[ltp] Graphics acceleration for Firefox, does this exist anymore?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Chris Aubrey-Smith <cas194@gmail.com> [2014-04-29 09:48 +0100]:

> On 29/04/14 00:18, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> >X220, Debian Sid
> >00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
> >Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> >
> >I feel like something changed over the last 4 months where video play
> >back through Firefox has been a hog on my X220. Anyone else notice this =
too?
> >
> What, exactly, does 'been a hog' mean?

$ dict hog
11 definitions found

=46rom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and
     meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow,
     Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and
     {Hoggerel}.]
     1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera
        of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of {Sus
        scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called,
        respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker;
        specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
        [1913 Webster]

     Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern
           Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus
           Indicus}.
           [1913 Webster]

     2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
        [1913 Webster]

     3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]

     4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
        ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
        [1913 Webster]

     5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp
        of which paper is made.
        [1913 Webster]

     {Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground},
        etc.

     {Hog caterpillar} (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine
        sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three
        segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to
        make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk moth}.

     {Hog cholera}, an epidemic contagious fever of swine,
        attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance
        on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a
        scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one
        to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law
        (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)

     {Hog deer} (Zool.), the axis deer.

     {Hog gum} (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera}),
        yielding an aromatic gum.

     {Hog of wool}, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep
        of the second year.

     {Hog peanut} (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.

     {Hog plum} (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus {Spondias}
        ({Spondias lutea}), with fruit somewhat resembling plums,
        but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.


     {Hog's bean} (Bot.), the plant henbane.

     {Hog's bread}.(Bot.) See {Sow bread}.

     {Hog's fennel}. (Bot.) See under {Fennel}.

     {Mexican hog} (Zool.), the peccary.

     {Water hog}. (Zool.) See {Capybara}.
        [1913 Webster]

=46rom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Hogging}.]
     1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a
        horse. --Smart.
        [1913 Webster]

     2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
        [1913 Webster]

=46rom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.)
     To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; --
     said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
     [1913 Webster]

=46rom WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hog
      n 1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: {hog},
           {pig}]
      2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
         [syn: {hog}, {hogget}, {hogg}]
      3: domestic swine [syn: {hog}, {pig}, {grunter}, {squealer},
         {Sus scrofa}]
      v 1: take greedily; take more than one's share

=46rom The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 May 2012) [foldoc]:

  hog

     1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to
     eat far more than their share of a system's resources,
     especially those which noticeably degrade interactive
     response.  *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely
     large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves
     (see {pig, run like a}).  More often than not encountered in
     qualified forms, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the
     processor", "hog the disk".  "A controller that never gives up
     the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires."

     2. Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of
     resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
     people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
     how many people use it).  Of course, once disk hogs fill up
     one file system, they typically find some other new one to
     infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important
     new project to complete.


=46rom The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:

  hog
   n.,vt.

          1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat
          far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those whi=
ch
          noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that
          are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully
          slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified for=
ms,
          e.g., memory hog, core hog, hog the processor, hog the disk. "A
          controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the
          bus-hog timer expires."

          2. Also said of people who use more than their fair share of
          resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the peop=
le
          use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many
          people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem,
          they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the
          sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.


=46rom The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:

  HOG, n.  A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and
  serving to illustrate that of ours.  Among the Mahometans and Jews,
  the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for
  the delicacy and the melody of its voice.  It is chiefly as a songster
  that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been
  known to draw tears from two persons at once.  The scientific name of
  this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_.  Mr. Rockefeller did not
  discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.


=46rom Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thesaurus]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hog":
     adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly-god, boar,
     careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross,
     enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand,
     gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut,
     greedyguts, guttler, husky eater, indent, individualist,
     jump a claim, lone wolf, loner, make free with, make use of,
     monopolist, monopolize, narcissist, occupy, overrun, pig, piggy,
     piglet, pigling, porker, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, razorback,
     requisition, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker,
     self-server, shoat, sit on, slattern, sloven, slut, sow, squat on,
     subjugate, suckling pig, swine, take all of, take it all,
     take over, take possession of, take up, temporizer, tie up,
     timepleaser, timeserver, trencherman, trencherwoman, tufthunter,
     tusker, usurp, wild boar


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