up this latest project. I apologize if I am putting anyone to sleep, but I fear that it's only going to get worse. I should consider dusting off my O'Reilllynet blog and shunting these sorts of posts there, before I start losing Friends.
top and saw this:PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 337 top 8.9% 0:02.19 1 19 14 196K 320K 436K 1.37M 336 Internet E 0.0% 0:43.90 8 99 157 8.15M 12.6M 14.8M 64.4M 335 LiveJourna 0.0% 0:03.66 3 95 97 2.24M 7.20M 5.67M 52.9M 334 Mail 0.0% 0:26.00 8 117 118 3.16M 8.08M 7.74M 55.7M 332 ssh 0.0% 0:00.10 1 9 19 432K 488K 568K 1.88M 323 zsh 0.0% 0:00.15 1 16 13 184K 700K 708K 1.69M 322 Terminal 0.0% 0:03.18 5 112 140 2.11M 6.72M 4.52M 55.0M 321 Microsoft 0.0% 0:04.76 1 56 76 1.73M 9.26M 3.64M 50.2M
"Microsoft"? Uh-oh. I installed the Office:mac demo CD yesterday (I am curious to see if writing a book in a WYSIWYG way is more pleasurable than doing it in straight DocBook XML via emacs) but I wasn't running any of its applications at the moment. So:
[jmac@endif /Users/jmac]% ps awux | grep 321 jmac 321 0.0 1.4 51428 3732 ?? S 0:04.76 /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon /Applica [jmac@endif /Users/jmac]% kill 321
And thus my hard drive fell silent. More props to Apple (and/or Next): nixing the culprit is as easy as pulling up the Login system prefs pane and clicking the Login Items tab. Yes, there's the Microsoft Database Demon icon, exposed and shivering, awaiting its doom at my fingertips. I just wish there was a system-level thingy that notified me when a program sticks things there; if the demon didn't cause so much real-world noise, I probably wouldn't have noticed its presence for a long time.
My LiveJournal is definitely getting geekier, especially since I took up this latest project. I apologize if I am putting anyone to sleep, but I fear that it's only going to get worse. I should consider dusting off my O'Reilllynet blog and shunting these sorts of posts there, before I start losing Friends.