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9.01.2005

Nach dem Booten

Die ersten 5 Dinge, die ich tue, wenn ich mich an den Computer setze:

1. Einloggen
2. startx
3. Sylpheed-Claws, Firefox und XMMS starten
4. Warten bis die E-Mails abgerufen sind
5. E-Mails lesen

Die ersten 5 Websites, die ich besuche:

1. x-log
2. symlink.ch
3. heise.de
4. der Rest hängt davon ab, was ich eigentlich am Computer machen wollte
5. …

Via cyrus.ruhr.de, Pocket-Blog, LostFocus, Late Night Blog.

00:24 | Misc | lien permanente

8.01.2005

Colors

I’ve found some color resources & utilities on del.icio.us. These are always useful, especially since i’m not the person who can just throw together three colors and automatically the result looks good.

• EasyRGB – Search for color harmonies, complements and themes for your RBG values
• Color Blender – Calculate midpoint colors
• 4096 Color Wheel – Color Wheel with corresponding web-safe & web-smart colors
• Spectacle – Tweaked web-smart Color Schemes
• Adam Poselli » Get the Look – Design & style guides
• Adam Poselli » Where’d Ya Get That Color Scheme? – Color schemes from photographs
• Adam Poselli’s 2005 Color Forecast – Colors
• Adam Poselli’s 2004 Color Forecast – More colors
• mezzoblue § Colour Schemes – How to select colors

23:02 | Webdesign | lien permanente

7.01.2005

NetBSD 2.0 vs FreeBSD 5.3

Gregory McGarry has made a benchmark comparison between NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3.
(via mindtrap::weblog)

The main differences are that NetBSD scales O(1) on forking new processes while FreeBSD scales O(n). For memory mapping and socket creation both scale O(1) but NetBSD is twice as fast as FreeBSD
But for binding addresses to sockets, FreeBSD scales O(1) while NetBSD scales O(n) but is twice as fast for a small number of bound sockets. Also for POSIX thread creation FreeBSD scales O(1) while NetBSD scales something like O(n) and is twice as fast for a small number of threads.

This paper has presented a suite of benchmarks and results for comparing the performance of NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3 in the areas of core operating system functionality, network scalability and thread performance.

The results clearly indicate that recent architectural decisions in the NetBSD operating system have closed the performance gap between NetBSD and FreeBSD. In fact, NetBSD has surpassed FreeBSD in performance in the areas investigated in this paper. Significant performance improvements are obviously visible in the thread implementation.

21:00 | NetBSD | lien permanente

6.01.2005

Nightwish - The Pharaoh Sails To Orion

"Get away from me!
Take heed to thyself and see my face no more!
for in the day Thou see my face
Thou shalt die!"
– Exodus 10:28

14:24 | Musique | lien permanente

Smarty

Angeregt durch Gordons Smarty Posting gibts es hier nun auch einen Eintrag über Template Systeme und ein paar interessante Links.

00:28 | Coding | lien permanente

5.01.2005

English

Motivated by Joel’s Advice for Computer Science College Students i beginn now to blog also in english. The target is to improve my written english skills.
I hope that this experiment doesn’t result like the french one, which is dying poorly since i daily speak french and don’t write in it anymore.

17:21 | Misc | lien permanente