Woa woa. I just did my 500th skydive on Saturday the 20th. 9/20/08. All I have to say is “w00t”! This particular skydive was very fun. Lynn, Jamie & Marty were on my 500th. It also happened to be Jamie’s 800th. Very good timing =) Basically a screw off dive, built a round then we all dropped a knee and spun until we couldn’t hold on to eachother. We were then flung around the sky and we sorta rebuilt before breakoff.
Switch to baselayout-2 and openrc..the speed up is noticeable. Especially if you enable rc_parallel="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. Anyway, others have wrote about it already, including a bootchartd of before and after here. Anyway, this should be hitting stable soonish and when it does be sure to read the migration guide because some things have indeed changed. For me, I count to 10 slowly and my laptop is at the xdm prompt…very cool and good job [Roy][3]!
Awesome? No, definitely not. I use the “oldbar” addon now which brings back the firefox-2 like address bar. You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 Note that it is still the ff-3 algorithm but the display is modified. YMMV, but I like it.
Update: (04/14/11) I see that freehg now links to an adult site. Hence, I have removed all the links. Just a small post to document the options with regards to “free” mercurial repo hosting. Many options are located on mercurial’s homepage here. I choose to compare offerings from [bitbucket][2] and freehg. I was rooting for freehg in my comparisons because they sound more “free” Anyway, the numbers don’t lie. %% time hg push http://freehg.org/u/jolexa/personal/ pushing to http://freehg.org/u/jolexa/personal/ searching for changes no changes found real 0m4.221s user 0m0.103s sys 0m0.011s vs %% time hg push http://bitbucket.org/jolexa/personal/ pushing to http://bitbucket.org/jolexa/personal/ searching for changes no changes found real 0m0.665s user 0m0.109s sys 0m0.011s and..
I know, cliche as this post may be…I remember all too well where I was on Sept 11th. US History class in 9th grade. Sitting in the desks watching CNN. I think this is real touching and a very good job by Team Fastrax, a skydiving team of really experienced canopy pilots. Original post can be seen [here][1] on the PD blog. They are jumping at ground zero with 7 US flags of various sizes trailing thier canopies.