Just Some Techie Notes!

A great tool from GetDeb.net that allows you to easily configure all hidden features of your Ubuntu OS:
http://getdeb.net/app/Ubuntu+Tweak
It’s a must-try tool! And by the way, this tool allowed me to easily manage my processor frequency in one of my old blog entries, Enjoy!

Applications Loaded:

1. Firefox 3
2. Skype 2
3. Emesene 1
4. GDesklets
5. Gnome Terminal
6. Zekr (Java-based application)

Memory Usage:

1. 415 MB RAM
2. 0 Swap

No Comment!!! I can’t dream of anything better than that!

I discovered the following today while surfing the net and reading multiple articles about Ubuntu:

Ubuntu automatically changes the CPU frequency of the system (on systems supporting this feature only of course such as Pentium M), and it is set to a default value of “ondemand” which means that the CPU frequency is changed dynamically according to the running applications demand. I discovered that this slows the system down much – as well as preserve energy which is important on laptops only – and reduce your satisfaction with the system.

To manually change this setting, you should:

1. Add the “CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor” applet on any of your panels
2. open the terminal and type “sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets” to allow manual configuration of the CPU frequency.
3. Left-click the “CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor” applet and choose the highest frequency (don’t worry :), the displayed frequencies are only those supported by your processor).
4. You can do the same using the “cpufreq-selector” command from the command line.
5. Enjoy the new performance :).

I just have one problem with this; which is that I couldn’t set this option to always on, and I have to change it after every reboot (I don’t have to repeat steps 1 and 2 of course, only step number 3. If you know a solution to this, please let me know, waiting for your comments!

This is a very nice tool that let me at last combine the e-mail client advantages (like Evolution or Thunderbird) with the browser-based e-mail access (such as that of Gmail).

It’s an applet that can be put on any of my panels and is simply configured to check my e-mail every certain period of time and notifies me by a pop-up (that contains brief information about the new e-mail), by text change (counter for example) or by image change whenever a new mail arrives.

Also, gnubiff is VERY customizable, that’s how I configured it for my convenience:

1. When the icon is double left-clicked, it opens Firefox and automatically redirect to my e-mail web address (mail.fcih.net)
2. 
3. See how the text is customizable and the applet is very user friendly:

and as I always say: Enjoy :)!