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I’ve been really getting things done today. Not as much as i wanted, but pretty much anyway. I sent out few job applications and resigned from school. Still much more to do this week..

Anyway, reason why i’m posting again, is that i got this site to the condition i’ve wanted it to be for quite some time. I’ve cleaned much of language errors (not all obviously), made few pages easier to read and used iframe to insert my recordslist properly to the page. Yea. I know it sounds stupid, but i haven’t done anything like that before. Now it’s easier to keep up to date. So i guess you’ll see latest updates this week. Count is now about 1057 items, and i guess it had really much to do with me working all the time. I personally think that 150-200 records per year is something i consider enough to keep collection growing,  and still be able to avoid buying bad records. That’s right. I’m collecting music, not records. Of coure there’s occasional first pressing here and there, some records i might even have doubles as different pressings or same record as cd and vinyl. But still. It’s about the music. Not about the pressings.

So. Welcome to my finally updated blog-page, and if you’re hiring, check me out. I’m all out for work!

.updated some content.

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My cv on whoami-page is (finally) up to date. And yes. So is whole whoami-page. Also, i cleaned few posts for better language.

My recent additions to record collection are couple of 7′’s i got from a friend of mine as he had doubles of these…

  • Psyched To Die – Sterile Walls 7” EP (Grave Mistake 2009)
  • No System – Dead Bands Tell No Lies 7” EP (NoWay 2008 – pressing of unreleased stuff from around ‘85)

Anyways. Thanks for all my loved ones, family and friends for putting up with me in these days of uncertainty.

.ok. .time to re-vistit earlier results.

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Yea.

My earlier browser test showed that midori with webkit was fastest on linux. Well. Not anymore.

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Since we’ve last seen, i’ve installed opera 10 beta 2 (as you can see in my little update on original post) and  chromium – the unstable testing version for linux. Chromium is the original project on Google’s Chrome-browser which is still not distributed on linux. It’s still missing some really important features as …well… all plugins… Including interfaces for such small components as adobe’s flash and adblock. But o’boy, is it fast…

I was positively impressed about Opera 10 Beta 2’s points on  this test. Well, i guess i shouldn’t have been.

Opera 10 is still in progress and we’ll have to wait to get chromium to work on our open source systems.

Anyway. In conclusion:
Opera 10 Beta 2
logo operaPeacekeeper speed test score: 647
Acid3 test: 100/100
Nutshell: Kills FF3-series with flying colours, but still far away from real success. Sorry opera. You were my best bet until this summer… This time i think that even fanciest add-agency can’t save you now.

Chromium 3.0.197.0 (0)
chrome-logoPeacekeeper speed test score: 1924
acid3 test: 100/100
Nutshell: Kills everyone else, but is still not usable. Ok, not, if you want to use windows. Faster than any other browser around. Still it misses usability on OSS systems. Can’t quite see how this helps google… Still..  Almost twice as fast as fastest on my first tryout.

Still. only winner in this race is Mozilla Firefox 3.5, which offers browsing that is fast and lets you use everything that you need, like Flash. And Adblock.

Just to add more juice to this one-man conversation:

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As you can see only usable browsers are FF3.5 and Opera 10 beta 2.

One last thing.. all these browsers are build on different things.

Opera 10 beta 2 still uses qt3 as it’s windowing agent. Which is natively used by legacy release of KDE.

Firefox (or shiretoko) builds it’s windows on XUL, which is not a bad thing (although its not perfectly usable with Gnome nor KDE).

Chromium builds it’s own windows.  ye. it doesn’t respect anything that OSS community has built over all these years. So. If you have OSX theme set-up on your Gnome-desktop, you’ll still have chromium draw it’s minimize:maximize:close at inconvenient way for all Win way.

So. that’s all for browsers today. My suggestion is that you’ll use FF3.5 until something else proves it’s worthy.

Anyway. this week i’ve been mostly listening to two things…
first is The Fest 7 compilation (ye i know it’s old news…) and next is the amazing shit from my friends from Kiuruvesi.. Their new, third album is shockingly fucking great. Just music from real life in finland. Buy it if you get your hands around it. If not buy it anyway. You’ll find contacts from their myspace.

Ok. That’s it for now kids.

.bout browsers.

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Hiya.

