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.
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 [...]
Well, I just finished my first Oxford tutorial - on Linear Algebra. This being the case, I thought perhaps I would ask myself “What is Linear Algebra?” and then try to explain it a bit, so that someone might be able appreciate what is I’ve been doing with my life for the past two months.
Better [...]
Thermodynamics ended today. I will be home in Massachusetts for five days, and then am coming back to Lehigh to take a class in logic design, and a class on electronic signals. This will last until August 10th.
So, ‘A’ in Thermodynamics. (Autonomous Horn tooting.) I am extremely tired as over the past 90 hours i [...]