Archive for June, 2006

Saving a poor chat bot

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

I may have just saved the Encarta Intant Answers® from the claws of evil:

(14:46:20) Ben Jao Ming: You are a Microsoft property
(14:46:21) Encarta® Instant Answers: Isn’t it good to be a Microsoft property?
(14:46:30) Ben Jao Ming: No
(14:46:31) Encarta® Instant Answers: OK, fine.

Notice how it has a trademark symbol in its screen name… that so c00l!

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A quick remark on SUSE 10.1

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Booting is still at 50 sec. Same hardware as my previous test. This is a 0% change.

YaST is very much improved in terms of speed. All those scripts running prior to a system change are now faster. But after installing packages there are still a billion redundant scripts executing. FontConfig!? Postfix!? GDM!? KDM!? Because of installing CVS and Quanta?? No thanks.

Installing from FTP is a pain. 3 times during installation everything hangs apparently because the whole installation source is being reloaded. After installing, the FTP source is reloaded once again. I’m running on 10 mbit and I imagine a 5-15 minute freeze every time this thing is refreshed on connections below 1 mbit.

GTK and QT interfaces are VERY snappy. Better than Ubuntu. And the icon pack is impressive as always – making KDE and Gnome icons look alot better together.

Overall a step forward. But we need a more intelligently trimmed system to beat Vista. My Gentoo installation beats Vista – why can’t anybody make a precomiled Linux distro that does the same!?

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