Whats this

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 22 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Thursday 21 January 2010 22:32:39 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > just noticed an icon in the system tray. I have no idea what
> > > it is. There's no indication when hovering and nothing
> > > happens when I click on it. Pic attached.
> > 
> > Last time I checked (before I uninstalled it), the thing had a
> > tooltip that was pretty self-explanatory...
> 
> Oh yes - now it has a tool-tip saying "Loading cache". I wonder
> what cache and why?

Mark Greenwood's reply has a clue to that: it's the package cache and 
it does it to find out whether there are any updates available it can 
annoy you with...

  --Reinhold