Current electricity demand 52GW+, up 2GW on yesterday.
Lovely still bright crisp winters day, how much is wind providing? Less than 0.6GW... And I see we are exporting power to the French to pass onto the Germans? B-)
Wouldn't be surprised to see the late afternoon spike in demand get over 55GW today.
If I believed in God, I would take the fact that since wind farms have become commonplace, the UK has tended to get hit by very still, cold winters, as proof that He has a sense of humour, at least.
Oh, and those still hot days, when everybody wants to run their aircon too ....
odd. gridwatch shows OK on Firefox 8.0 on Linux, but Firefox 10 in a virtual machine running XP shows all meters at zero. IE 8.0 on the same virtual machine works.
the odd thing yesterday was that we were importing as much from Holland as we were exporting to France..don't they have an extension cable somewhere they can plug in?
Nice to see the nukes running just about flat out - looks like all the maintenance and refuelling is done and the colder seas are scraping a few hundred MW more out of the condensors.
"We took the decision to take unit 7 at Hinkley Point B power station offline today (Wednesday, 1 February) at 0230hrs for planned maintenance," a spokeswoman said, declining to give a restart date.
It seems to be 'out there'; I just installed slackware on a machine this morning - which came with FF 8.x bundled - and the first time I ran it, it said that 10.x was the latest version and offered to download it for me.
(comments on whether it's worth having vs. 8.x are welcome; I like sercurity fixes, of course, but some FF releases just seem to add bloat and gimmicky features without really doing anything useful)
Oh.. that's odd .. mine says 'up to date' and yet the mozilla site says
10.0 is the latest and greatest - I am on 9.1
I'll try and find the source release.. Debian is still on version
3.something last time I looked.
Its got a bit better on memory management the last couple of releases but there are sill memory leaks I think. I have to occasionally shut down to clear the swap space out..
I think they stagger the update notifications from the browsers. Give it a day and it might auto-update. Mine did first thing this morning.
I installed firefox on Debian 6, manually back at version 4 (not from source, but from their supplied binary) and it's auto-updated sine then.
Probably the plugins more than anything else. I run very "plugin-lite" and while it grows over time, it seems to stabilise at about 1GB after a few weeks - but then it starts to get slow - I think there is some internal innefficiencies in the memory allocator/garbage routines...
Currently very low, relatively speaking:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11969 gordon 20 0 667m 303m 30m S 14 15.2 125:02.52 firefox
thats with 3 windows, a few dozen tabs and only adblock+, flashblocker and ghostery enabled. Not done too much browsing today.
Sorry, missed the 'X11' in your headers, depends if you like installing from tar files, or waiting for your distro (or a 3rd party repo) to catch up ...
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