Monthly Archives: April 2007

Firefox uses 100% of CPU after hibernate

4/30/2007 – 12:52 am

I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0.3. Previously I had been using a 1.5.x version. After discovering Firefox frequently using 100% of the CPU after using it only for a short while, I investigated further. It apparently is makes tons of gettimeofday syscalls. I stumbled upon a known issue in bugzilla. Mozilla runs at ~100% cpu [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments (3)

Experts-Exchange Sucks More, Employing Obfuscation to Force Signup

4/14/2007 – 4:57 pm

Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. In Konqueror, [...]

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Silent Hunter 4 a Failure, Colossal Disappointment

4/1/2007 – 10:46 pm

I had been looking forward to the latest release in the Silent Hunter series, Wolves of the Pacific. UBISoft‘s track record in the past has been very poor, but I was still somehwat hopeful SH4 would be least mildly release quality when it finally hit the stores. Sadly, such is not the case. It appears [...]

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