From Twitter 12-17-2010

• 00:06:42: RT @dhruv_dhody wondering how stalking use to work without facebook and twitter? << they did actual legwork!!
  
• 11:06:58: Oh what a good boy is John... RT DentonPolice 12/17/2010 03:26 | 19 yo | CONSUMPTION OF ALCOH http://twitpic.com/3got77
  
• 11:21:18: Looks like the alcohol won, John... RT DentonPolice 12/17/2010 03:26 | 19 yo | CONSUMPTION OF ALCOH http://twitpic.com/3gp4id
  
• 11:22:18: RT @citygay: Spotted an Ambulance, 2 paramedic motorbikes & police car outside Pleasuredrome this AM on my walk to work. Dread to think why.
  
• 18:30:50: I've been remiss today. Had a nice lunch, blogged about Bishop @nickbaines and made cold sesame noodles for dinner. Catching up w #FB now...
  
• 20:55:56: Gotta do my Augustine translation (it's a day late already) and then write my sermon, which is already in my head & just needs transcribing.
  

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Today's Video

The vicar may be camp, and not attired in the proper vestments for preaching, but the message, surprisingly, is valid no matter how camp he is.

This Christmas think about not what you want, but what you need. And chillax.

CHKDSK dilemma in Vista

All you Linux-heads and Mac-heads, you may go to the next post now. Nothing to see here, move right along...

For all you who remain, I've got a nagging problem that is driving me rather around the bend. Background: I have a Dell server (which I use for a workstation), with a RAID array (I believe it's RAID 0), running Windows Vista, patched up to date. What is bothering me is this: I keep the computer on 24/7, but of course it occasionally hangs or needs rebooting for various other reasons such as updating. When I reboot, most often than not the machine wants to run CHKDSK before starting up again. When it does, it invariably says that there is a problem with the file gameuxmig.dll. It fixes the problem, then reboots, and service goes on normally until the next reboot.

I have AVG Anti-Virus Free, latest version, and XoftSpy XE, also latest version, both with malware files up to date. Neither of them has caught any viruses on my machine.

I thus decided to Google "gameuxmig.dll" to see whether there was any information on what kind of file it was. There are a shedload of references, but most of them seem to trace back to anti-virus sites that may or may not be legit (as I don't recognise them), so I refrain from following the links.

I also tried to google CHKDSK to see whether there were any online pages I could visit to learn about how it works and what the various error messages it throws mean. No luck there, either. I got lots of Q&A sites, where if you pay for guidance, or trawl through hundreds of questions from the clueless, you might find what you need to know. I did not get any useful sites.

My question to you, dear techie friends (or friends of dear techie friends) is this: What is gameuxmig.dll? Where does it come from (I think it's part of Windows, but can't be sure)? What does it do? And why does it always go wrong on the disk and have to be corrected by CHKDSK?

I may try Bing, or Yahoo!, or some other search engine to see whether they give any further useful information. And, as for CHKDSK, I went into the Windows technical pages and looked for technical information about what CHKDSK does and what the messages it turns up mean. No dice there either.

Wit's end, here…any references, steer to references, or suggestions for more useful search terms gratefully received.