October 12, 2004
Dfek
Posted by bopuc at October 12, 2004 03:06 AM
This photo caused me much trouble today.
My Powerbook has had a fever for about a week. The whole area around the power input and the CPU were flaming hot and the fans were on fulltime. This afternoon I decided to investigate...
The truly odd thing was that if I logged in as another, freshly created user, everything was fine. No overcycling of the CPU, no heat, no fans. As Joi said: "must be some process you are running..."
So I compared the ps -auwx output of both users (myself and the fresh one). I pared down mine to the point of it being identical to the other's. Yet, logging in as myself started up the fans.
I downloaded an application that displays the temperature the 4 thermostats built into this machine are tracking. I was hitting 60° C around the CPU! Ouch! I needed to see what the hell was cycling the CPU so much! Thanks to Adriaan for reminding me OS X ships with "Activity Monitor". We were on the road to discovery at this point.
Pow! Finder is sucking 95% CPU resources!! What the hell is going on here? (Keep in mind I had rebooted multiple times by this time, reset PRAM, flushed all my caches, done all the regular maintenance tasks...)
So in Activity Montior, I "inspect" the Finder. Nothing outstanding... until I hit the "Open Files" pane. A short list of very "systemy"looking files but there at the end... what da? "~/Desktop/IMG2345.JPG". I go check what that is. It's this picture. All three megs of it.
I quickly renamed it and voilą. Finder immediatly drops back down to 0.00% CPU use. A minute later the fans stop.
The only explanation is that when i had first pulled the picture off my camera and viewed it in Preview, I had rotated it to take a look and then closed it without saving. This caused some kind of snafu. The proof that something went wrong in this is that when I opened it in Photoshop today, it was rotated, but not in Preview.
Strangeness.
Comments
Clearly a "camera-borne" virus. What else would you expect from graffiti signed by "Dfek"...
Posted by: Adriaan at October 12, 2004 03:18 AM
props 4 your "unix nerd sleuthy ways" ! ;-)
Posted by: steve at October 12, 2004 09:45 AM
more on the topic ..
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=87445&st=0
and in this post ...
Posted by: steve at October 13, 2004 09:32 AM
what the hell are you talking about?????i'm kinda glad my wall fucked your camera up....makes more sence to the name ya know.....
Posted by: dfek at November 21, 2004 11:43 AM
dcae is the man!!!
Posted by: panda at April 13, 2005 12:22 AM
Hi I'm a UK Hip Hop DJ and producer from The FoulMouth Crew check the URL. I was wondering if i could use your DFEK stencil as a logo. It would be much appriciated and if your every in London i could show you some sick bombing spots. Let me know.
Posted by: Dj Dfek at February 13, 2006 11:16 AM
no you can't ...come up with your own shit....i you want i'll make you one but you'll have to pay for it...
Posted by: dfek at April 27, 2007 09:19 AM