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powerTOP: CPU governors
“Conservative” Governor 2.1% (10.0) cpufreq-set : cpufreq_governor_dbs (delayed_work_timer_f “Ondemand” Governor 32.2% (50.0) cpufreq-set : queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_ The userspace, performance, powersave governors do not poll automatically therefore powerTOP doesn’t list them. The Ondemand governor is suitable while the laptop is powered by AC. While Conservative or powersave is logical to use on battery mode.
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powerTOP
Intel has released a fascinating new utility that reveals what is preventing the CPU from going to sleep/low power state. A few of the bad actors I found on my system so far are ipw2200, hald, and audacious. hald appears to poll the disk constantly for something so it’s ide0 that appears active but not…
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Enabling wireless encryption
Finally, found the magic option that wasn’t getting enabled in the kernel config. It’s been hit or miss whenever I tried to configure a new kernel whether the wireless would come up the first time. Module Size Used by michael_mic 2176 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip 9536 1 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 5888 1 i915 18880 2 drm 64084 3 i915…
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WinXP sound support
The sound driver on the HP driver disk for my laptop does not work. However, the latest available from the HP website does work.
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Windows Reinstall
Hey, step one is complete for reinstalling WinXP. The GParted LiveCD was very helpful in rearranging all of my partitions. My only complaint is that ipw2200 wireless support is broken for Knoppix 5.1.1. Otherwise, I would have used the Knoppix disk instead. GParted has saved me a couple of times from reinstalling Gentoo because I…
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comment spam digs Web 2.0’s grave
Comments are disabled. So much for all that spiffy Web2.0 business set to take over the world.
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Wireshark 0.99.5 fails on GCC 3.4.6
Wireshark hit a compatibility issue with gcc 3.4.6. For now, wireshark doesn’t compile. A fix will probably be ready soon, but this brings up another issue. I am being held at gcc 3.4.6 by Qemu which has some basic design problems with GCC4. Unfortunately, a permanent fix seems to be unsolvable because the permanent solutions…
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CharterComm, thy services are no longer required
At my house we have Cable TV and Internet services through Charter Communications. In the last several weeks, Charter changed the behavior of their DNS to return a Charter-branded Yahoo! search page if the domain was invalid. This is bad because; one, it breaks the address bar search; two, I want Google; three, another example…