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For today’s vehicle design concept I thought it would be better to take a short break from futuristic cars and present something more down to earth (water if you’d please). Check out this speedy yacht. Yep, we’re now breaking the waves with this fast boat designed by BMT Nigel Gee.

The Mother My mother have been using Ubuntu on her desktop PC since just after Ubuntu 7.04 has been released. My mother doesn’t do much on her PC, she manages photos, browses the web, reads e-mail, keeps in touch with Pidgin and plays the occasional game. About 3 months ago, she bought a new laptop with Vista.

Htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It gives you detailed information such as CPU and RAM usage of your running processes. It becomes a very handy tool to make sure your system performing well. It is very similar to the top command only it gives much more information.

Recently I noticed my computer had been slowed down. Which was weird because I use Linux and Linux isn’t supposed to slow down over time. So I opened up my system monitor and noticed I was at 100% CPU. But I couldn’t figure out what was eating all my memory. It looked like this, and as you can see not all 100% was accounted for…..