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Advanced power management tools for Santa Rosa notebooks

Santa Rosa laptops have advanced power consumption limiting features, like trottling and power state transitions. The software that is supplied with your laptop, like that of my Dell is actually pretty good, but gives only limited insight in what your computer is actually doing.
To adjust the power consumption of my laptop according to the usage, [...]

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Upgrading Wordpress to 2.5

I have just upgraded Wordpress to the current version 2.5 and everything seems to work out of the box! The two step upgrade was truly a matter of five minutes. Delete two directories, upload new files, login to the admin panel which starts the DB upgrade and you’re done. I didn’t bother backing up the DB which I don’t regret.
I think the new interface looks very clear, uncluttered and fresh.
The only negative point is that the ”Visit Site” button is above the ”write” tab in Opera.
But who uses Opera anyway?
The new [...]

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Power saving tips for your notebook

When you spend a lot of time on the road with your notebook, you wish for longer battery times of your notebook now and then. Here are several tips for lowering the power consumption of your notebook. My Dell XPS M1330 with a standard battery has a battery lifetime of 3 hours, but this [...]

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Dell M1330 clicking sound

I have my Dell M1330 notebook for about two months now and I really love it. It is light, compact, feature rich, fast and it started to tick like a clock. Quite irritating to be honest, especially in quite surroundings.
It appeard that the reason of this clicking was the harddisk accoustic management (sick). [...]

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