I had it enabled (without the enhanced functionality mind you) and my firefox memory usage jumped to 120MB+ on startup, on a blank page! and then Firefox proceeded to consume 100% CPU and slow things down to the point where I had to use the Task Manager to kill it. I found the cause by removing one extension after another. The moment the Google Safe Browsing extension was uninstalled, things went back to normal and Firefox was not using more than 27MB of RAM.
After some googling, I found
a thread about this memory leak
I also came across this - a thread detailing which combinations of extensions result in memory leaks.
You do realize that you can create a personal use copy of a movie that you own or for that matter, any video and watch it on your PSP using a 1GB memory stick? Check out http://www.pspvideo9.com/
I thought this was hilarious simply because I'm aware of latency to the soundcard due to buffering for mixing output, etc. and it varies on machines by hundreds of milliseconds.
Really? I'm sorry, but that simply does not make sense. If that is the case, then how do you explain games and video running smoothly? Audio latency greater than 100ms is noticable to the average person.
Yes, there is latency that increases with buffering. But if you have worked with audio, you will know that you do not have to buffer a lot at all to be able to do simple things like mixing. If you want to do stuff like applying filter chains, then you still don't need large buffers - at least you dont need buffers that are large enough to drive the latency to hundreds of milliseconds.
I'm sorry sir...your latency claims smell of exaggeration.
True. For that matter, take ONE single game - Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. As of now, the player count is past the 500 million mark and that is for ONE free game.
Rent : $300 pm In a safe neighborhood? You dont want your programmer murdered or mugged before the project is over.
Food : $1200 pm What? mac n Cheese? What about a balanced diet? Do you even care about this person you are paying???
Please use realistic figures that someone can actually live by. 4 years ago, you could not live with that amount of cash in Los Angeles. How about now?
...but until there are some pretty radical advances in power storage, display and user interaction, there will always be a place for the newspaper. You can get the info anywhere, true. But right now, for a really small price, you get a very large "paper screen" with the info on it that you can browse through at your own speed regardless of battery life, internet connectivity and how much space you have around you. Yes, you can get the info in a browser, but have u ever tried lying back in bed and browsing with your laptop or other mobile device? How long is it before you get tired looking at the screen, get tired of the weight or notice the heat? Or how about just get tired of the position you have to be in to use the darn device?
Until those problems in technology are solved, I'm sorry Rupert, newspapers will not die.
You don't need money for that. Ekiga will get its advertising exactly the same way the rest of open source gets it - word of mouth.
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I agree here. All of a sudden, the thing to do is to mud sling about package names. Come on. If the guy named it after his girlfriend, that's great. If he named it after his favorite cartoon, that's great. The POINT is, if it gets used widely enough, it won't matter what it's called. How about Trillian? EMule? EDonkey? Acrobat?
Get the point? If it's a good app, help expand its user base. If you really want to help, do that. Anyone can sit around and bitch.
are such that the lethargy you talk about can be identified as step 1. Step 2 would be where the curious users give linux a try (I'm talking curious users, not curious geeks) Step 3 would be where some of the curious have liked it and it spreads via word of mouth. Then the less lethargic try Linux out. At each of the above steps, the number of Linux users grows. Step 4 is when Lethargic user 1 has a majority of people in his/her cyber communication cirle use Linux and has to think about switching out of necessity. Some lethargic users will switch at this stage. At this point, Linux is considered by all users to be a viable alternative.
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Thanks:) It is always nice to be appreciated:) Was simply directing credit to where the credit was due:)
The Linux desktop is finally coming into it's own
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You have Gnome and KDE - two very different approaches that manage to co-exist side by side. I'm a KDE guy myself, but I must say that Gnome's looking really polished and I can see Gnome and KDE standing beside, if not taller than Windows in the near future. I won't be switching because I like KDE's direction, but there are probbaly a lot of Gnome users who say the same and I can appreciate that. We also do need to thank the artists that put in the time to create the icons and mouse cursors for us. You can put in all the anti-aliasing you want, but if something like the icons dont look good, people get put off. I'm just really happy for the Gnome guys and all I can say is, "keep it up, you're doing a great job!" Linux is about choice. I wouldn't want either Gnome or KDE to wipe each other out. They need to co-exist simply to show Windows users that there is a choice available if not for anything else:)
It's nature's way of trying to cool the planet. It's called global warming in the short term, but it will cool the planet in the long term. Yes, mankind caused it.
It is highly recommended if you are using the Nvidia binary VGA drivers that you use version 7676 or earlier as later revisions have serious problems with features like XvMC and OpenGL sync which can result in poor performance or lockups.
Will the breezy package automatically check for that?
If Deibold actually screwed up, what prevents them from generating a file and then handing it over? I mean, the Democrats want "a file" in the "raw file format". How do they know that it is the same file as the one generated during the elections or that it has not been modified in any way? Can somebody answer this for me?
Reminds me of an old Asimov short story about the difference between synthetic garlic flavour and the real thing...I forget what it was, but it conveyed the same sentiment - that natural garlic was infinitely more complex and subtle than synthetic garlic even though food synthesis technology had reached its peak in the future.
From my Civ playing days, I remember having a nice shiny new Stealth Bomber being defeated by a good old Phalanx unit!:) From that moment on, it was only Phalanxs for me:)
What I liek about Civ 4 is that you can tell who's winning - a guy with a spear (spearman) will easily dodge blows from a guy with a club (barbarian). The spearman then takes one strong jab at the barbarian and it FEELS like he's done a good deal of damage:) and sure enough, at the next spear strike, the barbairan goes flying a few feet into the dirt:) Very nice change to the game:)
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I had it enabled (without the enhanced functionality mind you) and my firefox memory usage jumped to 120MB+ on startup, on a blank page! and then Firefox proceeded to consume 100% CPU and slow things down to the point where I had to use the Task Manager to kill it. I found the cause by removing one extension after another. The moment the Google Safe Browsing extension was uninstalled, things went back to normal and Firefox was not using more than 27MB of RAM.
