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June 2009

Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage

by night.kame

Firefox 3.5 used the smallest amount of memory during its peak, it used the smallest amount of memory when all points were averaged, and it used the smallest amount of memory at the end of the experiment after all tabs were closed. Firefox 3.5 continues Firefox 3.0's legacy of being the most memory efficient browser in this style of experiment.

A noter le "in this kind of experiment". Le test en lui-même ne montre pas grand chose, il est biaisé initialement par le fait que Windows gère mal la mémoire dans le sens où il ne maximise pas l'utilisation de la RAM. La seule chose importante est de savoir si la mémoire utilisée est la RAM ou la mémoire virtuelle (ie. un bête fichier). Tant qu'on reste dans la RAM, il n'y a pas de problème, et de ce point de vue là, une utilisation par Chrome de 1Go de mémoire sur les 4Go de mémoire physique (configuration du test) n'est pas forcément négatif au niveau des performances. De même, si la faible consommation de mémoire de Firefox est due à un nettoyage aggressif des structures de données temporaires, ça peut être pénalisant en vitesse. Mais étant donné que ce test ne regarde que la mémoire (espace) et pas la vitesse (temps), les conclusions ne peuvent être que très limitées. La remarque sur IE8 ne fait pas très sérieux...

How to Use Flash Video (FLV) Cue Points

by Spone & 1 other (via)
Video cue points can be used for all sorts of things in Flash. Typical uses involve triggering other activity, such as peripheral movie clips whose animations enhance the video content, or triggering text, such as closed captions. I’ve seen some developers in the Adobe forums even use a cue point to signal that a video clip has reached its end. Strictly speaking, cue points aren’t needed for that last goal (see “How to Determine the Completion of a Flash Video (FLV) File”), but it’s certainly a possible way to go. If you’re interested in cue points yourself, but don’t know where to begin, let’s dive in.

March 2009

Second law of thermodynamics - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science

by ericpaul
In simple terms, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system will always increase, and a local decrease in entropy in an open system always results in a larger increase in external entropy.

Tim Schwartz - Card Catalog

by karlcow

A card catalog designed to hold all of the songs on my iPod, 7,390 songs. Each song is cataloged on a single card. The cards are organized in reverse chronological order, that is the songs I listened to most recently are in the front of the catalog, and the songs I haven’t listened to in two years exist at the back. The piece is seven feet long when closed and just under fourteen feet when opened.

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February 2009

Il Giornale Nuovo

by borsky & 5 others
My all-time favourite site/protoblog, closed in 2007. Still the archives are online. Two main parts: Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature - a very large work brought here online; and more especially, a gigantic database of strange (mostly fairly ancient) art and engravings. Mr. h. used to give away some of his books through this site. This is the top in what me might call scientific study of visionary art with lots of images and lots of external links.

Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Conventional Wisdom

by karlcow

The goal is to get consensus on a document that improves life for cross-browser web authors as soon as possible, without spending time on features that only apply to small portions of the market, proprietary devices, wrappers for patent-encumbered media players, and other products of closed development processes.

January 2009

American Civil Liberties Union : President Obama To Order Guantánamo Closed

by karlcow

The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday calling for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year and halting all military commission trials in the meantime.

November 2008

Some owners deserting factories in China - Los Angeles Times

by karlcow

Government statistics show that 67,000 factories of various sizes were shuttered in China in the first half of the year, said Cao Jianhai, an industrial economics researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. By year's end, he said, more than 100,000 plants will have closed.

October 2008

Redo The Web » It’s Oh So Quiet

by znarf

It’s so quiet in this blog, because it is closed. Forever. No more post will ever be published, you can’t send any comment, and you can unsubscribe safely from its RSS feed.

August 2008

BBC NEWS | Business | Shunned Starbucks in Aussie exit

by karlcow & 1 other

The mighty Starbucks coffee empire has been handed a heavy defeat by thousands of small Australian cafes in the fight for a nation's taste buds. Eight years after it began selling its espressos and frappucinos in Australia, the US giant has succumbed to powerful financial and cultural pressures and has closed 61 of its 85 shops across the country.

Très intéressant.

bibliotheque OPAC.02 : Une experience pour avoir Google comme moteur de recherche dans l'opac (Get Tooled Up : 'Looking for a Google Box?')

by decembre
There are, perhaps, four directions we can take: 1. Evaluate the complete range of closed and open source offerings, pick the best, and be prepared to pay a yearly licence fee of an unknown amount 2. Develop our own private search engine, possibly based on ht://Dig [3] or egothor [4] code 3. Make use of the free Google index of our pages 4. License Google technology to do local indexing Each route has its attractions, but the latter two are particularly attractive because of the high degree of trust in, and familiarity with, Google. But the public search has problems: * Google cannot see inside our protected sites * Every search transaction has to leave our site, is dependent on international networks, and uses up bandwidth * The depth and frequency of search is not guaranteed * Google may withdraw the service at any time

IPR Draft Guidelines - Open Web Foundation Discussion | Google Groupes

by karlcow & 1 other

I think the bylaws and closed membership will keep the foundation consistent. It works well for the ASF which is the model we are building on. As for the spec, I think it is really up to the personalities involved and the communities will need to self regulate. The OAuth leads had an idea and we made sure the community didn't change.

open mais en fait closed.

June 2008

SourceForge.net: ViPlay3

by jdrsantos
URUSoft ViPlay3 - Rise of the Players! ViPlay3 is the new version of ViPlay Media Player (www.urusoft.net), so far, it has been closed source, but now it has become open source to achieve the greatness that only an Open Source Community can give to it!

May 2008

April 2008

French Instant Messaging Startup Iminent Gets €2.4m Series B

by srcmax (via)
Paris, France-based Iminent raised a €2.4 million second round of financing this month from I-Source Gestion and previous investor 360º Capital Partners. They’ve raised a total of €5.4 million to date - their first round was closed a year ago.

March 2008

How to Use HttpWebRequest over SSL

by ms_michel
If you try to use HttpWebRequest for calling secured sites, and you are getting the following exception: “The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship with remote server” here is what’s happening and how you can (hopefully) solve it:

LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio

by jdrsantos & 4 others
LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops/FL Studio, Cubase and Logic allowing you to produce music with your computer. This includes creation of loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arra

February 2008

Japanese Gyoza - How To Make, Recipes, Tips, Tools

by karlcow

Gyoza is a dumpling comprised of a thin skin of dough with a small amount of filling which is sealed closed like a turnover then most typically fried.

CMXtraneous: The irony of open source software

by mozkart
Free, I like free. I use free stuff all the time. Firefox, Filezilla, 7zip, and Thunderbird every day, for example. My server is on some flavor of GNU/Linux with Apache, phpmyadmin, Horde, mySQL and PHP (which also includes, I’m sure, TONs more software). I have a Yahoo, Hotmail, Myway, Gmail, and AOL free email address. All of those have a variety of free to them, some are open source free (GPL, for example), some are closed source free, some are just used for free (like Google, for example) where there is no source to see. Now, with open source, it is more than mere “free” software – it carries a philosophy with it, that software should be free. The preamble to the license includes: The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. Now, where this all gets ironic is the drumbeat for donations. I have several extensions I use in Firefox and a couple of them make heartfelt, earnest pleas for money, after all, they spend considerable time creating the software. If I visit open source software sites that aren’t currently backed by a commercial company, 90% of the time they are asking/accepting donations (if the product is any good and widely used). So … which is it? Is it free or do you want money for it?

January 2008

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish

by knann
Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.

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