This is becoming a more and more frequent occurance in Opera. Ok, so 395 megabytes of RAM is an extreme case, but at least twice a day, a website causes Opera to become unresponsive, the CPU usage will reach 100% and memory usage will keep climbing.
There doesn’t seem to be any connection between the sites that it occurs on, so I don’t know what to report.
After a deadline extension, my Computer Studies coursework is finally finished. ^_^ Now I can fully concentrate on my revision. Yay. :rolleyes:
As of tomorrow, I am into my final week at Herschel, although realistically with the amount of work I have done over the past few weeks I could have finished a month ago and would be no worse off today.
I decided a few weeks ago that I would also quit smoking on my first day as a ‘free’ man, I’m not sure that it is a good idea with the exams in just over three weeks, I’m going to need to be able to concentrate fully and the cravings might prove too big a distraction, but ultimately I guess I have to do it sometime, and this way I have set a firm date, which I intend to stick to.
The few months have definately been strange, with various things happening that I’m not even sure where to start explaining (so I’m not going to ;)), and have been such as rollercoaster ride of emotions, but I feel that maybe things are starting to even out, and while it is certainly not the end result that I had been hoping for a few months ago, if I can end with the friendship that has been built over that time it will have been worth it. 
In the next few days the French Senate will vote on a copyright reform bill will which will effectively outlaw DRM, as well as bringing more reasonable fines (€38 to €150) for pirating music.
This whole story has been horribly twisted by the US media, being referred to as a war against Apple and iTunes by the New York Times, and state-sponsored piracy by Apple.
How this bill became an attack on Apple at all I don’t know, the iPod isn’t even the dominant portable media player in France, and it targets DRM in general, so everybody is affected equally. With the US expanding the DMCA to increase the maximum prison sentence for attempted piracy to 10 years, there is finally a country setting sensible laws with the consumers, rather than businesses in mind.
Let me make one thing clear: I don’t condone piracy. But I like freedom, and I don’t believe people are predisposed to break the law. Fair use has been steadily eroded over the past few years, and things are only going to get worse in the future. We have a country which has stepped in, and is trying to pass a law with the consumers interests in mind, rather than those of big businesses. Go after pirates, but those who are doing so as a commercial venture. Don’t sue your customers, really. The concept may seem strange, but trust me, it will make sense if you think about it.
Are people going to start sharing all of their music on peer to peer networks because there are no restrictions on them? Only time will tell, but I feel the answer will be a resounding no. There will always be people who will obtain music illegally, but the vast majority of people are law abiding, and this law serves only to make things easier for them.
I for one hope that this bill is passed into law in France. While it will not have any direct effect on me, it will prove an interesting test case, and hopefully politicians in other countries will sit up and take note.