After some googling, I found a thread about this memory leak I also came across this - a thread detailing which combinations of extensions result in memory leaks.
Timeout Exception! :)
Yeah. That's a thinking bug right there! :)
You do realize that you can create a personal use copy of a movie that you own or for that matter, any video and watch it on your PSP using a 1GB memory stick? Check out http://www.pspvideo9.com/
the drilling machine was named Wilson and it brought back memories of a long lost buddy from a time when he was marooned on an island.
and in the future:
"A single core ought to be enough for businesses."
- Slashdot, 2006.
True. For that matter, take ONE single game - Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. As of now, the player count is past the 500 million mark and that is for ONE free game.
Rent : $300 pm
In a safe neighborhood? You dont want your programmer murdered or mugged before the project is over.
Food : $1200 pm
What? mac n Cheese? What about a balanced diet? Do you even care about this person you are paying???
Please use realistic figures that someone can actually live by. 4 years ago, you could not live with that amount of cash in Los Angeles. How about now?
...but until there are some pretty radical advances in power storage, display and user interaction, there will always be a place for the newspaper. You can get the info anywhere, true. But right now, for a really small price, you get a very large "paper screen" with the info on it that you can browse through at your own speed regardless of battery life, internet connectivity and how much space you have around you. Yes, you can get the info in a browser, but have u ever tried lying back in bed and browsing with your laptop or other mobile device? How long is it before you get tired looking at the screen, get tired of the weight or notice the heat? Or how about just get tired of the position you have to be in to use the darn device?
Until those problems in technology are solved, I'm sorry Rupert, newspapers will not die.
You don't need money for that. Ekiga will get its advertising exactly the same way the rest of open source gets it - word of mouth.
I agree here. All of a sudden, the thing to do is to mud sling about package names. Come on. If the guy named it after his girlfriend, that's great. If he named it after his favorite cartoon, that's great. The POINT is, if it gets used widely enough, it won't matter what it's called. How about Trillian? EMule? EDonkey? Acrobat?
Get the point? If it's a good app, help expand its user base. If you really want to help, do that. Anyone can sit around and bitch.
so you're telling me that it was a bug in the doom 3 story line?
you can definitely expect colored rain in the near future from THAT explosion...
are such that the lethargy you talk about can be identified as step 1.
Step 2 would be where the curious users give linux a try (I'm talking curious users, not curious geeks)
Step 3 would be where some of the curious have liked it and it spreads via word of mouth. Then the less lethargic try Linux out. At each of the above steps, the number of Linux users grows.
Step 4 is when Lethargic user 1 has a majority of people in his/her cyber communication cirle use Linux and has to think about switching out of necessity. Some lethargic users will switch at this stage. At this point, Linux is considered by all users to be a viable alternative.
Thanks :) It is always nice to be appreciated :) Was simply directing credit to where the credit was due :)
You have Gnome and KDE - two very different approaches that manage to co-exist side by side. I'm a KDE guy myself, but I must say that Gnome's looking really polished and I can see Gnome and KDE standing beside, if not taller than Windows in the near future. I won't be switching because I like KDE's direction, but there are probbaly a lot of Gnome users who say the same and I can appreciate that. :)
We also do need to thank the artists that put in the time to create the icons and mouse cursors for us. You can put in all the anti-aliasing you want, but if something like the icons dont look good, people get put off. I'm just really happy for the Gnome guys and all I can say is, "keep it up, you're doing a great job!"
Linux is about choice. I wouldn't want either Gnome or KDE to wipe each other out. They need to co-exist simply to show Windows users that there is a choice available if not for anything else
It's nature's way of trying to cool the planet. It's called global warming in the short term, but it will cool the planet in the long term. Yes, mankind caused it.
...and from the looks of events in the past, spawning in camp too :)
It is highly recommended if you are using the Nvidia binary VGA drivers that you use version 7676 or earlier as later revisions have serious problems with features like XvMC and OpenGL sync which can result in poor performance or lockups.
Will the breezy package automatically check for that?
Why can't industry for ONCE collaborate and come up with an open, free flash killer standard that everyone will adhere to?
If Deibold actually screwed up, what prevents them from generating a file and then handing it over? I mean, the Democrats want "a file" in the "raw file format". How do they know that it is the same file as the one generated during the elections or that it has not been modified in any way? Can somebody answer this for me?
Are you the guy Philip K Dick wrote about? :)
Reminds me of an old Asimov short story about the difference between synthetic garlic flavour and the real thing...I forget what it was, but it conveyed the same sentiment - that natural garlic was infinitely more complex and subtle than synthetic garlic even though food synthesis technology had reached its peak in the future.
From my Civ playing days, I remember having a nice shiny new Stealth Bomber being defeated by a good old Phalanx unit! :) From that moment on, it was only Phalanxs for me :)
:) and sure enough, at the next spear strike, the barbairan goes flying a few feet into the dirt :) Very nice change to the game :)
What I liek about Civ 4 is that you can tell who's winning - a guy with a spear (spearman) will easily dodge blows from a guy with a club (barbarian). The spearman then takes one strong jab at the barbarian and it FEELS like he's done a good deal of damage