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100% CPU usage caused by syslogd (Leopard)

Over the last few days I experienced a strange bug that didn’t go away even after several times of rebooting — a process called syslogd used up to 100 percent of one CPU, which means up to 50% of my computer’s processing power.
After some research, I found the following solution:
Fire up Terminal and execute [...]


Time Machine stopped working? Fix it!

I run Leopard since it came out and Time Machine worked great so far. But yesterday it stopped doing so and threw an error at me: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.
Digging around I found some tips on the topic today — including upgrading the hard disk’s firmware to [...]