PulseAudio : Hate and Hate (pathetic audio)

Why the fuck does ubuntu need pulseaudio, everything seemed to work so well "WITHOUT" it!!! After removing the damn thing it seems xbmc worked much better on my system, before I had to kill it before launching xbmc. Had some troubles with boxee too, but after removing PA it works much better now.

All I can say is PulseAudio = Pathetic Audio

No one wants you PulseAudio so scram!!!

killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

IE 8 beta FAIL!

Firefox 3.2 Alpha now out!

Firefox 3.2 Alpha release is now available! Not sure yet what is new with this release but I'm sure to give it a try, might break a lot of extensions though.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Dyndns not forwarding

This is odd is seems dyndns has stopped forwarding sitegeisha.dyndns.dk to my server, however I tried using SSH using sitegeisha.dyndns.dk and it work, also tried ftp and it worked, tried accessing using other ports and it also worked.

I also checked to see if port 80 was accessible from the outside and it was okay. http://www.canyouseeme.org/

WTF is going on???!!!

Youtube Cache with Squid + Lighttpd on Ubuntu

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Fastest browser on earth!

I do hope you've already switched to Firefox or something a lot better than IE. However there is something else faster than Firefox at the moment and I JUST can't wait for it to get out of alpha/beta!!! It's Firefox Minefield

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

They got the fastest javascript engine in the planet at the moment, if you go give it a try enable JIT by typing about:config in the url bar and then search for jit. Then set:

javascript.options.jit.chrome;true
javascript.options.jit.content;true

And there you have it, you'll be surfing faster than Google Chrome, but if you want to test your extensions make sure you try and install the nightly addon to override the compatibility settings.


Sunspider Javascript benchmark result

FF3.1b2
Total: 1270.6ms +/- 2.0%

Google Chrome
Total: 1970.0ms +/- 0.6%

FF3.0.3
Total: 2710.0ms +/- 1.1%

IE8 B2
Total: 7600.6ms +/- 0.3%

Lighttpd - light and fast web server

I've used IIS, then Apache on windows, then switched to LAMP and now I'm on LLMP and couldn't be much happier! Lighttpd lives up to its name, it is fast and easy on server resources. Learning it wasn't so bad, I actually found plenty of resources on the web and the configuration is actually much simpler than apache, also I didn't have to rely on webmin to configure it now.

Here's how I configured Lighttpd to run on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex with xcache, memcache and mysql.

To be continued...