Steven
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Fri, 13 Jul 2007
My software works too well, change it back - 22:06
I have upgraded a few of the systems at work recently to a far more recent
image, this one based on feisty (users get to choose what environment they log
in to though (kde, gnome, something else, etc)). A short while after putting
the image on James' desktop he wandered over and asked if I had doubled the
size of the swap partition. When I said that had not changed he was almost
amazed as he said around half the memory used before the upgrade was now in
use.
It appears the profiling and lower memory foot print work various gurus in the kde and gnome and similar camps has paid dividends as there appears to be a pretty big drop in usage and memory leaks here and everything feels a bit faster all of which is good news. Not that I have done any real testing but perceived feel is relevant to some extent in a computing environment.
The most amusing thing here I thought was my interpretation of how he asked the question, it sounded almost as if something was wrong. As if James was saying "my computer is not using enough memory, and is running to fast, fix it, make it as slow and hoggy as it used to be". I guess at least he was not about to request a change to a computing system that seems to constantly get slower and more user unfriendly with every major release.
Taking the easy way out - 11:19
Last night I was trying to come up with something to write here, I have been
making more of an effort than most recent months to write here daily. With
nothing coming to mind I decided to do this the easy way and look to see what
was on the ABC News website
with the offbeat tag. I can almost always find something I feel like
commenting on if I look around here. Of course my grand plan fell apart when I
ended up watching that
idiotic
show on ABC last night with one of my house mates. I had to leave the room
a few times as I just could not handle the blind seeming single sided
attitudes of some of the items presented in the "documentary" or some views in
the subsequent panel. Then the tour coverage came on and I pretended to watch
that (when in actuality I fell asleep on the couch until midnight then went to
bed), so I never got around to writing anything here last night.
However I did find a few items of note and I for one welcome our new fungi overlords. I begin to wonder why these events are not more common outside northern Europe? Is that the only part of the world they want to celebrate the ability to carry heavy sacks of grain, or in the modern version see how fast they can escape over an obstacle course with their spouse? Though I do wonder if the couples are really couples or is it open to any mixed team. The races are a bit short though so I doubt these competitors would be able to go the distance in AR or similar carrying a team member around.
Then of course there was this item about a large famous estate being sold in the US for a lot of money. The bit that got me wondering is the mention of the night club in the house, huh what? See I have to admit to only ever having been inside a night club maybe 3 times in my life, however I was under the impression they were kind of boozy dance gatherings for people out on the town. How would a night club work inside a private property belonging to a really rich person? Maybe it is a revenue raiser.... could we all try it, remodel a few rooms in our house, get a liqueur licence and hope the police do not get called out due to the noise of excessively loud techno and screaming customers in the neighbourhood too much.
