Well, the last three days straight I’ve been celebrating christmas at parties with friends and clients, and all I have to say is thank you everyone for making this such a great holiday season. I’ve never felt so loved as I do this year, and it has just been great. To all my friends thanks for the presents, and good times.
Have a safe and happy holidays everyone, and make sure you leave cookies and milk out for santa
I’ve been noticing some interesting behaviours in my favourite programs as of late. First let’s start with iTunes, with each subsequent version of iTunes I have noticed an increase in memory usage, and generally the application has become bloated in my eyes. As of right now just starting iTunes and playing music nothing else the application uses roughly 60-70 mbs of ram.
I can’t believe that an application that used to be a simple mp3 player has turned into such a memory hog. Unfortunately there are not many other alternatives that offer the type of interface that I so thoroughly enjoy in iTunes, and Windows Media Player which I used previously is really no better.
Another application I’ve noticed that’s started to suck up more memory is Firefox. With version 1.5 I’ve noticed that if I leave it opened with multiple tabs open memory usage slowly increases with it usually peaking around 120-130mbs of ram.
Although this is not really a scientific manner of detailing memory usage of applications it is just something I have started to take note of and it makes me wonder, is the proliferation of large memory machines causing us to be become more lax with our memory management?
My box currently has 1gig of very fast dual channel 2-2-2-2 timed OCZ ram. Most basic machines now days come with at least 512mbs of ram, with most mid-level computers coming with 1gb. With machines containing more and more memory it is a lot easier to get away with a couple of applications leaking memory and not even notice a hit in performance.
The problem starts when many applications start to adopt this lax memory management technique and soon enough your 1gb of ram is completely inadequate, and for the wrong reasons.
Going through school I have even noticed a lot of teachers taking a more lax approach to penalizing students for memory leaks in their program. In a couple of my classes a couple of teachers addressed memory management as a thing of the past. A favourite quote was “With 512mbs of memory you don’t need to worry about it”.
So you may ask yourself what’s the point of this? It’s been talked about to death, well this is true but to be honest I have never really been bothered by it because I’ve always managed to stay a head of the hardware curve. I’m finding that incredibly more difficult now with these types of applications.
The sad part is I’m finding most of the problems coming from non-Microsoft based applications, and although I know they have an insider advantage when it comes to memory management on their own operating system, I hardly think it is to the level where their applications can use up to 3/4 less ram then open source competitors.
I think the first step in addressing this problem is to let the developers of these applications know that their applications are sucking our valuable memory up, and to let them know that is is unacceptable, so that they pickup their socks and get this stuff right.
Yesterday I went to see Gwen Stefani with Ciara at the ACC, and let me tell you the concert was absolutely amazing. We had great floor seats about 15 rows back from the stage, and both Gwen and Ciara put on a good show. Although Ciara wasn’t singing all the time she did a good job, I don’t think I would pay to see her by herself but she was a good support act for Gwen.
Gwen was absolutely amazing, I was totally blown away. Her dancers were phenomenal she had these amazing break dancers that definetly spiced the show up. She had some pretty amazing outfits as well that definetly let you see a lot of her. Her stage presence was intense, and you could really tell that she wanted to be there.
I would definetly see her again, this was definetly one of my top 5 concerts of this year, but lord knows she couldn’t come close to Oasis, Coldplay, or Kanye, but she came a close 4th.
Well I’ve decided it’s time for Ctech to get a proper logo, and knowing how amazing I am at using photoshop and illustrator I thought I’d do it myself. On a sidenote, this is a complete exageration, I’m actually awful with both and instead I’m just super cheap. Instead of paying a professional to create something for me I’d rather take twice as long, but get it for free. Not to mention the idea of having someone who knows nothing about your company designing the most personal aspect of your companies image does not sit very well with me.
Well without further a due here are the designs so far there are two:
To explain them a little bit so you get an understanding the first one incorporates a symbol that I came up with while waiting for a class. The symbol is actually a backward block letter C and a T merged together. I thought this was kind of a cool idea since it actually has to do with the name of the company, and it looks cool.
The second design is something just off the cuff. The box holds really no significance other then something visually appealing.
So far I personally like number 1 better, but I have not finalized the design on the CT combo. I’m still grappling with some ideas about the outline and such.
Anyways I guess it’s time to go back and continue studying for my dreaded exams.