For those who didn’t notice, Adobe released an updated version of the 64 bit Flash plugin on 24.02.2009. It’s the version 10.0.22.87 now. The installation procedure is the same than with the old plugin, just delete it before.
Get it on http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
I don’t know about you, but when I’m a bit depressed there is some music I simply have to listen to and voilà, I’m in a good mood again with a big smile on my face. I can’t say why I like a particular piece of music, it’s probably a mix of past memories, good rhythm and lyrics.
2 very different songs really stand out for me, “Hey Ya!” by Outkast and “Mr. Blue Sky” from Electric Light Orchestra. It’s simply awesome 
And you? Do you have such songs?
After my previous post, I investigated a bit further by changing one single compilation option as a reader suggested. Instead of running “make“, I ran “make -j 3” to run 3 compilation threads in parallel on my Core 2 Duo system. The results are quite surprising…
First of all, I ran my previous benchmarks again and the results were confirmed with a 17% gain for the NOOP scheduler. Then things got bad
As you have probably read, I bought a new laptop with an SSD drive recently, a Lenovo x301. Today I opened my SSD to see what’s inside and it turns out Lenovo is using quality drives. They are manufactured by Samsung, which use a decent I/O controller and cache memory contrary to the cheap drives you can buy these days which use lousy JMicron JMF602 controllers (Like the OCZ Core series). I started to wonder if I could gain even more performance…
SSD drive from a Lenovo x301