Bruce "86 47" Dawson

@randomascii.bsky.social

1967 Followers 145 Following

Retired tech-nerd. Unicyclist, kiteboarder, juggler, hiker, plays tennis and pickleball, advocates for pedestrian/cyclist safety. Windows ETW expert. LGBTQ supporter. Vancouver, BC he/him https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

A "Close" tooltip floating above everything else on a Windows desktop
Output of FindZombieHandles.exe showing 505 zombies held by HPPrintScanDoctorService.exe, 102 zombies held by HP.ContextAware.exe, 4 zombies held by SysInfoCap.exe, and 3 zombies held by HPSystemEventUtilityBackground.exe (plus a few others)
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Screenshot of a Google account permission dialog saying: When you allow this access, OneCause Peer to Peer will be able to See and download your contacts. See access details
Four bsky notifications in a row showing a total of 67 new followers
An elevator panel with "G" on the left side of the second row from the bottom (and 2-9 above that)
Google maps directions for a subway transfer in Toronto. The circled text says "Walk, then wait for up to 1447 min"
Screenshot of a captive portal at YVR (Vancouver Airport) saying "This email address is invalid"
A foot is smashing a printer in a field - the iconic printer smashing scene from Office Space
It's an old-school credit card reader - "cha-chunk" is the sound they make as the imprint onto carbon paper
Canadian flag on the slope of Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, with a freeway full of cars in the foreground
Seen at the Vancouver Planetarium, a computer running an audio-visual display and in the lower right hand corner it says: Activate Windows Go to PC Setting to activate Windows
This is a picture of a sign on a company's window. It says: Securiguard We make people feel safe
Screenshot of emergency alert history from my phone. The most recent emergency alert was May 11 at 12:58 a.m. and covered all of British Columbia
A picture of a "bookshelf" with "books" on it that are actually just empty cardboard boxes. Four of them say they are "Les Miserables". Two mysterious books say "Radio Astronomer, Lives in the country somewhere, Be honest rather clever"
Screenshot of Microsoft's Update settings after going through Advanced Options-> Optional updates -> Driver updates. It says: Driver updates (3) If you have a specific problem, one of these drivers might help. Otherwise, automatic updates will keep your drivers up to date.
A series of text messages welcoming me to Mexico, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand (again), and China
Screenshot of a "security verification" interstitial. It says: thewaroncars.org Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page... not a bot Verifying - Cloudflare
Update-available notifications from Intel Driver & Support Assistant (2) _and_ from Intel Graphics Software (7)
86 47, spelled in seashells
A man (me!) stands in front of angel wings that are on the glass behind me. The city of Hanoi is stretched out behind
Screenshot of a restaurant website that mostly just contains text like "We Will Write a Headline Highlighting Your Business Offerings Here Call to Action"
Garmin's heart-rate history when there is no internet connection. On this page it doesn't even show my current heart rate, and certainly nothing from earlier today
Windows dialog showing that Intel Graphics Software Background Processor hit an unknown software exception - it crashed
Intel Graphics Software screenshot claiming that the driver version is stuck at 32.0.101.5542, since Jun 8, 2024.
Intel driver install history showing that the last two attempts failed
Video of a Hyundai instrument panel with lots of flashing lights
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--------------------------- Intel® Graphics Software Background Processor: IntelGraphicsSoftware.exe - Application Error --------------------------- The exception unknown software exception (0xe0434352) occurred in the application at location 0x00007FFE74DFA80A.
Task Manager Details view sorted by (cumulative) CPU time consumed. Ignoring the idle process the biggest consumers, from highest to lowest, are: System dwm.exe quick-look.exe MsMpEng.exe SurSvc.exe IntelGraphicsSoftware.exe chrome.exe (GPU process) svchost.exe (Capability Access Manager Service) chrome.exe (browser process) explorer.exe csrss.exe svchost.exe (DNS Client)
PIN entry screen with the numbers in the order 1, 7, 5, 9, 3, 8, 0, 4, 6, 2
