Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Momentus XT & Linux – No more stuttering!
A while back I got a new HD for my laptop – a Momentus XT. While I haven’t been entirely happy with it – overall it was much improved on the standard laptop hd I had. Load times where quick and a restart no longer meant making a cup of tea. Recently I’ve been doing [...]
November 6, 2011
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Tags: Linux, Momentus XT, noop, Stuttering, Video Playback · Posted in: Hardware, Linux
HOWTO: NUT & CPU Throttling/Frequency Scaling
After a couple of power cuts lasting long enough for my UPS to shutdown my PC, I’ve been meaning to get NUTs to set my CPU to lowest speed possible when running on battery power, this week I finally got round to it. Please note these instructions are based on Debian 4.0 (Etch) and may [...]
May 21, 2007
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Posted in: Debian, Hardware, Howtos, Linux
Rockbox Update
The problems I have been having seem to be due to playlist corruption and nothing else. I may try another upgrade and see if this is fixed. As I am currently using small playlists this hasn’t been a real problem for the past few weeks. Another plus point I have discovered is it plays mp2 [...]
May 1, 2006
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Posted in: Hardware, Software
Rockbox
I’ve decided to give Rockbox a test on my iRiver H300. Initial impressions are good – the GUI is more responsive and playback is good. I like the replay gain feature and the crossfade looks promising (it sometimes produces some pops/click when switching between songs of different codecs at the moment). The upgrade was easy [...]
April 15, 2006
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Posted in: Hardware, Software, Thumbs Up
UPS
Just got myself an MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100 UPS. Well not all features appear to be supported in Linux (although as yet I don’t have a use for them even if they did work), things are looking promising with them relasing a bunch of linux stuff (inlcuding a pakage repositry for both debian and Ubuntu, [...]
November 27, 2005
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Posted in: Hardware, Software
