Laptop! Be healed! (part 2)…not this too!
Posted on February 6, 2009
Filed Under A Geek's Guide to the Scriptures, My Paper Jesus | Leave a Comment
Whoa!! what in the … world!
There I sat, working on my PMP class, trying to ignore the lousy display/text issue, when I noticed my Macbook Pro’s fans. Hmmm… that’s odd. Why can I hear them? Are they speeding up? Sure enough, according to iStat pro, their RPMs were climbing. Then rather suddenly, the little beasties got so loud that the laptop resembled a jump-jet attempting to lift off from my desk! The CPU heat climbed dramatically, utilization pegged–and stayed there! And I wasn’t running anything! Honest!
In the midst of all this, the operating system froze up. I had to do a forced shutdown. When I powered it back up, it went right back into crazy-mode again! I was able to do some quick analysis and noticed that the mdimportserver was acting like a demon, virtually possessing the entire computer (it’s CPU utilization was 98%).
I shut the laptop off again, went to another computer and called upon the greatest sage of our time for help (Google) and found… a solution. Yes! Rebuild the Spotlight database and all will be hunky dory again. Sure enough, that solved the problem.
Oh, and by the way, in the midst of all this, you would have been so proud of my demeanor. Calm, at peace, knowing that God is in control, that He cares about my eternity and that trials like this are good for me…. NOT!!
Man, was I fuming, and mad and … well, you would think that after the way things turned out yesterday I would be better at slaying the dragon within, but nooOOooOoo.. Oh, man. It was bad. I said in my last article that the dragon never really goes away; he just looks for a new opportunity (that is to say, I’m still quite capable of reverting back to my old self). I meant it, but I didn’t really believe it.
When it was all over I felt pretty stupid for how I reacted. You would think by the way I felt during this little “crisis,” that I truly had abandoned all hope. After all, I was sure that this must be related to the logic board issue, that my laptop is about to do a China Syndrome on me, that God has abandoned me and doomed me to computer h-e-double toothpicks. Once again, a classic case of my head knowledge failing me. When my Paper Jesus gets dinged by little trials like this, that’s when I revert back to being a dragon.
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