Glenn’s August 2007 photos are up here.
It has over 600 images, so it may take a little while to load all the thumbnails. Glenn is doing ok, except for the teething and the occasional puking and slipping in said puke.
In computer geekery news, I was wondering about something that someone may have an opinion on. When using Mandriva Linux 2007.0 on my computer, I can have my browser (SeaMonkey), with 5 tabs open, e-mail open, AIM open, with 128K audio streaming into XMMS and be using 1 to 2% CPU usage. Is it the OS, the Processor/Motherboard combo, or the individual quality of the programs that allows this?
It am not trying to brag, but I am running everything on a 5 year old computer, and it is using 2% of the CPU. I am think it is either the OS, or the fact that I have a dedicated video card. At work, my Windows XP machine (P4 3.0 Ghz w/hyperthreading) is always pegging out the CPU usage with less running. It does have integrated video. Is a video card that important? At home I have a Athlon XP 2200 (1.8 Ghz), a quarter the RAM (512 vs. 2G) and it runs circles around my work computer.
On the other hand, I think when most of the applications install or run under Linux, they query the Kernel to what processor it is using, and optimizes the applications to run with that CPU’s extensions instead of the generic instruction set. Or it may be the Kernel is much better at utilizing the hardware?
Sorry about he geek rant. Is Linux kernel that good, is the Windows kernel that bad, or is it just a separate video card that makes all the difference?
August 2007
Glenn’s August 2007 photos are up here.
It has over 600 images, so it may take a little while to load all the thumbnails. Glenn is doing ok, except for the teething and the occasional puking and slipping in said puke.
In computer geekery news, I was wondering about something that someone may have an opinion on. When using Mandriva Linux 2007.0 on my computer, I can have my browser (SeaMonkey), with 5 tabs open, e-mail open, AIM open, with 128K audio streaming into XMMS and be using 1 to 2% CPU usage. Is it the OS, the Processor/Motherboard combo, or the individual quality of the programs that allows this?
It am not trying to brag, but I am running everything on a 5 year old computer, and it is using 2% of the CPU. I am think it is either the OS, or the fact that I have a dedicated video card. At work, my Windows XP machine (P4 3.0 Ghz w/hyperthreading) is always pegging out the CPU usage with less running. It does have integrated video. Is a video card that important? At home I have a Athlon XP 2200 (1.8 Ghz), a quarter the RAM (512 vs. 2G) and it runs circles around my work computer.
On the other hand, I think when most of the applications install or run under Linux, they query the Kernel to what processor it is using, and optimizes the applications to run with that CPU’s extensions instead of the generic instruction set. Or it may be the Kernel is much better at utilizing the hardware?
Sorry about he geek rant. Is Linux kernel that good, is the Windows kernel that bad, or is it just a separate video card that makes all the difference?
Posted by admin on September 2, 2007 in General Comments
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