Energy-hogging Linux, what to do?

[Nicholas Bodley]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:28:18 -0400, David Hummel <dhml at comcast.net> wrote:

[laptops]
> Some of the newer models are too hot to handle.

A while back, I was opening up laptops, and was quite surprised to see  
heat pipes in some of the hotter ones. Heat pipes are interesting  
devices...

[HD spindown/spinup]

> The -S flag to hdparm is what you're looking for.

Yummy. Thanks much!

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Nicholas Bodley  /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
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