I am going to start posting interesting graphs from the web and discuss them in a new section called GRAPHS. The first installment comes from The Economist.
Boy, Americans have not felt great about their country's direction for most of the last 8 years. The current economic crisis which could easily last for another two years will only add to people's blues. I think a possible Obama presidency could give this country a mild jolt of happiness and optimism. But, as long as this country remains mired in its unsustainable ways, the blues are here to stay.
It takes more than 30 seconds for acroread to load on my Opensuse machine the first time and the startup time gets shorter in subsequent attempts. Why? This is not the first time I have come across this problem of slow application startups in OpenSuse. Apparently a lot of people had encountered this problem and they found a simple solution - uninstalling the version of acroread that comes with OpenSuse and installing one from Adobe site yourself. Fortunately, that prescription seems to have solved the problem. My acroread startup time is a few seconds now. Why does a very good Linux distribution like OpenSuse with its wide support and following make so many of these mistakes?!?! Over the years, I have seen Suse/OpenSuse sending buggy distributions that make you wonder if they do much testing before releasing their distro. Here are a few bugs I have come across: The extremely slow startup of Openoffice in OpenSuse 10.0 was one of the reasons I switched to Fedora Core for a while...
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