audacious %CPU

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Yo, Recently, I noticed that audacious (ver. 2.3.-2) is gulping my CPU resources (~25%CPU according to top) and today I discovered, on my Debian Linux (sid), that the culprit seems to be the combination between audacious and ALSA: once I installed pulseaudio, and set audacious to play through pulseaudio, the audacious dropped to 3%CPU (top [...]

freedom of choice

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

If you’re still using Windows in 2009, at home or at work, while there is FreeBSD, and this variety of GNU/Linux distributions, like Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Knoppix …, please don’t speak to anyone anymore about freedom of choice, that’s a freedom you’re not using, so chances are you’re not really grasping the concept. I switched [...]

about windows7

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

I was willing to get the free trial MSWindows7, so i had to create an account, in a typical corporate fashion, and started downloading the beast, then I stopped because it was fully clear to me that the next Windows is Ubuntu: it’s already fully functional and user-friendly, not to mention that it’s free as [...]