Archive for June, 2007

Problems (freezes) with libata

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I wrote about having switched to libata - but now I’m back to the old IDE driver. You can read about the reason in this mail I sent to the linux-ide-mailinglist.
Update (2007-07-17): Had two freezes again, _without_ libata. So I sent this mail to the linux-ide-mailinglist. I guess I’ll run a memtest session tonight…

Got my chinese driving license

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

or: part two of How to apply for a driving license in Shanghai (for foreigners with a foreign driving license)
I went in there with my pamphlet containing the 100 questions, of which 90 must be answered correctly to get the license. Being 20 minutes early, I had to take a seat in the waiting hall [...]

Intel’s “powertop” gives hints on how to save power

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I discovered this small ncurses based tool just yesterday… Just start it as root and it will spit out info on how often the CPU must return from C3 sleep mode to a more power consuming mode, and what the reasons are. It will also show various hints on how to reduce power consumption on [...]