I got home today and woke up my pc from hibernate. I always have Process Explorer running in my task bar, so as I was waiting for Firefox to start up, I noticed that my CPU was pinned at about 70% usage, it wasn’t Firefox. It was VMware-authd.exe. I do have VMWare installed but I have not touched it on this machine for years.
Being concerned I turned to the all-knowing Googe. The answer came in the form of a blog post by Christopher Miller, who suffered the exact same issue.
Here is his post, hope this helps other VMWare users out there:
I was doing some work on one of my PC’s and I had the processes list open in Task Manager. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that one process, VMware-authd.exe, was going from 0 to 10% of the CPU. I didn’t know what that process did, I went out on a limb and assumed that it was somehow related to VMWare. VMware is one of my favorite tools, but I wasn’t running any VMWare sessions. Time to go Googling. Apparently it’s a service that provides administrator priviledges to to a running VMWare session if the host use isn’t logged in with administrator access rights
If you are logged in with admin rights, you don’t need to have this service running. VMware-authd.exe is the name of the executable for the "VMware Authorization Service" service. You can go into Services and shut that service down and then set it’s startup type to "manual". There are no other services that depend on that service to be running. You can also stop the service from the Windows command line with the following:
net stop VMAuthdService
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Get an email like this: your-name@your-domain.com with Google Apps
If you run a business, or if you have ever switched ISPs, then you know how valuable it can be to retain your email address. Connecting a mailbox with a domain that you own will enable to keep the same email address even if you switch ISPs or your email service providers.
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Interesting Email, Google, Software As Service
District 9 Prawn vs Dr. Zoidberg
District 9 Prawn vs Dr. Zoidberg
Just saw District 9. Excellent movie. I will not write a review as other people are far better at doing that. Even people who are not into Science Fiction movies liked it. I just can’t get over the fact that the aliens remind me too much of Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama. 
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"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it’s finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you’ve created. It has an abstract shape in your head that’s completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus- de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe’s head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer." – Nick Foster ("Life as a programmer")
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Hi everyone,
A friend of I sent this picture to me today morning, and I didn’t resist to publish it.
It’s awesome!!!!!
Enjoy the view 
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I took my Giant XTC 1 out for another ride this weekend. I rode north along the trails starting from Orchard Heights Park in Etobicoke-Toronto. The trail begins right under the bridge of the Gardiner Expressway. It rides along The West Mall all the way up to Dundas. Unfortunately that is where it ends. It is short (two or three kilometres), but some parts are challenging enough to make you want to go back again.
I used my new favorite panoramic stitching program AutoStitch to create these panoramic photos. Feel free to click and see a larger version of them.
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The following was taken from Tech Radar. Since I found this useful I am mirroring the post here for my own reference (and others).
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Why does a huge country like Canada not have a highway similar to the German Autobahn?
A little History of speed limits in Canada; on February 7, 1975 Canada imposed a 55 mph speed limit. In 1973, reacting to the ban of oil sales to the United States and other Western countries by 11 Arab oil producers, President Richard Nixon lowered the U.S. speed limit to 55 mph in hopes of conserving gasoline. An addition to a greater reserve of oil, a by-product of the mandate turned out to be a lower rate of highway automobile fatalities. Two years later, Canada followed suit in hopes of lowering their own rate of highway fatalities.
Today we can buy cars that are capable of well over 150 Km/Hr. In Ontario the fastest speed you can drive is 100 Km/Hr which is on our 400-series highways. Even so, everyone still drives at around 120 Km/Hr. It is not uncommon to see many driving at 140 Km/Hr. Under our current law, police have every right to pull these people over. However driving at 120 Km/Hr the police generally do not bother them. For this reason I see 120 Km/Hr the unofficial speed limit. Recently though, a new law has been passed that will have the driver’s licence suspended and vehicle impounded if they exceed 50 Km/Hr over the speed limit on any road. I would agree with that for cities and rural areas. In fact I would make it 30 over the limit in those areas. But on the 400 series Highways, the speed limit should have been increased instead. Like in the Gazette article, the problem with speed limits is that they are too low.
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What are “Z rated” Tires?
While a Z-speed rating still often appears in the tire size designation of these tires, such as 225/50ZR16 91W, the Z in the size signifies a maximum speed capability in excess of 149 mph, 240 km/h; the W in the service description indicates the tire’s 168 mph, 270 km/h maximum speed.
Each tire has a letter rating to determine the top speed a tire can reach, before losing traction. The chart is as follows:
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This is my first post on NoobTech’s blog and I going to say a little bit of me: I’m from Brazil and I have been living in Canada for 10 months… that’s enough
I’m the guy who have influenced Rob to buy the bike, my friends in Brazil used to calm me “bike maniac”, because I used to go every were riding my bike, including dating
So, a few days ago me and Rob decided to go biking – we couldn’t wait for the warm weather, it was nine degrees – , and we have found just mud, mud, and mud…
We rode across the Etobicoke River, although, at the end of the trail our bikes was weighing two times more.
Photos are too bad quality because I forgot my cam and I had to use my cellphone, anyways it’s better than nothing 
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