Epilogue to the computer video problem I was having: The new hdmi cable predictably did nothing. So I was going to install the other video adapter I had. But the huge heat sink it's got wouldn't fit in the new box, which is a slim-line case. Sigh. So I found a good price on another adapter that had a smaller heat sink and came with a bracket to fit in a slim case. Awesome. That showed up yesterday...and the bracket for the slim case mounts 180 degrees from the way I need it to mount to fit in this case :mad: So I just installed it without the bracket. Not ideal, but it works. And the problem I was having is solved. Hooray.

Meanwhile...

Twitter is doing weird sh*t to me.

Every 4th or 5th time I load the home page, there's a bunch of random crap in the timeline from people I don't follow (most often it seems to be a bunch of Spanish-language soccer related stuff, but I've also seen random celeb account sh*t like snooki, KimKardashian, JustiBieber show up). They are not retweets from people I am following, they go away if I refresh the page, and I don't see them from my mobile app, just the home page from a web browser (both firefox and IE).

This is a screenshot, the last few tweets you can see on the bottom are supposed to be there, everything above that is crap, and went away after I refreshed the page.

Really annoying.

Felicia Day tweeted something similar earlier today about random stuff in her timeline. Haven't seen it myself but must be a Twitter bug.

Twitter was down for a while, now it's back and it doesn't seem to be happening anymore. I guess Felicia Day and I have some pull.

So it's doing it again. Seems I have 93 process's going on. Any idea how to weed these?

Like Moonie said, click on the "CPU" column in task manager. It will give you a continual update of what process is using the most CPU at any moment. Watch it for a while and see if you can spot a particular process or two that regularly pops to the top of the list (other than the "System Idle Process" which goes to the top when nothing is using the processor).

I have this speaker system. The right rear speaker is broken (clip to hold the speaker wires in place snapped. I cannot find a replacement for the exact model. However, I found this speaker that looks identical.

Question is: will it work?

While I can't be 100% certain, I feel 99% certain that it will work. There is nothing spcial about either one that would be a barrier to success.

Thanks. That is what I was seeing as well. The system is old and nothing fancy either. I think the difference in the two models are in the receiver since all the speakers look the same.

Or you could just get a pair of these

Okay, I just got this second email and need to check.

Last week I received an email with the subject of "For Kevin" and the name that showed as the sender was my sister. The body of the email said "Hey Kevin" and included a link. Stupid me clicked the link and it was just a spam of course (I have run one virus scan and am running another right now to confirm). The email address from last week was a Yahoo address that I do not know.

I received a second email today with the same basic format (showing as coming from a friend, but with a Yahoo UK email address). Since this is now the second one, I am wondering if I am infected somehow that isn't showing up on scans. The reason I am wondering about this is that it is showing as coming from people I know.

DSLExtreme (the email account this is coming through) uses GMail as the email service, but I do not keep an address book online (and the names are being populated before it arrives in my inbox).

Any ideas out there?