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Yeah well I’m sure you’re thinking nVidia just looks good compared to those crappy ATi Linux drivers. After the upgrade to xorg-server 1.9.0-1, the normal nVidia drivers were raping the CPU when rendering text by a bug. In the end an nVidia dev pulled through. If you’re suffering this problem on Arch Linux, install nvidia-beta from the AUR.
nVidia’s on the freakin’ ball!
What the hell? I’ve been using SSH for years and never knew this. Honestly never thought about it hard enough, but it makes sense that it’s always been there and I’ve just kept a blind eye. In case you’re wondering the key is ~.
Found this link today on reddit. It’s a guide to upgrade current ext2 or ext3 partitions to ext4 without having to lose any of your data. Pretty cool for some people out there, but I’m currently running ext4 already.
We all know that since Adobe stopped work on 64bit Linux Flash, times have been tough. This article I stumbled across today has a couple tricks to get some nice performance boosts.
The popular torrent client Deluge is a decent client. Having used uTorrent for most of my life, I liked that it was basically a python copy of uTorrent except it lacks one VERY important thing. If you close the client without pausing all of your torrents, it has to check each one, one at a time the next time you restart. This is a bitch. All torrent clients have to do this but they usually have it built in so that the end user doesn’t have to do it themselves. I have a lot of torrents and it’s impossible to keep track of everything I want to run at the next start up. The best you can do is use the labels add-on and label the torrents you want active at the next time you open Deluge.
This problem is only solved by using the git versions of Deluge, which may or may not be whitelisted on your private trackers.
In other news, uTorrent announced they’re making a port for Linux. Can’t wait to check it out.
Besides the obvious stuff like not loading modules [and other things] you aren’t using, there are actually quite a few things you can do to save power.
http://lesswatts.org is a very useful site that recommends numerous ways to cut back and get some extra minutes on your Linux laptop/netbook.
Recently switching from Awesome WM back to DWM, I missed the ability to press MODKEY+Left arrowkey or MODKEY+Right arrowkey in order to go to the next or previous tag. A little googling and I found the the code to be called cycle.c.
Here’s cycle.c & Here’s an example of part of a valid config.h
Hope that helps!