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Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

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Matthew Garrett talks about power saving strategy in his unique manner. “Some people write software that lets you choose different power profiles depending on whether you’re on AC or battery. Typically, one of the…

mjg59: Ext JS is some sort of Javascript framew

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Ext JS is some sort of Javascript framework stuff. I know nothing whatsoever about Javascript, but what interested me was the slightly odd license. If you’re a non-profit you can have it under the LGPL 3.0, but if you…

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Because you all love me and deeply want to know what on Earth

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Because you all love me and deeply want to know what on Earth I’m doing with my life/want to hire me, I’ll put you out of your misery and let you know that I’ve just accepted an offer from Red Hat to save the universe…

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Leaving aside the obvious failure (asking women to

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.Leaving aside the obvious failure (asking women to classify themselves into those who are happy to have their breasts groped and those who aren’t - and yes, that is the effective choice, since refusing to participate w…

Matthew Garrett

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Note that by “Enable Touchpad” it also means “Make my touchpad mouse buttons work”. For machines that are only equipped with a touchpad (and, indeed, some that are equipped with a trackpoint as well - it depends on how…

Modern CPUs are great. They have all sorts of advanced power

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Modern CPUs are great. They have all sorts of advanced power saving features, which is one of those nice cases where everyone can save money, gain performance and claim environmental credentials at the same time.…

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