CPU Usage (Precise) screenshot from WPA showing Intel's PresentMonService.exe using 34.959 s of CPU time while the busiest chrome.exe process uses just 21.365 s.
Screenshot of the Libre 2 app showing a 7-day summary of average glucose levels. There are eight unlabeled bars.
CPU Usage (Sampled) WPA screenshot showing about 10% of System process CPU time going to releasing a lock in the page-zeroing threads.
Google Maps screenshot confidently showing the current location as YYZ (Toronto Pearson International Airport)
Screenshot from Windows 11 Settings: Privacy & security > Location "Desktop apps that have previously accessed your location are listed here COM Surrogate Last accessed 2025-12-21 : 10:17:22 PM Google Chrome Last accessed 2025-12-09 : 6:08:03 PM Microsoft Edge Last accessed 2025-12-26 | 11:54:34 AM
Screenshot: Microsoft Visual Studio Source Control - Git You are trying to edit read-only files. Do you want to mark these files as writable?
calendar.google.com wants to Look for and connect to any device on your local network
WPA Screenshot showing Installer.exe (from Intel) and PresentMonService.exe (from Intel) using 10.250 s and 2.051 s respectively, over the course of 14.371 s.
WPA's CPU Usage (Precise) Timeline by CPU showing all CPU's equally busy except for the mostly idle 10-13 and 20-21
Windows 11 start menu with "visual" as the search term. The results are Visual Studio Installer, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio 2022
Screenshot of partial of the Visual Studio 2026 installer saying "Total space required 24.02 GB"
Screenshot saying "Like us on" listing Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn. But not BlueSky
Visual C++ error output saying, repeatedly, "precompiled header file is from a different version of the compiler, or the precompiled header is C++ and you are using it from C (or vice versa)"
WPA screenshot showing Chrome's threads. There are multiple ThreadPoolForegroundWorker threads and multiple ThreadPoolBackgroundWorker threads
A picture of a computer screen saying: PaxInject Proxy Running.. Baudrate 1200 Data bits 7 Parity Check even Stop Bits 1 Comm Mode UART
Reposting the screenshot without it being a pixelated mess for some reason. WPA screenshot showing dwm.exe thread names such as "uDWM Event Thread" and "0xdd100002".
WPA screenshot showing dwm.exe thread names such as "uDWM Event Thread" and "0xdd100002".
CPU Usage (Precise) graph from WPA showing PDR.exe using 1.08% of CPU time (3.535 CPU seconds)
Screenshot of CyberLink PowerDirector 365 New Project screen, doing nothing
A unicorn wearing a dress riding a shark sledding down a volcano. Mount Saint Helens specifically. Mother's day 2015
Compatible Sensors Web page not available The web page at http://www.freestylelibre.com/ could not be loaded because: net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED
404 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.
Screenshot from Abbot Diabetes Care Inc.'s Libre 2 app, saying: Compatibility of your phone's operating system with this app has NOT been confirmed. Some app features (such as glucose alarms) MAY not be supported. Refer to the Compatibility Guide for the latest list of confirmed phones and operating systems.
A pair of photos in Google photos. They are identical except that the left one is flat gray on the bottom half, presumably due to file corruption
Six build errors all saying: LNK1000: unknown error at 00007FF7F5BDB899; consult documentation for technical support options
Output from FindZombieHandles showing 147 vcpkgsrv.exe zombies held by devenv.exe C:\src\github\blogstuff\FindZombieHandles\prebuilt>FindZombieHandles.exe 320 total zombie processes. 152 total zombie threads. 147 zombies held by devenv.exe(19104) 146 zombies of vcpkgsrv.exe - process handle count: 146 - thread handle count: 0 1 zombie of PerfWatson2.exe - process handle count: 1 - thread handle count: 1 98 zombies held by TouchpointAnalyticsClientService.exe(38020) 98 zombies of ProcInfo.exe - process handle count: 98 - thread handle count: 98 35 zombies held by HPPrintScanDoctorService.exe(9016) 35 zombies of HPSUPD-Win32Exe.exe - process handle count: 35 - thread handle count: 35 15 zombies held by SysInfoCap.exe(4592) 15 zombies of BridgeCommunication.exe - process handle count: 17 - thread handle count: 15 5 zombies held by svchost.exe(13332)
The word "raspberry" has two 'a's. The first is in "ras" and the second is in "berry". The AI overview then hallucinates some more, unbidden. Sigh...