sicherheitsschwankung.de - some things I do for free

After having read about the board a bit and getting courious, at LinuxTag 2008 i could try the real hardware for the first time. They had a demo running which showed a full Enlightenment desktop and everything seemed quite fast. I would guess the performance is similar to a P3 1GHz. The demo was based on OpenEmbedded, but with a system that is as fast as a few year old desktop system, i would of course prefer to run Debian.

Intel has just released a new utility called PowerTOP. It uses the new statistics made available by the 2.6.21 kernel and shows which processes (or devices) cause the processor to wake up.

Keith Packard said that he managed to increase the battery life of his Panasonic R4 laptop from 4 to almost 7 hours.

I'll try to reproduce his success with my X60s. If you want to do the same and use debian, it is already packaged uploaded.

Just some nice things from the Desktop side:

Leaftag: Tag files on your system (Homepage, Video)

XOrg Bling: Using OpenGL to make nice effects

• by Novell/SuSE:Compiz
• by RedHat: aiglx (Videos: 1 2 3)

If you're running Debian unstable and have updated recently, your eth interfaces may be numbered differently now. This is because udev is now started earlier (at 05) than module-init-tools (at 20). If the order in /etc/modules is different from what udev detects, you get changed interface numbers.

So what can we do to prevent this from happening again?

We've just connected the new disk to our mirror, but they are not yet usable. At first we had a defective sata cable and after fixing that, it seems that the PCI ID of the SATA controller is not yet in the 2.6.13.4 sata_promise driver. I think i read somewhere that there is a patch in 2.6.14 :) Perhaps i'll figure it out tomorrow.

Update:

The controller works flawlessly after adding the PCI ID to sata_promise.c.