This is the place where you will learn about the most ridiculous products that will end up in your basement or equivalent.
If stability and memory requirements of Firefox and Thunderbird are not to your liking, try out Seamonkey.
It’s also by Mozilla, and it is the continuation of the old Netscape suite of applications. The Navigator is based on the latest Gecko release, the mail/news program is more the adequate, and the Composer is excellent.
It supports all of the Firefox plugins, but add on support is a little shoddy at the moment. If you want a slick, easy to internet suite, check it out. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Older versions are available for OS/2, Beos, and others. It loads quickly and has not crashed on my home Linux machine or work Windows XP machine as well.
I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.
I am sure Glenn will want seamonkeys some day as well. Poor, little shrimp. At least it will teach him about the cycle of life.
What a lovely evening. It has been storming off and on like crazy tonight.
Right in the middle of the worst storm, little Glenn starts making a gagging noise, then starts puking his guts out onto the floor. So, in the middle of lighting and thunder and rain, I am sopping up baby puke with paper towels.
It looked like most of dinner came up.
Let me tell you, baby puke smells just like adult puke.
Carrots don’t digest in your stomach either.
So, for all you future parents out there, you have a lot to look forward to.
Posted some more images to the ‘daily’ image page here.
Nothing too exciting. I don’t know why, but I like taking pictures of churches. I don’t like what goes on in there, but the buildings are quite beautiful and very well made, compared to most.
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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