Finally, I know why OpenOffice loads as fast as a mammoth runs. According to this interview, this is mainly because the kernel I/O schedulers and readahead algorithm suck, and also because of g++ which sucks at linking. Pardon, mais LOL….
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Biloba freed
Biloba is a board game that I wrote for Guillaume Demougeot, and which he open-sourced last week. After the initial release, we had a few comments in the Linuxfr news I posted, and I released version 0.3 to address most of the remarks we got. I’m really happy about this opening :-) Give that game…
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What the hell
The default install of WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4, when you choose a server profile, comes with X and gnome. WhiteBox is a de-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution, so I suppose RHEL does the same. Hey, RedHat, where did you learn installing servers? During a Microsoft Windows NT meeting?…
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First Ubuntu annoyance
[colin@jack ~]$ locate wireless-applet [colin@jack ~]$ sudo apt-cache search !$ sudo apt-cache search wireless-applet Password: [colin@jack ~]$ Now, where’s my wireless applet! The stupid thing resembling the Windows connection monitor is no good. I want something with a percentage….
07/09/2005 Lire la suite...
