Why is Skype hogging my CPU?
I noticed Skype is utilising the CPU varying between 7 and 15 %. That’s insane, for a chat app ffs!
Quote Of The Week #53
 by in Quote Of The Week |
From the song “Eve of Destruction”, originally written by P.F. Sloan, and performed by various artists such as Barry Macquire and, more recently, Public Enemy:
Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’,
I’m sittin’ here, just contemplatin’,
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don’t pass legislation,
and marches alone can’t bring integration,
when human [...]
New server!
| by in General |
One man’s trash is another man’s new server.
I love to recycle. I got a ‘new’ server from a buddy of mine, which performs better than the older one. So the web- and database- stuff have just been migrated to the other machine and things seem to work OK.
You may noticed if you have been here [...]
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
Japanese is an interesting language…
| by in History |
So I ordered that game recently and in preperation, having downloaded some translated scans from the internet, my curiosity for the Japanese language has been stirred..
A dog is never to old to learn new tricks so, heck, why not try to learn some bits of a new language in my 32th year on this planet. [...]
….wanted….game….so….&^%$#…bad….
| by in Consoles & Games |
…so I ordered the Japanese title, Minna No Golf for the PlayStation 3 from Hong Kong today (as have so many others).
Me and my girlfriend enjoyed the PS2 version a lot and, as I’m reading lots of good things about this new one, and because I am the impatient type, I couldn’t resist ordering it [...]
The C64 rocked!
| by in Computers & Hardware, History |
Retro, Commodore 64
Peep this…
| by in Music |
I was reminded by somebody that Public Enemy’s new album is out due 7 august. I am definitely gonna get it…
PS3 + big-ass HDTV = OMFG
So a buddy of mine bought himself a big-ass, 46″(full-) HDTV earlier this week. He asked me if I wanted to take my PS3 with so we could check it out it’s full capabilities.
And in awe we were! Damn, that shit looks sharp.
I had downloaded a few high-definition movie- and game-trailers from the [...]
