May 2009

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• 05.27.09
  Windows 7 – First learning points   Tips, Windows (1)

  Installed Windows 7 RC2 for the first time yesterday. In Virtual Machine First installation in a VirtualBox – which worked fine except for the VirtualBox graphics adapter not being accelerated – which meant Solitaire ran extremely slow. Apart from that – no problems. Dual/triple booting Once the gut feeling was OK, i made room for [...]

• 05.24.09
  Offtopic: The future of the gas station   Geekyness, Human (1)

  This is not about the usual geekyness – it is about a change I am sure is about to happen. Once the benefits are clear – I am quite sure everybody will want an electric car instead of their gas/diesel-one. The concept of having an energy-buffer, in the shape of the cars in a region, [...]

• 05.06.09
  Javascript performance on current browsers   Geekyness, Linux, Performance, Software design, Web, Windows (1)

  Found this little test which gives an indicator as to Javascript performance in your browser. On my system (Windows XP on two year old Lenovo T60p laptop) i tried to run it ten times on my browsers with all plugins disabled (lower is better): Google Chrome: 297,7Firefox 3.5 beta 4: 340Firefox 3.0.10: 408,9Internet Explorer 8: [...]

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