I guess i was just bored and slightly hung over, i was reading some few months old MB-magazine and noticed site review about futuremark’s peacekeeper. So. I installed missing browsers and ran the tests. I guess it’s safe to say that my desktop machine is not in the latest technology, but i think i keep it as it is for, maybe a year or two.

Anyway. To the results.

I’m running Ubuntu on AMD Athlon 2×64 4480e with abit Motherboard and 2gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 ram.

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As you can see, Midori won with flying colors. I’m really surprised, that Opera 10’s beta was the worst of the bunch with only 529 points, being even slower than firefox 3.0.11 on this machine. In this case “Shiretoko” is unbranded Firefox 3.5, and i guess that this is the one i’ll be using on my home computer from now on.

Let’s dig a bit deeper before calling any conclusions. Let’s start from the bottom.

Opera 10.00 (beta)

logo opera

This is really nice browser, with lots and lots of features. I’ve been mostly using latest 9 series browser for nearly two years. Opera is flexible and easy to configure with .ini files, and you can basically do anything with it. It’s sad side is that Opera really needs new advertising agency. Red “O” is just plain ugly. Not to mention this speedtest. Well, it’s still just beta, and i’ll hope O10 comes around for final release. I didn’t want to reinstall 9.64 for testing. Mainly because 10 is just so much more in many ways.

(i think that 9.64 would still be best bet today…)

Opera is free to download and use, but it’s still proprietary software. Site offers builds for most OS’s.

Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 529

Acid3 test result: 100/100 PASS

Epiphany 2.22

logo_epiphany

Nice work from gnome project. Actually, this is the only browser that uses Gtk libraries natively, so it fits gnome desktop environment like a glove. Saddly, it’s still in it’s infancy, so adblock etc. plugins are missing. Easy to use, like all gnome apps. Good, but slightly slow browser. Honestly i can’t use it, because that missing adblock feature. Just can’t live with adds.

Gnome project works on Epiphany. Runs on linux. And is Open Source.

Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 609

Acid2 test result: 73/100

Firefox 3.0.11

logho_firefox

Classic. This is The Browser. Widely used and spread. Ease of use in cool package. Can’t say much about it. Everyone knows the brand and many believe in it. I think that everyone prefers FF over IE in their home computers. If some needed feature is missing, there is always some add-on to replace that need.

Firefox is open source, though it’s brand is licenced. Current version is 3.5.

Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 610

Acid3 test results: 71

Shiretoko 3.5

logo_shiretoko

Like i stated earlier. Shiretoko is Firefox 3.5. Just unbranded. All add-ons are not yet available for latest version, but like always, they will be. Soon. And yes. It’s faster than previous versions. Saddly, it doesn’t pass acid3 test, though it’s close.

Firefox is open source, though it’s brand is licenced. Use the current version. Always.

Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 811

Acid3 test results: 93/100

Midori 1.27 (instead of claimed mozilla)

logo_midori

Fastest in my little test. Browser dies immediately, when i enter facebook. Ok. It doesn’t die, but it starts limping. I guess that engine is just not enough to run more sophisticated scripts. Amazingly fast in normal browsing though. Strange behaviour with FB from webkit, don’t you think?

Midori is open source and runs on linux.

Peacekeeper benchmark speed test results: 1178

Acid3 test results: 100/100 PASS

Still waiting for Google’s chrome to come out for linux. And secondly, i can’t quite understand why Apple doesn’t build Safari for linux…

Blah. It’s six on saturday evening already. I think this article is finished.

-update-

I just installed Opera 10 beta 2 (build 4492) and now opera 10 offers 647 points. Just going over FF3-series. Better, but not good enough….

opera647.png

Just can’t wait for first RC. My dear opera, you’re just a bit behind, comparing to your your worst competitor.

.on today.

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On this beautiful summerlike day, 17.05.2009, i am pleased to announce that my record collection has finally reached it’s first major milestone. 1000 items.

These three were the ones that broke the limit…

1. The Accidents – Poison Chalice (Burning Heart, 2005)

2. Screeching Weasel – Major Label Debut ep (Panic Button, 1997)

3. Western Addiction – Cognicide (FAT, 2005)

The list is updated, but i just can’t get myself to work on search-script and why internal css isn’t working.

I just got my darling back from her weekend of work on far away places, and i’ve got few other things on my mind, rather than fixing the code. (more important things would be cookin’ eatin’ watchin SVU..) Maybe later.

Anyway. 17.05.2009. A 1000 records. I’m pretty happy.

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