Slacy’s Blog

Just because they haven’t been appearing on the website, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been taking them.

What it does mean is that I had accumulated about 2,700 photos that I needed to sort through, and I just wasn’t able to find the time to do it.  So, I’ve decided to take on a new approach, and upload them as “one folder per day and one folder per month”.  That way, the pictures will go live, and everyone will be happy!  Please click through to our gallery for more…

I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Lenovo S10 (Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6GHz) netbook, and have had some serious performance issues after installing.  Others have noticed similar issues.

In short, the machine never goes any faster than 800MHz, no matter what I’m doing.  What’s supposed to be happening is that the cpufreq module (now compiled into the kernel instead of a loadable module) should be increasing the processor speed when it detects high CPU usage.  For all intents and purposes, this feature is 100% broken on my machine.   I can manually override the cpufreq governor to set it to “performance” and the machine becomes a fair bit more responsive, but uses a lot more power.

It does look like there are several ways to make the default policy “performance” and for the short term, I’m going to be doing this so that my machine works at a reasonable pace.

I’ve also filed a bug with launchpad.net and we’ll see if that gets any traction.  There does seem to be a large number of “cpufreq stuck” types of bugs in launchpad, which is very discouraging. Even worse, /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq seems to not have been updated to reflect that acpi_cpufreq is now compiled into the kernel.  This is just sloppy.

I also suspect that this “hidden bug” is effecting a *lot* more 9.04 users than people think.  In general, when a fast 3GHz machine “only” runs at 1.5GHz, it’s a perfectly fine situation and most users won’t notice it.   But, when a 1.6GHz machine is stuck at 800Mhz, it’s a pretty big deal.

I’m the only search result for “has many new features such as labels”

So, the funny thing is that I didn’t think that phrase was very unique, and yet, WordPerfect 5.1 is the only thing that has many new features such as labels!  (And well, now this blog post does, so click while you can, and don’t forget to view the HTML version of the PDF file!)

I resurrected WordPerfect 5.1 from 720kB floppies today.  Here’s the default “printer test page” printout (converted to a PDF from PostScript) as proof.

I’m linking to this here, because I googled around, and couldn’t find any other instances of the WordPerfect 5.1 Printer Test Page anywhere.

Inspired by bebo.com, vevo.com, hulu.com, etc. I present you the Video Website Name Generator.