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Unixmen - Tips to reduce memory usage on Firefox

2010-07-14 1 min read Firefox Uncategorized

A nice aritcle on reducing the memory usage of firefox on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux.

There are some things in life everyone is looking for and no one ever finds and there are other things that people keep finding and re-finding and inventing and re-inventing. Reducing memory usage for <a class="zem_slink" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox and speeding it up is one such thing. So, here is another story to reduce the memory usage of firefox.

Are you swapped? Increase the performance of Linux machine.

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux

With the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end Desktop with 256MB RAM and today I have a 2GB RAM Desktop. So, whats the point.

The Linux systems (right word should be kernel) are desiged to use both RAM and swap partition. Swap partition is a partition on Hard disk and is used mostly like RAM. Problem is that HDD access is always slower than RAM access and hence inherently, the system will work little slower even if you have enough RAM not to use swap. The term ”swappiness” is used to determine how the kernel should try to seam-balance between the use of RAM and swap. By default, most of the distro’s have a swappiness of 60. A higher value of swappiness means that the RAM will be swapped out faster.

A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

2010-07-14 0 min read Linux Uncategorized

$\"Tux,$: Image via Wikipedia

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1" target="_blank">A five way linux comparison.

A very good comparison of the most common and famous distributions of <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. Very comprehensive and detailed. Love this guy.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5585048/spotify-streaming-music-player-comes-to-linux">Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux [Downloads] (lifehacker.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sathyasays.com/2010/07/13/spotify-for-linux/">Spotify for Linux (sathyasays.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_c16.gif" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

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2010-07-12 0 min read

gnomecc color scheme - my favourite.

2010-07-11 1 min read Fedora

my favourite <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser">gtkrc-2 file.

Snapshot of how it looks.

jumps and marks in vim

2010-07-11 3 min read Linux Vim Tips

First we will talk about jumps in vim. Very useful for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/navigation" title="Navigation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation">navigation and jumping around the vim. The jumps are commands that lets you jump from one location to another location, like {{ or [[ and so on … From the help file of vim

A ”jump” is one of the following commands: ”’”, ”`”, ”G”, ”/”, ”?”, ”n”,
”N”, ”%”, ”(”, ”)”, ”[[”, ”]]”, ”{”, ”}”, ”:s”, ”:tag”, ”L”, ”M”, ”H” and
the commands that start editing a new file. If you make the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cursor" title="Cursor (computers)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_%28computers%29">cursor ”jump”
with one of these commands, the position of the cursor before the jump is
remembered. You can return to that position with the ”’’” and ”“” command,
unless the line containing that position was changed or deleted.
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New Improvements in the site and added few more features.

2010-07-11 2 min read Uncategorized

Last couple of days I have spent quite some time on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000041684" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website design and format and performance along with moving my Hosting Provider.

Here are couple of things that you would notice immediately:

Site loading time is decreased substantially. I saw it loading in 5 seconds from my system.
I have moved my hosting from ZNetIndia to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000003f4284" title="Go Daddy" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.617409,-111.90477&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.617409,-111.90477%20%28Go%20Daddy%29&t=h">GoDaddy. Though the users do not have any direct impact in experience but that has definitely improved the performance. I have spent quite some amount of money on this and would request the viewers to click on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Advertisements to help me cover it. You help is much appreciated. Other way you can help is by way of buying my photos from my <a title="My E Sop" href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">e-shop.
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