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Strangely frozen desktop

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:54:23 -0700 Post Comments

The proprietary Nvidia drivers work well enough.

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followup note on nanosleep()

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:08:57 -0700 Post Comments

If your application really has to have accurate reliable timing then you
will need to write a real time application and install a kernel built with
the PREEMPT_RT  patch  https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
otherwise you will be subject to the type of problem you are
encountering.

Bill

Thinkpad DVD drive failure, maybe

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:26:23 -0700 Post Comments

A 256GB  SSD drive can make an old laptop leap to life. Most slowness in
laptops is not because of a bottleneck for CPU time, but  a bottleneck
accessing the disk.  The SSD will not fix your DVD problem, but it will
make Scribus run faster.

Bill

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