<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">azmodi , thanks for the tips, I'll try it out!!<br><br>openbox huh, can i get that on ubuntu , or is a compile from source job?<br><br>so, be interested to put windows and linux head to head on power management...<br><br>perhaps there's another distro i can use which is gear for low power consumption?<br><br>firefox zapps cpu even when not in the foreground.... maybe firefox mobile would be<br>and idea.<br><br>looks like i'll have to go back to using lynx at the cmd line...<br><br>hehehhehh<br><br>it's so 1970's..<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 20/10/09, azmodie <i><azmodie@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: azmodie <azmodie@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] laptop mode power saving<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group"
<dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009, 3:40 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1690153424">a throw away comment embedded in some forum suggests <div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">switching off Firefox's phishing verification (which runs fsync) has made a noticeable difference in performance."</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">maybe futher looking into what apops use fsync and where.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">as for the desktop. is it worth maybe looking at something like openbox based on a minimal instal eg something like chrunchbang linux</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">azmodie</span></div>
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