It was pretty cold this morning so when I got in the truck I started it up and sat there for a few waiting for the engine to warm up. While I was sitting there I looked at the bottle of water in the cup holder and wondered if it was frozen. I picked up [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Take control of CPU frequency scaling in Ubuntu
Published November 30th, 2007 in Linux and Ubuntu. 6 CommentsIf you have a laptop or a newer desktop running Ubuntu there is a good chance that your computer is scaling the processor speed automatically. In most cases the OnDemand setting it chooses works just fine but it’s nice to have an easy way to manually control the scaling. Here are the two biggest reasons [...]
Wireless on a Compaq 6715b (BCM4312) under Fedora 7 and 8
Published November 13th, 2007 in Hardware and Linux. 4 CommentsAhh nothing like a bcm43xx card to make life interesting. I haven’t had good luck speed or stability wise using fwcutter. I applaud the direction the project is taking but for now I’m sticking with ndiswrapper. Step 1: Install the livna repository wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm (change to 7 to an 8 for FC8) rpm -ivh livna-release-7.rpm [...]
Video on a Compaq 6715b (ATI x1250) under Fedora 7 and 8
Published November 13th, 2007 in Hardware and Linux. 0 CommentsWhen you install Fedora on the Compaq 6715b you’ll be greeted with no X windows thanks to the ATI x1250 graphics card. I looked around for a quick and easy installation procedure and never found one. Hopefully this helps someone. Step 1: Install the livna repository wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm (change to 7 to an 8 for [...]