Friday, October 20. 2006
Why you don't want winmodems
My laptop has an internal modem I rarely use. Currently it's one of those moments. It is a so-called winmodem that is no real modem, but just a sound device with a splittet driver: An in-kernel alsa one (free) and a proprietary daemon emulating a modem.
I wondered why some tasks that have nothing to do with network were slow as hell. Now, I knew that it just emulates, but I never thought of that:
I wondered why some tasks that have nothing to do with network were slow as hell. Now, I knew that it just emulates, but I never thought of that:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30458 root RT -6 4384 4384 3588 S 17.3 0.9 8:37.33 slmodemd
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Friday, October 13. 2006
10 years KDE

We heared two interesting talks, one about the upcoming KDE 4, and one from a guy from Treuchtlingen, a small town who's government has converted to Linux solutions in 2002.
After that we had some champagne and cake. Sadly I didn't get the Qtopia Greenphone that one could win.
Others:
Gentle: Champagner, Torent und Usability
tackat: Happy Birthday KDE! (with pictures)
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