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Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by anom9999 »

curun1r wrote: post #111
leni536 wrote: post #91

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I think using nice or renice is better practice. Hard throttling is way more inefficient.

It may be, but it doesn't solve some of the problems that cputhrottle does. My main use for cputhrottle is to limit the CPU usage of Flash. It's not that I want to use the CPU for something else, at least not at the moment, but I don't want my laptop's fans to turn on, the whole thing to heat up and it to kill my battery life. [re]nice will only allow another process to get CPU priority, it won't keep the CPU utiliza…

Only yesterday I was raging at Flash for continually chewing up my CPU and RAM. I hadn't even considered setting limits on the processes. So thank you for the suggestion.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by tehwalrus »

endgame wrote: post #138
mouhtasi wrote: post #136

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I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.

And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.

Hover-focus is great on tiling window managers, but I'm not sure I'd react well to it where windows overlap by design.

Also, don't forget that OS X lets you scroll whatever window your mouse is over, even if it is "blurred" (not in focus). This is the one feature that I miss most whenever I need to use Windows.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

#153

Post by tehwalrus »

curun1r wrote: post #111
leni536 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think using nice or renice is better practice. Hard throttling is way more inefficient.

It may be, but it doesn't solve some of the problems that cputhrottle does. My main use for cputhrottle is to limit the CPU usage of Flash. It's not that I want to use the CPU for something else, at least not at the moment, but I don't want my laptop's fans to turn on, the whole thing to heat up and it to kill my battery life. [re]nice will only allow another process to get CPU priority, it won't keep the CPU utiliza…

Flash is running an event engine like JS under there. Your comment made it occur to me that they might busywait, rather than having a proper scheduler. This seems insanely lazy.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

#154

Post by tehwalrus »

kozukumi wrote: post #62

Nice idea and app. Having a quick look at the code I had forgotten how much work needed to be done for old-skool Windows applications. They do give you great lean applications though which is something I miss. I will always have a soft spot for small, lean single function applications. I guess it takes me back to my UNIX days. Some of my favourite more modern programs are SumatraPDF, uTorrent (the older 2.x versions)…

Sumatra PDF is the best. I actually prefer it, running under wine, to any of the Linux PDF readers I've tried. I used I to write/preview my thesis.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

#155

Post by chimprich »

tehwalrus wrote: post #152
endgame wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.

Hover-focus is great on tiling window managers, but I'm not sure I'd react well to it where windows overlap by design. Also, don't forget that OS X lets you scroll whatever window your mouse is over, even if it is "blurred" (not in focus). This is the one feature that I miss most whenever I need to use Windows.

There's a couple of free Windows programs that compensate for this. http://superuser.com/questions/110700/making-a-mouse-scroll-...

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by scotty79 »

NamTaf wrote: post #122

Great app but I have one request. Can you please modify it so instead of pausing the game until my SO is done talking, it pauses my SO until my game is done its cutscene? Thanks in advance.

Try this: http://placebobutton.com/ It was featured on HN recently.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by 7Z7 »

endgame wrote: post #138
mouhtasi wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.

And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.

I, and many of the thousand or so Linux users at my company, disagree!

The only people here who really seem to like it are the ones using drawing-tablets as their main input.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by geon »

robbiep wrote: post #150
geon wrote: post #145

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450 kwords? That's like 2-3 large novels...

1984 was around 85,000 words (from memory). So 5 times that

Wolfram Alpha says average word length in English is 5.1 chars.

450000 words * 5.1 bytes ≈ 2.2 MiB

I like to read novels on my phone in plaintext format. 2001 by Clarke is 368 kiB. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is 1.1 MiB.

1984 would be 423 kiB, which I consider pretty normal, not "large". But that's subjective, I guess.

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