A co-worker really scares me at times. During a test, I noticed a rogue process was hogging a lot of CPU cycles. I shared it with Gary.
“I never check my CPU utilization,“ he said as he pulled up the Windows task Manager (Ctrl-Shift ESC). “Wow, it’s almost at 100%.”
“What in the world are you doing?” I ran over to check it out.
“Oh yeah,” he says, “It is that background process.”
Again, what in the world? He told me about this Stanford project with such fervent admiration I thought I was going to be sick. “Now, why are you doing this?”
He smiled. “To help mankind.”
Fair enough I suppose, but I think I’d lend my excess CPU cycles to Pixar before I would do this. I guess I just don’t trust those things even if they can help mankind.
Posted by Michael at November 25, 2003 07:59 PM