Who would have thought I would be writing an article about how Linux is too good at keeping memory usage low? I don’t want memory to be used badly or stupidly, but I really hate swapping and virtual memory slowdowns (My finger is pointing at you Java). I’ve tried all the “fixes” (such as setting …
It’s 2009 and I think it’s pretty safe to say that anyone who can read probably hates Internet Explorer 6.0. Making sites in IE6 is a pain, and requires useless knowledge specific to this time vampire of a web browser. Most sites are failing to provide any kind of reliable experience within IE6, and Google …
Ubuntu stores it’s GTK themes in a user directory located at ~/.themes, since installing a new theme should not require administrator access. This is great for adding your own themes, which you can do by draggin them into the theme manager window, but applications ran as the root user will appear awkward as they are …