It looks like Chrome is hiding something from us — in its about:memory report — fairly counting memory usage of Firefox (marked orange), it shows us only the part of truth (marked green). What are these «hidden» processes, that Chromium shy of (marked red)? Looks like that «hidden» instances eat much more memory, that Chrome shows.
During taking the screenshot, there was only one Chrome window running, as well as one window of Firefox. It is Ubuntu 9.10, Chromium 5.0.343.0.
Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 50mm Macro f/2.8 [1/200, 50mm, f/2.8, ISO 100] + Flash Sigma EF-500 (RAWTherapee + GIMP).
Download as wallpaper 1680×1050
Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 [1/5, 10mm, f/4, ISO 200]
Some time ago I discovered, that some wallpapers on the web are mostly the same, but slightly differs — for example snowy or green landscape, sunshine or nightly. I don’t know how with other OS, but Ubuntu Linux (from 9.04) can automatically (and smoothly) change wallpaper in selected time, and these format is open (heh, that’s Open Source, dude!). Also, there are lots of Geocoding web-services to get sunset and sunrise time at your location. So why don’t use it and create such geo-cozy mashup for our desktop?
Let’s use great wallpapers from Yoritsuki and Vacation 2008: Into the Sky from HybridWorks.JP.
See, download, install and give your feedback.
7.11.2009, Kyiv | Occasionally, I’ve got photographer position at Mediacamp Kyiv’09. So, here are some shots from there, just after slight post-processing. Take a look (and see BarCamp Caucasus 2008 session). Heavy traffic: Read the rest of this entry »
