Solid Block of Ise

I’m an active member of Seti@home, running the BOINC-client on both the server powering this website as well as my workstation.

The software for crunching these numbers is quite good, but there’s one thing I really miss - the ability to specify idle-time for each core.

As it is, I run Seti on three of my four cores. Unfortunately, it’s all or nothing. I wish there was a way to specify that BOINC uses, say, one core while the computer is active, and when I’m gone and I don’t care about fan-noise and such it uses all three cores alloted to it.

Currently there’s no way of doing that. At least not as far as I know. Now it’s either being annoyed by the CPU-fan while working, or wasting valuable CPU-cycles waiting for the system to go idle.

Although I suppose a third solution would be to buy a better CPU-cooler. I’m running the stock AMD-cooler that came with the processor, and while it’s virtually inaudible it gets rather noisy when the temperature goes up. Right this second it’s spinning at 4500 rpm and sounds a bit like a polish vacuum-cleaner.

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Secondly, I’m not particularly amused by Wordpress 2.5. Yeah, it’s nice and all, but there are a few things that annoy me and that I hope will be corrected in Wordpress 2.5.1

1) There’s no “save and continue editing”-button. Either you wait for it to automatically save your post so you can preview it, or you save it and get dumped into a preview.

When I blog I like to have the preview open in one Firefox-tab and the editor in another. In previous versions this allowed me to quickly edit and preview posts. With 2.5 there’s a lot of shuffling in and out of the admin-interface.

2) The new image/media-uploader is a little confusing. While I greatly welcome the capability to upload multiple files, as well as having more options for thumbnailing, I do find the interface rather confusing.

3) The admin-interface is pretty. But when writing I feel that it was a dumb thing to move categories and such down below the post-field. Several times I’ve forgotten about checking the categories for a post, and had to edit it immediately afterwards. Instead of having it down there, why not use all the whitespace to the right and put it there, like in previous versions?

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