Tag Archives: laptop

links for 2007-12-14

2007.12.13 – 11:19 pm PST

Documentation
the dell online manual for my dad’s dell inspiron 6000.
(tags: dell inspiron 6000 instructions laptop manual reference toread)

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Terrific Tuesday, take 4 3/4

2007.12.11 – 9:35 pm PST

This is now the 6th time I’ve attempted writing this post over the last 2 hours not including breaks. I was fighting some bad behavior, a funky Wordpress plugin which had become outdated and needed to be updated.
I had the first post-op visit with my surgeon this afternoon. After waiting in the waiting [...]

By px | Posted in WordPress, personal, thoughts | Also tagged , , , , , , , |

a switch to ubuntu.

2007.10.23 – 2:31 pm PDT

A couple days ago I accidentally(and I did the first step of it on accident, truthfully. ) switched the Operating System on my dad’s laptop from Windows XP Home*barf*, to Ubuntu. In that process I later decided to try out the encrypted drive option on the alternative install CD. With little hesitation after I decided [...]

By px | Posted in Gentoo, Ubuntu, hardware | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I’ll be offline for a while.

2007.08.06 – 9:34 pm PDT

Current Mood: SadMy laptop has kicked the bucket. I’m unhappy about this for a couple reasons.
1. I just purchased new stuff for it. a DVD-RW, 1GB of RAM, all in the last month.
2. The new 8800 mAh laptop-battery I purchased not long ago, about a year ago, is now worthless.
3. It [...]

By px | Posted in hardware, personal | Also tagged , , |

laptop battery capacity

2007.05.08 – 5:05 am PDT

Current Mood: SadI lost some capacity on my laptop battery to{day,night} because I accidentally left it on and unplugged when I went out to dinner tonight.

Tue May 8 04:40:45 MST 2007
alarm: unsupported
present: [...]

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laptop battery

2007.03.01 – 6:20 pm PST

I haven’t posted any statistics about my laptop battery in quite some time.
Noticeably I haven’t lost any more capacity since November.

$ battery.sh
Thu Mar 1 18:13:06 MST 2007
alarm: unsupported
present: [...]

By px | Posted in hardware | Also tagged , , , , , |

pci config space bits.

2006.11.26 – 6:26 pm PST

[disclaimer]THE FOLLOWING CAN DAMAGE STUFF[/disclaimer]
My laptop has a SiS5513, well atleast linux thinks it is.  It’s really a SiS962.  I’ve had my laptop for a few years now, and I wish I would have “figured” this out sooner.

/*
* The original SiS5513 comes from a SiS5511/55112/5513 chipset. The original
* SiS5513 was also used in the SiS5596/5513 [...]

By px | Posted in Linux, hardware | Also tagged , , , |

laptop battery weirdness

2006.11.05 – 5:47 pm PST

while updating my system today, I decided to let my laptop use some of the battery because it’s been plugged in all week. now something interesting happened after trying to plug the system back into the wall. the battery says it’s charged.

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software needed for linux laptops

2006.07.12 – 3:51 pm PDT

Auto-shutdown/suspend at given battery percentage.
Audio and or visual notifications of immenent shutdown.

By px | Posted in Linux, thoughts | Also tagged , , , , |

battery update

2006.07.10 – 5:04 pm PDT

Mon Jul 10 17:02:57 MST 2006
alarm: unsupported
present: yes
design capacity: 8800 mWh
last full capacity: [...]

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new battery update

2006.07.08 – 5:10 am PDT

I haven’t really been using the new battery that much, I kept it around a 40% discharge, then I charge it up or let it sit, and use my older battery, and leave it plugged in to the wall. Since doing the initial charge cycles, the battery doesn’t appear to have lost any more [...]

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Bad Behavior has blocked 2061 access attempts in the last 7 days.

>>>>>>> .r246