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"The slowest link in the chain determines the speed of the whole chain."

Yep, the old "rate limiting step" applies to data connections as well as chemical reactions and manufacturing lines. If...

I've been walking around the house seeing how many watts various appliances use when running, and have really realized how much more efficient and versatile my old laptop is than the computer I'm...

Built in CD/DVD drive. This is one of those things which in principle I like to have in a laptop, but in practice once I have installed the OS I rarely use. Once the OS is installed I install...

Another thing to consider buying some old RAM (e.g. ebay), which I fouind made a noticeable improvement in performance, in particular opening programs and when having multiple jobs running. ...

I don't have a USB drive so I can't try this out, however, could you possibly use hdparm to set the standby to "no standby" ? See man hdparm. I think this is of the format: hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda ...

You mentioned you could connect the Dell printer to the router, so I assume it's a network printer. That would be the easiest way to set up that printer, and you wouldn't need to have the dimension...

About six years ago there was a "buzz" about hydrogen fuel cells. Of all the applications mentioned at that time, the one I thought most likely to succeed was to replace batteries in laptops. I...

That would be a 33% efficiency whereas you were quoted 65%. Are the units the same for the input and output ?

Is 960W perhaps the maximum (peak) draw and 300W more like the maximum sustained...

The last time I looked at cases, my short list included Antec P150 and Antec Sonata II

Things I've considered in a case: are good ventilation (less heat, means you have more flexibility on using...

As a reference point, the PC I use at home is a P-III 550MHz, with 512MB RAM and a HD running at 5400rpm, 12msec seek time, 16MB cache. Video is an ATI Mobility M3 AGP (2x), Dell Latitude C600...

I'm not in the market for CPUs right now, so I wont comment on these particular processors.

One thing I've usually keep in mind is how many MIPS (or whatever unit) I'm getting per W, and what the...

I don't know if "linux support" really applies to monitors themselves, but rather the graphics chipset. Basically, if the graphics chip is set to a certain resolution and refresh the monitor will...

I did this a few years ago, although from vinyl to wav.

(1) installed Audacity package
- go to sourceforge.net for the link to the Audacity page
(2) connected turntable to audio in jack on...

I agree, you can install any distro you like on that hardware. Increasing RAM to 512MB would speed thjngs up a fair bit, but wouldn't be absolutely necessary. I've bought RAM for old laptops off...

I don't know if this drive supports it or not, but you can try running (from systemrescuecd.org's utility CD (it's a live CD) the SMART extended self-test. Note that many other utility disks have...

Something to keep in mind jf you do see a Linux KDE or Gnome utility that you like, is that many of them are really just guis for a command line program. e.g. Imagemagick is the frontend for display...

For those of you who have been occasionally watching the progress of "One Laptop Per Child" project, here's a link to a rather good radio program on it. More than just about open-source, it's about...

Here are the applications I use. Most of these are apps that come with Suse distro. Some, with the required dependencies, can be downloaded from
http://packman.links2linux.org/

(1) office...

Just as an FYI that will hopefully help others.

In the last week or so I successfully installed Suse 10.1 (purchased, boxed set) on the following. This is definitely older technology but that's...

Really liked your solution to that. I'd forgotten about the fifth and sixth fields in fstab.

But the suggestion to look at tune2fs is still a very good one. tune2fs, top, du --max-depth -h and...

Another option is doc2html

use locate doc2html to see if you have it already installed, and (if so) read it's README file
- may have to save in an older Word format, I'm not sure what you're...

whereis commandname

This will show, in order, the path to the binary (i.e. executable), source and man page

If you have installed the findutils package, and run updatedb as root after the...

One thing worth trying, first off, is to have your home router assign your laptop's network adapter a static IP address based on its MAC address.

- some useful commands when I'm working on...

After you're done backing up, run smartmontools (see man smartctl) long test and print out its output. Good ammo if they try to dispute your warranty claim.

To address one of your specific examples, here's the 'resume' entry from my menu.lst file:

resume=/dev/hda2

So when I use kpowersave on my laptop to suspend the system to disk, upon restarting...