Postings tagged with Quality
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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The limits of "community driven"
So I decided to finally upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Easy task, only should take some time: After all I did a plain default install. Well, ok - I've used the alternative ISO as my employer requires me to use full disk encryption. It's a good idea anyway, no idea why this feature isn't the default for all installs.
So after some time the install finishes, the ...
12" widescreen notebook for Linux?
Hello Lazyweb,
I am looking for a robust 12" widescreen notebook with proper Linux support (working suspend mode, robust USB support, and so on). Most of the time I'd use it within some docking-station as desktop replacement, so it should have some proper CPU. Still I'd like to use it for traveling, so heavy 14" notebooks are out of choice.
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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 ...
Let's talk about quality...
"Let's talk about quality...", that's what I was thinking, when the Six Mrd. Dollar baby called Vista, presented me that dialog box:
