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Useful scripts for wmii on laptops

March 22nd, 2008

wmii has been the my window manager of choice ever since I first saw it. I recently got a shiny Dell M1330 and as anyone can guess Vista did not live longer than 2 hours on it. I had never used wmii on a laptop before and I saw that the default scripts are were obviously coded with desktop user in mind.

  • There is no battery indicator
  • You can't watch the CPU temperature
  • and you can't set the CPU frequency governor

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Popularity: 22% [?]

Setting up a usb network with GP2X and what you can do with it

May 6th, 2007

GP2x is a wonderful device for its portability, power consumption and price tag.  You can do pretty amazing stuff with an out of the box unit. Here is a slice of that:

  1. Go to settings/system menu on your GP2x
  2. Make sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1
  3. Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web servers (You wont need samba if you are using a real operating system)

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Popularity: 84% [?]

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