Recap
Ok, I haven’t posted anything for two months and two days, but I’ve had my reasons.
Slightly after my last post (about silly bugs in IE), I had umpteen projects to finish (the website the post was about was one of them) and umpteen tests to study for. (The last week of school, I had four tests…) I wasted a lot of time doing nothing, but it all turned out well… Then I had a lot of free time before I graduated on June 13. I used that free time to work a bit on Amarok, learning more Qt on the way.
I got a lot of presents for my graduation, including a lot of money. I only had those money for two days before buying myself a laptop on June 15. An Acer TravelMate 4202WLMi. It’s got everything you could ask for, except TV-out, but it works flawlessly in Kubuntu (Linux). The speed of its Core Duo CPU amazes me, it compiles about 3-5 times faster than my desktop computer.
It has taken me until now to set it up correctly, but now I’m totally happy with the results. The reason why it took so long is because I had to look up a lot of info, but in the end, the fixes I applied were only trivial. I’m sitting in our garden right now, posting this via WLAN (802.11g)
The laptop, called “Barbacola” currently dual boots Windows® XP Professional and Kubuntu Dapper, and that won’t change in the near future, it’s just perfect as it is right now.
//Firetech
Update(July 1 2006):
Ok, I measured the times taken to compile Amarok from a cleaned source tree. The results are… well… Shocking!
Barbaque (my desktop) compiled Amarok in just about 16 minutes.
Barbacola (the laptop) compiled Amarok in exactly 4 minutes, when running single threaded (I.E. only one core used). That’s four times faster, but later I found the -j option to unsermake (well, make too…) and recompiled with -j 2. When the new time appeared, I was stunned. 2 minutes and 41 seconds. I even ran it one more time to check, and then I got 2:40… Exactly 6 times faster. That laptop is QUICK!
You can guess which computer I do my hacking on…