Since I normally need to test different applications (almost all of them built with CakePHP ) to make sure they work on different browsers (including IE7), I've recently installed VMWare over my Ubuntu Hardy to use Windows XP. This is how my desktop looks like when running it (click on the image to get the larger version): You can see the excellent htop command showing that for some reason at that precise moment my Processor #1 was at 100% while Processor #2 was resting at a 15% :) Original post blogged on b2evolution . ...