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

Month: October 2007

  • Useful scripting from a non-expert

    I’m not a programmer. It’s almost embarrassing how long it takes me to write a short script, but I am learning as I find new tasks that are scriptable. Finding scriptable tasks was my problem during my first attempts at learning Python while I was still on Windows. I remember learning Python and experimenting with…

  • Just passing through…

    From Trail of Tears Motorcycle Trip I’m writing this from my hotel room in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The locals call this place Hop Town. As far as I can tell, there’s not a lot of hopping going on around here. It’s a nice enough town. It has the usual collection of WalMarts, Starbucks, and other chain…

  • CFS change causes CPU insomnia

    Continuing on from previous thoughts about why Linux 2.6.23 sleeps in shallow cpu idle states with Wifi active. I finally have it narrowed down to a scheduler change after v2.6.23-rc3. On an idle system with no Xorg started but Wifi active the CPU remains in the C2 state unneccessarily. PowerTOP 1.8 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation…