Archive for July, 2007

Testing Joost

July 23, 2007

Bingo. After some days waiting I finally got a invitation for joost. It is not like I was drooling for one or something like that. I was only curious. Let’ s get to it. The program is quite simple and has no configuration for what I can see. Even a drunken monkey could install it and put it to work. Im talking about Mac OS X. I suppose in MSWindos is equally stupid. No client for Linux. Bad, bad program. No cookie for you.

Joost-test1>

The program uses an OSD that resembles the VLC one. As I said, nice and not complicated.

Joost-test2

And now comes the bad news. As I was using it I could hear the CPU fan of my macbook revving up. Guess what, the program is using 50% of CPU. Not bad.

Joost-test3

Now Im really pissed. If I have a laptop i is precisely because it is silent and has a battery that last at least some hours. Why would I like to run something like this and burn my balls watching TV on my couch?. What I cannot understand is that a computer with 2 Gz core duo and 2 Gb of RAM pukes so miserably to run this program. I confess that I have no idea . Maybe it is the XULrunner engine, maybe it is the Intel video chip (that we all know it is crappy). Normally this laptop plays Xvid with videolan using 10% of CPU as an average, so it is not simply a problem of video output. The same happens with Youtube player. Some minutes of playing are enough to warm the CPU up.

What Im trying to say is that I do not understand why some programs use so much CPU to do things that are apparently not so demanding. Maybe Im missing something here or maybe it is simply that people do not care if some program takes over CPU to do a trivial thing.

Yeah. I know. For those of you who saw the Skype icon. THAT is one of those programs as well. I do not run it all the time, but I have observed too that completely screws ACPI sleep times.

Bottomline. I will never use joost in the laptop.

Do not want (iPhone)

July 17, 2007

Dedicado a Marianitu

 

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Visto en Reddit. El post completo aqui. A ver si alguien pone las cosas en su sitio de una vez, que en yankilandia tienen un empacho de iphone solo comparable a la sobredosis diaria de ipod. La i debe der de inopia.

The ministry of silly e-mails presents…

July 16, 2007
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Cosas que se cuelan por el filtro y que son spam, pero que no son spam.
Y lo peor de todo es que no se ni lo que intentan vender. El caso es al rato de verlo me ha dado por escuchar Spamradio. Ya se que es chungo pero peor es la Cope. No se por que ahora tengo unas ganas irresistibles de comprame un Rolex

Las prisas no son buenas para nada

July 5, 2007

Visto en chandalismo

Es más, creo que hace años se decía “lo quiero para ayer” y estoy seguro que en poco tiempo será “lo quiero para la semana pasada”

A este paso aparte de un macintosh vamos a necesitar un DeLorean para entregar los trabajos a tiempo.

Hijo, no sabes la razon que tiene. A mi me saldria mas a cuenta directamente crearme un agujero de gusano. Lo que pasa es que si hiciese los trabajos antes de que me los pidiese el jefe eso crearia una paradoja temporal y las consecuencias serian desastrosas.

Aviso a navegantes

July 5, 2007

 

No se si os pasara a todos o que. Pero en el ultimo update de Mac OS para mi macbook, que incluía acojonantes novedades como el soporte de iTunes para iPhone (maldita la falta que me hace) también incluía una actualización de firmware para la unidad óptica. La actualización bien, gracias. Pero ahora cada vez que arranco me sale el update intentando volver a meter el firmware. Supongo que cargándome la aplicación en /applications/utilities debería dejar de darme la lata.

Punto negativo para OS X. Te quedan dos telediarios en cuando solucione el tema de l EFI. De todas formas es raro porque no veo que sea un problema general. Igual es algo que hice durante el update. Go figure