Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up late; into the market / more bits from the hardware shop, on the bouncy castle - rather a nice toy hand-held air-gun which fires paint-balls on sale; neat.
Lunch, spent some hours removing festering mould riddled silicone sealant from round the bath & replacing it with a mould resistant version, with a new shower fitting; hopefully might encourage someone to rent the house.

Peered at IRC; encouraged to see this display

<Oooluver> <Oooluver> Hi9 Michael
<Oooluver> Do you know anything about OpenOffice.org's performance?
<Oooluver> Why do you blame glibc, gcc, the kernel, the phase of the moon,
ad nauseum -- when there are plenty of examples of fast apps under Linux?
<Oooluver> Why keep pointing the blame like a mardy infant?
<Oooluver> OpenOffice.org is a vast, kludgy, overgrown, dilapidated codebase,
and no amount of finger-pointing will correct that
<Oooluver> When MS Office under WINE on Linux is faster than OO.o, you know
you have a problem
<Oooluver> I have some benchmarks here: http://benchmarks.on.nimp.org/ooo/
<Oooluver> They show MS Office load times in Windows, WINE on Linux, WINE
on FreeBSD, and OOo native respectively

When anonymous cowards are annoyed enough to send you personalised discouraging spam - with links to popup-bombs, something must be going right. Of course the fact that OO.o starts faster under WINE than Linux on the same machine seems not to feature. The more I read of the OO.o code, the more sense much of it makes, but its true - slower than 'ls', though ls -R /usr is pretty turgid.

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2005-11-12: Saturday