I would hardly call myself a rock fan, yet from time to time, I need my “shot” simply to bring some balance, I guess. 😉 But who does not love that Megadeth aka Duke Nukem theme song?
So once more I was listening to it through Youtube when I stumbled upon this “best guitar improvisation ever” thing. 13M hits, mm.. 🙂
Check this out. Gotta love this guy 😉
I read in the description of some other vid he uses EZDrummer for his drums but I’ve seen him doing some neat stuff with the keyboard too.
Month: April 2010
Monitoring resources
Every linux user is familiar with (h)top to monitor processes for cpu usage. Its spin-off tools are a lot less commonly known: iotop for monitoring io,iftop for monitoring network traffic, ftop for file monitoring.. (am I missing any other?).
Another interesting one, particularly if you’re on a mobile device, is powertop for monitoring power consumption. I remember when Intel announced its work on a smaller energy footprint for Intel devices back in 2007 but forgot about it since my kernel didn’t support it yet anyway. 🙂
Although the research was focused on Intel hardware, it is quite useful for other cpu’s like AMD. In that case, powertop is not able to calculate the power usage, but it can still show the number of wake-ups per second per process and how much time is spent in each power state.
Dependency walker for linux
If you’re developing on Windows and experiencing DLL hell, Dependency Walker can come in handy.
On linux, you would typically use ldd for that, but a gui can make it a more pleasurable experience, that’s what ElfLibViewer provides. Had to patch it though to make it useful for color-blind people 😉
