Category Archives: General

A Little Case in Statistical Bias

19th
Mar. × ’09
By Mark Bao
Although I’ve expressed approval for the new Facebook redesign, it’s obvious that many, many people hate it. If you’ve been on the new Facebook for more than a few milliseconds, you would have figured this out. Let’s analyse this disapproval. Firstly, every single Facebook redesign or new feature, since it went mainstream, has been criticised by [...]
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Mac OS X: Fix High CPU Usage by syslogd

24th
May. × ’08
By Mark Bao
Recently, I’ve been experiencing a high CPU usage by the process syslogd in Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, coupled with strange Console.app behavior. If you’re experiencing this as well, give this a shot and see if it works (at your own risk.) FIrst, you should check if this is a problem on your system, which is [...]
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