The curious affair of the missing core: Part 2

Last night was the first time I met with B1ackcr0w in Weston to dicuss the starting of the Weston/Burnham-on-Sea/North Somerset Linux User’s Group. We’ve written a [somewhat brief] action plan to get the LUG going, I really hope it’s a success. Even sitting in a pub with a stranger talking Linux was really fun. [...]

Sleep sleep sleep: part 4 (finale)

I just noticed that I haven’t mentioned that this is not a problem with Archlinux… I don’t know if they’ve just put in a quick work-around to unload the module before sleep/hibernate, or if it’s just that the problem has been solved. Either way: it just works now.

The curious affair of the missing core…

Fairly recently I noticed a change in the information that my computer gives about its cpu, by which I mean that rather than displaying my dual core processor as having two cores it now only appears to detect one. In terms of time scale I really cannot be sure, but I’m pretty convinced that it’s [...]

Sleep sleep sleep: part 3

A quick update… this is also noted as Bug 491235 on Red Hat Bugzilla, which points out that it’s also known as bug 11887 on the Kernel.org
Apparently there is work in process, which is positive

Sleep sleep sleep: part 2

Well as it happens I’ve now discovered exactly what it was that has been causing my suspend problems since I bought my laptop. It was the wireless card. All this time I was thinking that it was a power management problem and that meant my system wouldn’t suspend. Well, since believing that it was having [...]

Sleep sleep sleep…

Last week I updated my laptop to use packages from the Ubuntu 9.04 repositories. Since then my laptop now has the ability to suspend (hibernate isn’t quite there yet, but with some tweaking it’ll come…). This ticks the final box for me and I’ve now got a fully functioning laptop. Woo!!
I’ve also been playing with [...]

Thunderbird tray icon follow-up

Sorted, I found another add-on called moztraybiff. Unfortunately if disables the new mail notification, but should change the icon when I get new mail. Let’s just see eh?

Not available for Linux…

I just had a quick look to find a nicer theme for Thunderbird and maybe an add-on to minimise to tray. I was quite annoyed to find, as I have in the past with certain themes and that, this:

“MinimizeToTray is not available for Linux.”
I’ve seen Firefox/Thunderbird criticised in the past because although it’s an open [...]

3 week project – part 5 – #!CrunchBang

About two days ago I installed CrunchBang Linux and I am pretty much amazed. I haven’t really investigated why yet, but it runs SO fast. By that I mean considerably faster than anything else I’ve tried on this computer.
CrunchBang has conky running by default, which is a nice touch and also means that I can [...]

3 week project – part 4

So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]