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Local photography, National rants, Zero navel-gazing allowed… Blogging from Hopkinsville, KY

Month: August 2007

  • New wakeups from usb_hcd_poll_rh_status in 2.6.23-rc4

    It seems other people are experiencing the same thing. Unfortunately, that guy didn’t get a response. Both of these readings were taken with no Xorg or Wifi running. The laptop is a Pentium M Centrino model. kernel 2.6.22-hrt6 PowerTOP 1.8 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running)…

  • hrtimers is DA BOMB!

    Last night, I patched a vanilla 2.6.22 kernel with the hrtimers code and I’m still finding all the magic things it can do. Two of the biggest things are the cpuidle governor and hpet support. cpuidle “menu” governor allows the cpu to drop into the lowest C-state possible without passing through any other states. The…

  • gnome-games, Oh My!

    Gentoo just stabilized Gnome 2.18, everybody should avoid the Expat landmine by running revdep-rebuild after the upgrade to avoid breakage from occuring. However, the Gnome upgrade is only tangently related to my problem. Of course, after I –sync’ed there was ~70 packages waiting to be installed. Digging through the install list I found a lot…

  • omg, my first paypal account!!!1!!1one

    Up until a few days ago I did not have my own paypal account (shocking!). What changed my mind was the talk on the Security Now! podcast about PayPal’s new keychain device. Steve Gibson and Leo recently completed a long series on authentication (SN90, SN94, SN95, SN98, SN101, SN103). Which, looking back, the security key…