Archive for August, 2007:

Making Parallels less of a CPU Hog when Idle.

By andy
Published on August 16th, 2007
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Clever Dave likes Parallels for development, but doesn’t like that it is a cpu hog. An idle vm swallowed up 40-50% of cpu on his new Macbook.
He had the idea that reducing the speed of the kernel clock to 100MHz might make the idle vm less resource hungry, so we tested it out. Changing [...]

Mastercard Securecode Rant.

By andy
Published on August 5th, 2007
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I ranted on the Ecommerce Experts mailing list earlier in the week after canceling an order on a cabling website, after it prompted me to enroll in Mastercard Securecode, with no way out.
My gripes are that

The general public should NOT be encouraged to enter their secret personal data at a checkout, in random popups.  The [...]