November 2014 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Firefox is a pig
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

My desktop has been up for a week. I have a lot of firefox windows and many more tabs open. FF was getting sluggish. It has taken 4k minutes of CPU. Not seconds. So that is about 10 hours of CPU per day. Even quiting is taking a long time. About 10 minutes so far. At 99% of the CPU. Yuck. Maybe I'll kill it. It is taking 8G of virtual memory and 4.5 G resident (according to top).

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Virtual Machines Under Android?
by Scott Sullivan 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

First some background, then a question. Recently, due to my laptop becoming non-usable for mobile work, I've been taking much more advantage of my Android phone. Paired with a usb Lenovo compact thinkpad keyboard w/ track-point, and it's surprisingly very usable, the track point giving me a mouse courser and keyboard on a single USB-OTG connection. What I have found is that while you can almost use it as a desktop, it's clearly not, and you won't get the same efficiency of use. But it's led me thinking that this device is in many respects more powerful then my sub-notebook laptop (less the RAM). So the question. What have people done to run virtual machines on their Android phones? A few years ago I had tried out Limbo PC, which was a QEMU port to run x86 machines on your phone. You loose a lot of performance in the instruction set translation. I know the major Distro's have very robust ARM package sets at this point, so I'd look at running a native Linux in visualization. http://linuxonandroid.org/ This comes up in searches, but on the surface looks like their using a chroot method. Hmm... which I hadn't considered. -- Scott Sullivan

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I stumbled on a DD-WRT drama
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Kong quits development: <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=269247&postdays=0&postorder=as…> subject: Ceasing Development As best I can make out, he did some/most/all of the ARM side of things (eg. for the recent Netgear wireless router). Much wailing and gnashing of teeth ensued, as well it might. Then it turned into a pile-on-colinsnj. Apparently he seems to want the GPL to be respected, and that others think that that is what drove Kong away. I kind of feel that colinsnj is right, but then that's why I'm not a dd-wrt user. Then Kong posts that it was all a joke and that he smoked out the evil Colinsnj <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=269359> subject: !!! ~~~ YOU HAVE BEEN PRANKED ~~~ !!! One amusing part of the last bit: Kong wants others to do more of the work building "optware packages". To enable that: I instructed basmaf to prepare an openwrt build environment in order to build packages that are fully compatible with dd-wrt. The same is needed for arm and musl now. It is a bit more difficult in this case as a lot of packages need some work in order to compile with musl, so you should have some coding experience:-) This certainly reinforces the belief that DD-WRT folks don't want any but insiders to be able to build dd-ware. Some of the users seem to be suffering Stockholm Syndrome. They don't realize that they would not be so beholden to Brainslayer and Kong if this was really open source. Of course they would not have a good Broadcom driver either.

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Fwd: [PRIVATE] [TLUG]: monitor, dell (fwd)
by ted leslie 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

People have posted good price stuff on here before: http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/dell-27-2560-x-1440-led-ips-monitor/60001894778… 750$ monitor for 250$ ! pricing error? you tell me! Like the lenovo portable someone posted here a while back, if it is a pricing error, I assume they will not fulfil, but I have ordered a couple any way, see what happens. -tl

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Thinkpad choices today?
by Scott Sullivan 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

After 4 years my Lenovo x120e has final succumbed to the rough and tumble I put it through. The screen cracked and is unusable. This leaves me looking for a replacement. I'm going to constrain this question to Lenovo options. I don't think I can overcome my track-point addiction. Anyone purchased Thinkpad hardware in the last while? I know with some of the recent models Lenovo has started messing around with the keyboard design. What are peoples opinions? -- Scott Sullivan

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interesting article about how ChromeOS started
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

<http://blog.jeff-nelson.com/2012/11/on-inventing-chromebook.html> (I'm not sure "invented" is the word I'd use.)

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My company is looking for some Java folks
by David Collier-Brown 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

We're looking for a senior back-end person and a web designer and developer. See stack overflow, https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/73611/senior-platform-engineer-world… https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/73612/web-designer-developer-worldga… --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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Thanks! [Was: Git Conundrum]
by Scott Elcomb 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Although we haven't identified the root cause yet (investigation is ongoing) we were able to sort things out for the client and learn a bunch of arcana in the meantime :) Just wanted to drop a quick Thank You to everyone's suggestions last week - they were much appreciated. Best Regards, - Scott -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 http://psema4.com/pubkey.txt http://www.pirateparty.ca/

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Nov 11th
by David Thornton 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Here are the whiteboards from the after talk discussion. David

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tonight at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

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