{"id":1417,"date":"2010-01-19T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2777"},"modified":"2010-05-08T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T13:01:02","slug":"re-developments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/re-developments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

If any of you still read this after nearly 50 days without posting, I’ve been tempted to do this:<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/center>Click on the comic to see the original at http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tech-fun\/internet-cant-ignoere-grammar\/<\/a> (via http:\/\/www.halfapixelshort.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\nIn other news, my trusty but overloaded MacBook Air proved unable to cope with serious developing (or even the usual mixture of stuff I do when procrastinating<\/strike> working on other things). Less than half an hour (often much less) after I connect to the Internet over either USB\/Ethernet or WiFi, connect an external USB drive, an external monitor, or whatnot – much less all of these at once – the fan turns to full blast and soon thereafter the dreaded “kerneltask” begins to use 99% of both CPU cores, slowing typing and even mousing to a crawl.<\/p>\n

\nClosing the Air for 10 to 20 minutes usually but not always allows resuming work for another short time, but sometimes a reboot is necessary. Must be global warming \"icon_cry.gif\"<\/p>\n

\nAnyway, my new iMac 27″ quad-core i5 with 8GB of RAM (squeee!!!) is due to arrive tonight and all should be back to normal Real Soon Now?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If any of you still read this after nearly 50 days without posting, I’ve been tempted to do this: Click on the comic to see the original at http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tech-fun\/internet-cant-ignoere-grammar\/ (via http:\/\/www.halfapixelshort.com\/). In other news, my trusty but overloaded MacBook Air proved unable to cope with serious developing (or even the usual mixture of stuff I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[24,23],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-meta","tag-comics","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}