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Nokia, Microsoft and Windows Phone
Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, has now famously been quoted for his “burning platform” memo, but with today’s announcement that Nokia will be taking up Windows Phone 7 as its leading smartphone operating system, what we are seeing is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, ballmer, capital, day, developers, elop, foundation, Google, Intel, Linux, markets, meego, microsoft, microsoft windows phone 7, N8, N9, Nokia, ovi, stephen elop, steve ballmer, Symbian, windows phone, windows phone 7, wp, wp7, wp8
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How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14
In this article I will explain what battery charging thresholds are, and if you’re using a Thinkpad, how to install the tp_smapi kernel module (kmod), have it run at boot time, and automatically rebuild itself when you update kernel versions. … Continue reading
Posted in Free and Open Source, Guide, Technology
Tagged akmod, automatic kernel module, battery, charging, Fedora, fedora 14, IBM, kernel, kernel module, kmod, laptop, Lenovo, Linux, module, smapi, Thinkpad, thinkwiki, thresholds, tp, tpsmapi, tp_smapi
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Missing or Corrupted Textures on Linux, with Intel Integrated Graphics
If you run Linux and are using the open source Intel graphics drivers, for their integrated graphics processors, have you noticed garbled / missing or white / corrupt textures? Do things just not look right, with the textures? This issue … Continue reading
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Tagged ATI, broken, cannot, cannot see, compression, corrupt, display, driconf, driver, Fedora, games, GM45, graphics, graphics driver, integrated, Intel, Intel graphics, Intel integrated graphics, Linux, mesa-libGL-devel, missing, no, problem, see, Spring RTS, texture, textures, white, xorg-x11-drv-intel
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review
I have just updated to the recently released version of Firefox, Firefox 3.6, I’m still running Fedora 12 and at present it is not available in the official Fedora 12 repositories. If you want to try it out you need … Continue reading
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Tagged 3.6, add on, addons, compatibility, extension, Fedora, Fedora 11, Fedora 12, firefox, Firefox 3.6, Linux, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Red Hat, Review
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Lenovo Thinkpad T400 14” Review
I have owned my Thinkpad T400 for a sufficiently long period of time to be able to give my overall view of the machine now. I have had a couple of Thinkpads in the past a T41p and a T61, … Continue reading
Missing GRUB Splashscreen On Fedora Linux
I recently upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 and still encountered this issue which is detailed in this bug report. Basically, when booting up the GRUB splashscreen that asks whether you want to boot the default entry or select … Continue reading
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Tagged 11, 12, back, background, boot, boot-loader, bootloader, corrupted, Fedora, Fedora 11, Fedora 12, ground, GRUB, Linux, loader, missing, screen, shortened, splash, splashscreen, verbose
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Thoughts on the Nokia N900
Looking ahead to the UK launch of the N900 in late October, I wanted to collect my thoughts on the N900 whilst taking into account my previous ruminations on the N810 release, and making comparisons where appropriate (although unfortunately this … Continue reading
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Tagged 770, handset, Internet, Internet Tablet, Linux, Maemo, Maemo 5, mobile, n, n series, N800, N810, N900, N97, Nokia, Nokia N800, Nokia N810, Nokia N900, Nokia N97, phone, series, Tablet
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