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Benjamin Otte: If we’d do power management like that…

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It’s sad when all we have to offer to sexually frustrated people is hate and social exclusion. I’ve started to wonder if the bad reputation of Open Source communities is more related to their unsympathetic behavior…

mjg59: Things in your computer that you do not

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Things in your computer that you do not have the source code for:Your BIOSYour video BIOSYour ACPI tablesYour ethernet card (in almost all cases)Your wireless card (in almost all cases, though there are efforts to write…

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How to make effective use of your computing resources overnight

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Turn off your computers when not in useDo not run anything that takes large quantity of the CPU in the backgroundUse the money you save to buy a proper computing cluster

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My trip to Istanbul by Matthew Garrett aged 28 and 4/365ths

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SaturdayArrive at Heathrow. Richard gets to be my special lounge buddy - we later discover Bastien sitting outside looking like a lost puppy. Flight is delayed by a mere hour, so we get to the hotel with little trouble…

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Power management design philosphy

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One of the traditional problems with power management has been balancing power savings against reduced functionality. The two traditional approaches to this have been to have sane defaults or to let the user tweak them,…

Hello people with Sony laptops

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Could you lovely people with Sonys do a quick test for me? Download this file and stick it in /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/ and restart hal. Make sure that you have the sony-laptop module loaded…