In 2008, this website was visited 44,000 times by over 18,000
unique visitors. These figures do not take into account my visits
(about 12,000, hoho) nor those of indexing robots (like Google,
Yahoo, BeeMP3.)
What Are People Looking At?
More than half of the visits were to my post about using the Realtek
r8168 ethernet card in [...]
Al utilizar Hardy original, algunas tarjetas de red como la Realtek r8168 no funcionan. Recomiendo esta solución: En lugar del utilizar el driver r8169 que se distribuye con Ubuntu (que está roto), es mas conveniente utilizar el driver r8168 que distribuye Realtek.
I describe my preliminary activities setting up and using the Linux Processor Hardware Control patch to the ACPI CPU Frequency module. I briefly discuss compilation of the module for x86_64, and talk about its use. I mention the MSR Info utility which you can compile and use to monitor the effectiveness of the HPC module. For those who don’t like to compile, I offer an x86_64 ubuntu package by which you can install the utility.
The Realtek r8168 network card does not work out of the box in Hardy. modprobe loads the r8169 module. A solution is to use a patched version of the r8168 driver provided by Realtek.
Wulp, my new laptop is here and it is quite a sweet piece of equipment. Her name is salmon.jamesonwilliams.com (the color, not the fish.) It shipped with Vista, which I played around with for a few days - and I have to say, it is a fairly nice looking piece of software. But my fun [...]
My old laptop, a Compaq nx 9010, was old and weak, but then it also became stolen, too. So, I’ve put in an order for a Dell Vostro 1310.
(Photo taken from PC Magazine.)
Why This?
Most laptops are ugly. To get something café-worthy, my options
appeared either to be the MacBook, a Vostro, or a Thinkpad. Thinkpads
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