Stop your laptop from succumbing to thermal death

Posted on June 6th, 2009 in Computers by ZoltarStark

I’m running Fedora 9 on my laptop. Everything works great but the default installation doesn’t deal properly with thermal management. The OS doesn’t lower the CPU clock when the processor is heating up too much. Normally it doesn’t matter much unless you run some software which will fully utilize the CPU for an extended period. For example when you compile a big software project. Because the OS doesn’t activate the… Stop your laptop from succumbing to thermal death

Native resolution with Fujitsu Siemens Scaleoview L22W-7SD

Posted on June 5th, 2009 in Computers by ZoltarStark

Sometimes I connect an external LCD monitor to my laptop but by default Fedora 9 doesn’t use the native resolution and selects 1280×1024. This results in suboptimal image quality and loss of valuable screen estate (after all I’m connecting an external screen because the built-in LCD in the laptop is too small!). Which is weird considering that the OS detected the monitor configuration using DDC

Native resolution with Fujitsu Siemens Scaleoview L22W-7SD

What files did I change?

Posted on February 15th, 2009 in Computers by ZoltarStark

Sometimes I need to check what files have been modified on my Linux computers. Recently I discovered a new way to do that. What files did I change?

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