Written by Actually a workaround… Asus P5LD2 fan speed control using ‘fancontrol’ not workinng since pwmconfig says “There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed” Kernel 2.6.38-8-generic (actually 2.6.31 and up) Workaround: Edit boot/grub/grub.cfg Find first ‘menuentry’ line and add “acpi_enforce_resources=lax” option right after “splash quiet etc”. Reboot, and pwmconfig will detect everything correctly.
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Battlestar Galactica Online
The saga of the Battlestar Galactica and its rag-tag crew of human survivors continues in this epic, 3D game, based on the international hit television series, Battlestar Galactica. Play Battlestar Galactica online as either the humans or Cylons as you battle for galactic supremacy, sector by sector, in this blockbuster adventure sci-fi game. Battlestar Galactica [...]
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I find a little confusing how to use a custom MP3 as a ringtone on HTC android devices. So here’s how to do it: 1. Transfer the mp3 file to your phone ( duh ) , using a usb cable or bluetooth, download it, or just copy it to the sdcard, the method doesn’t matter [...]
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The solution below was tested on Linux Mint 11 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a Thinkpad T410. After installation for the most part, everything worked right away and on an SSD drive, it felt blazingly fast. However, the screen brightness controls did not work. Some online research suggested adding acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel boot parameters and [...]
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Microsoft announced that it would purchase Skype for $8.5 billion back in May 2010, and a few days ago the US Federal Trade Commission just approved the deal. While the deal is still pending antitrust approvals from other jurisdictions, Skype still continues to develop and release their latest version of their communication client. On June [...]
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Google has activated it voice search feature on its Chrome browser. The feature, already available on Android phones, can also be now used on personal computers. The new feature was announced by Google last week at its search event in San Francisco. The voice search option allows users to to speak their search requests in [...]
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In the recent past, each new Mozilla Firefox revision has been meant with some degree of angst by users, who have worried that they would have to wait for their add-on extensions to catch up. So far, so good. The “rapid release” schedule of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, available for download today, doesn’t seem to have [...]
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Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 5 for the desktop and Android devices. That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle. This cycle, which is more [...]
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The change in theme handling under Windows 7 has made it a lot easier to install themes for the operating system. All that is needed now is to double-click on a themes file to install and activate it. While that’s only changing the basic color scheme, backgrounds and sounds, it is easier and faster than [...]
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It can seem to us that the internet is a limitless place, and in many ways it is. Organizations can always expand their servers to accommodate more traffic, or more content, of whatever it is that they feel they need more of. With space on Facebook, huge swaths of free room in email accounts and [...]
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