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Linux power regression + overheating problem on ThinkPad [fixed?]

November 10, 2011 – 11:28 pm by AbsintheSyringe

This post is also available on/was written for OMG! Ubuntu This blog post isn't only directed to ThinkPad owners as most notebook Linux users with Intel Core Duo 1/2 and i3/i5/i7 processors have been affected by this bug if not all. And yes, this problem is present on latest Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 11.10. Prelude I'm owner of Thinkpad X300, great machine except the fact that just recently I replaced its 3rd cooling fan!  Yea, I do a lot of compiling and it's on all the time, but still this kind of things shouldn't happen. I first linked this problem to the fact that Thinkpad fan on Linux (as of 2.6.22) always works at what's its basically maximum RPM, thus the reason there are numerous fan control scripts. My favorite one is Thinkfan, but controlling fan doesn't really help if you have a overheating problem. For matter of a fact it working on its maximum ...

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My DebConf11 summary and its after effects

October 22, 2011 – 3:59 pm by AbsintheSyringe

Even though some three months have passed since DebConf11 has successfully ended, I still wanted to give you just a glimpse on how some parts were played through the eyes of a lunatic (read: organizer). Of course, blog post can't come close near of explaining anything but at least it should give some insight and hopefully some pointers to the future DebConf organizers. If you don't feel like reading this much text you can listen to last episode of "This Week In Debian" podcast and after it just head to "Beginning of the end" part. DebConf11 First of all I'd like to apologize if I offended or hurt anyone in this whole process as it wasn't my intention and during DebConf organization this is nothing irregular, for you to get hurt or you hurting somebody else. One thing that got stuck with me this whole time is when Martín Ferrari approached me after I did bid proposal of Bosnia/Herzegovina ...

Posted in Debian, Linux, Opinion, Project, Thoughts | 4 Comments »

DebConf11 – Sponsored registration date has been extended

May 7, 2011 – 4:18 pm by AbsintheSyringe

Date for end of sponsored registrations for this years DebConf11 in Banja Luka was set for May 8th, today that date has officially been extended to May 19th. Now to answer your question on "why are you extending sponsored registrations 12 hours before it ends"  here's the answer. Registrations are going fine, we have more then 300 attendees who registered so far, it is due to change in our monetary resources as sponsorship level has changed from one to another, and we've be granted to welcome more people. But it is also to give some possible attendees more time and information, as I've got a feeling a lot of people from this region and elsewhere have been lacking some even general information, and thus I'd like to bring everything closer to everybody. Before anything, heading to our website might be a good start as we have immense amount of information up there. Since government of Republika Srpska ...

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Price of bleeding edge? (update)

April 24, 2011 – 6:07 pm by AbsintheSyringe

Since Debian is in GNOME3 transition period, after last dist-upgrade I lived on bare minimum of GNOME DE and its apps. basically all I had working right was Chromium and Terminal, instead of Rhythmbox I used mpg321, instead of Gedit it was Vim and so on, which is all fine except the fact it had me living in 2000 again. It was all due to python-gtk2 version that was missing in Sid repositories. Furthermore, as I was unable to restart X and had my notebook on suspend after every login I had to retype my wifi passphrase due to a bug in gnome-keyring. I believe I did my part, reported the bugs and waited maintainers responsible for those packages to do something. But this "situation" went on for 8 days. I remember the times when you couldn't fire up X for weeks, but after those days Unstable has gained reputation that it's not like that anymore, ...

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Debian CUT, a new rolling release?

March 18, 2011 – 3:11 pm by AbsintheSyringe

This post is also available on/was written for OMG! Ubuntu It looks like 2011 started well for Debian. The project won awards in two out of seven categories at the Linux New Media Awards 2011 (“Best Open Source Server Distribution” and “Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software”). Just recently Internet.com declared Debian the most influential distribution ever, stating that “~63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian.” However, my intention for this article is not solely to praise Debian for its recent awards, but rather to focus on a new project, Debian CUT. Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard about CUT; it seems most Debian community hasn’t either. Then again, maybe it’s because it is only labelled as unofficial/development so far. A bit of history One of the greatest criticisms of Debian is that its release cycles are too long. Debian stable release is seen as often as Ubuntu’s LTS release. ...

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