Postings tagged with Bloat
Show me your home screen!
To me the empty home screen* of the N900 looked like an invitation, so I tried to fill it up with useless stuff as quickly as possible. The home screen configuration menu offers app launchers (shortcuts), bookmarks, widgets and contacts. Let's go through all four options in detail:
- Shortcuts: I almost always have some tasks running in the background so launching an application would usually take three to four finger touches. Therefore the app launchers are extremely helpful to ...
Priceless...
Interesting how German computer scientists use their office hours: Elements of an EmotionML 1.0.
<emotionml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml">
<emotion>
<category set="humaneDatabaseLabels" name="Amusement"/>
<intensity value="0.7"/>
</emotion>
</emotionml>
Found at plasmasturm.org.
Stripping down GNU make
After reading Thomas' rant about automake 1.10 rejecting GNU-makeism in its script I wondered if it wouldn't possible to ship GNU make with all tarballs, instead of all the autotools crap. So I did some experiments this morning.
Raw GNU make 3.81 as distributed by the FSF requires 1.1 MB. After unpacking 6.4 MB of disk space are used:
576 config/
1052 ...
