Postings in August 2011
Fantasy Film Fest 2011: A lonely place to die
This movie was nerve-wracking. A group of friends who share a passion for mountaineering meet for a trip into the wilderness. Things quickly go downhill from here (ha!), but compared to your traditional slasher movie (to be fair, this didn't feel like a slasher movie at all), our survivalists try to act intelligently. Hell, the whole story actually made sense!
But ...
Firefox 6 Memory Usage
Firefox 6 landed on my Ubuntu box, so obviously it's time for my mandatory Firefox rant...
top - 14:42:13 up 4:24, 7 users, load average: 6.52, 4.21, 1.83
Tasks: 216 total, 4 running, 211 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.0%us, 8.5%sy, 0.2%ni, 17.3%id, 69.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
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They call us crazy, but we store Contacts in Tracker
Visa authorities playing bad games with Chandni gave me the chance to talk about the QtContacts tracker plugin, which I and others where working on for that past few months. In case you've missed that early talk, here are the slides.
Interesting to just watch George from KDE to talk about similar things.
Premature bad taste becomes the norm
Seems premature bad taste becomes the norm in GNOME land.
Seems that video was shown at the desktop summit's GNOME: state of the union talk. Despite that the subtitles are entirely off, the German dialog behind is about the final days of ...
