Comments for Designer Distractions http://www.matthewchappell.com Graphical Geekyness 24/7 Sat, 22 May 2010 07:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on How To Increase Laptop Battery Life by chappell101 http://www.matthewchappell.com/product-review/software/freeware/how-to-increase-laptop-battery-uptime/comment-page-1/#comment-468 chappell101 Sat, 22 May 2010 07:42:28 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?p=214#comment-468 Hi thanks for taking the time to read that old article, It's just the inspiration I need to try getting back to writing this summer! Anyway to your question, There is a big difference between Performance and Power Management. Ubuntu performance wise has reduced its boot time and improved its RAM efficiency especially in the recent 10.04 release and the best way to accompany this core performance increase now is to use Lubuntu 10.04 which uses the lighter LXDE enviroment over GNOME. Unfortunately Power Management is something that I have only seen considered heavily in WattOS which is considerably better than the most power efficient of the top distributions OpenSuse. Power management is not directly about making the computer faster like Performance but about using less CPU cycles, HDD writes/ IO requests and Watts of power to preserve battery life and keep you working on the go longer. Ubuntu as of yet hasn't set Power management ever as a key release feature or even enabled the full arsenal of optimizations available on Linux to effectively use a battery. http://live.gnome.org/BatteryStatus is a current attempt to provide easy CPU scaling to GNOME users so they can tell Ubuntu to prioritize uptime longevity over performance on battery but this is only a start. Ubuntu needs to do its part too, takeing the time to make its system write less to the HDD (better for SDD's too) and optimizing its application compiles to certain specific system configurations to shorten CPU cycles until then everyone's best bet is WattOSPM and learning how laptop-tools works or dare I say it Windows 7. Hi thanks for taking the time to read that old article, It’s just the inspiration I need to try getting back to writing this summer!

Anyway to your question, There is a big difference between Performance and Power Management. Ubuntu performance wise has reduced its boot time and improved its RAM efficiency especially in the recent 10.04 release and the best way to accompany this core performance increase now is to use Lubuntu 10.04 which uses the lighter LXDE enviroment over GNOME.

Unfortunately Power Management is something that I have only seen considered heavily in WattOS which is considerably better than the most power efficient of the top distributions OpenSuse. Power management is not directly about making the computer faster like Performance but about using less CPU cycles, HDD writes/ IO requests and Watts of power to preserve battery life and keep you working on the go longer. Ubuntu as of yet hasn’t set Power management ever as a key release feature or even enabled the full arsenal of optimizations available on Linux to effectively use a battery. http://live.gnome.org/BatteryStatus is a current attempt to provide easy CPU scaling to GNOME users so they can tell Ubuntu to prioritize uptime longevity over performance on battery but this is only a start. Ubuntu needs to do its part too, takeing the time to make its system write less to the HDD (better for SDD’s too) and optimizing its application compiles to certain specific system configurations to shorten CPU cycles until then everyone’s best bet is WattOSPM and learning how laptop-tools works or dare I say it Windows 7.

]]> Comment on How To Increase Laptop Battery Life by Jannik Lindquist http://www.matthewchappell.com/product-review/software/freeware/how-to-increase-laptop-battery-uptime/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Jannik Lindquist Fri, 21 May 2010 22:02:41 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?p=214#comment-466 Very interesting article. However, it is a bit confusing that you first write "The Linux giant Ubuntu has however made drastic improvements in performance" but then, further down, goes on to write: "Shockingly Ubuntu hasn’t really done much to improve power management on its OS". Could you explain this in further depth? Very interesting article. However, it is a bit confusing that you first write “The Linux giant Ubuntu has however made drastic improvements in performance” but then, further down, goes on to write: “Shockingly Ubuntu hasn’t really done much to improve power management on its OS”. Could you explain this in further depth?

]]> Comment on Top Software by The DuDe aGaiN! http://www.matthewchappell.com/the-hot-lists/the-top-list/comment-page-1/#comment-17 The DuDe aGaiN! Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:46 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?page_id=15#comment-17 Hey man its the DuDe here again... If you want some help with this just give me a shout out...Im willing to give you a hand with this one. I have been in IT for years now and dont mind at all sharing some information to you and your url. If you can provide some good links it will attract peole to you and give you some more traffic...anyway just a thought hit me back here if you would like to collaborate. Maybe trim down a little too, up to you Chaps. Th3 DuDe Hey man its the DuDe here again…

If you want some help with this just give me a shout out…Im willing
to give you a hand with this one. I have been in IT for years now and dont mind at all sharing some information to you and your url.

If you can provide some good links it will attract peole to you and give you some more traffic…anyway just a thought hit me back here if you would like to collaborate. Maybe trim down a little too, up to you Chaps.

Th3 DuDe

]]> Comment on Top Software by chappell101 http://www.matthewchappell.com/the-hot-lists/the-top-list/comment-page-1/#comment-16 chappell101 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:37:45 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?page_id=15#comment-16 @ The DuDe It is being worked on but since starting a full time job and doing a part time one in the evenings your right this is more than a challenge, but I'm slowly making my way through linking and doing all the mini reviews (aka pointing out tips/bugs) as I go but by the time I finish no doubt a better and faster software solution for each will have bypassed my current suggestions! I will take the advise on board and maybe I'll purposefully do what I did with the iPhone Apps list accidentally and half post as people can still learn from what's there until its finished anyway! I was just hoping to make a one stop solution for people to check as I love sites like Toms Hardware that provide good comparative reviews that you can overview in one page! Anyway thanks for dropping by to my very much still work in progress site! Chappell101 @ The DuDe
It is being worked on but since starting a full time job and doing a part time one in the evenings your right this is more than a challenge, but I’m slowly making my way through linking and doing all the mini reviews (aka pointing out tips/bugs) as I go but by the time I finish no doubt a better and faster software solution for each will have bypassed my current suggestions! I will take the advise on board and maybe I’ll purposefully do what I did with the iPhone Apps list accidentally and half post as people can still learn from what’s there until its finished anyway!

I was just hoping to make a one stop solution for people to check as I love sites like Toms Hardware that provide good comparative reviews that you can overview in one page! Anyway thanks for dropping by to my very much still work in progress site!

Chappell101

]]> Comment on Top Software by The DuDe http://www.matthewchappell.com/the-hot-lists/the-top-list/comment-page-1/#comment-15 The DuDe Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:17:46 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?page_id=15#comment-15 I will suggest to you Matthew that finding the best of even half of these apps will be a task unto itself. Could I suggest more prudent informational link to a url stating ; *Good* Or maybe I am underestimating your prowess in cyberspace. The DuDe I will suggest to you Matthew that finding the best of even half of these apps will be a task unto itself.
Could I suggest more prudent informational link to a url stating ; *Good*
Or maybe I am underestimating your prowess in cyberspace.

The DuDe

]]> Comment on Deadline by ricardo http://www.matthewchappell.com/entertainment/deadline/comment-page-1/#comment-6 ricardo Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:49:38 +0000 http://www.matthewchappell.com/?p=82#comment-6 that is freakin' SWEET! that is freakin’ SWEET!

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