February 10, 2008

Got a new machine – CF-R7

Last week I got a new notebook. First I was thinking of getting the Panasonic CF-R6 but later I realized that 2GB of memory can be very fine so I decided to get a new one and so I chose the CF-R7 which comes with 1GB memory a 80GB HDD and a Intel core2duo processor. It came in a very small package.

The first thing I realized is, that they added a small fan on the back. I was not that happy at first, but I realized by the time that it is very silent.
Since I am no Vista user I installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

Everything worked quite out of the box even the sdhc card reader in the front. The only thing which is not working is the feature to change the display brightness with the hotkeys. I tried everything sofar but no luck at all.

After some days of working with it I can say that I am very happy with this machine. Its small, fast, light, not easy to break and runs quite long on the battery.

Cheap MacBook Air alternative

When I was looking around at Joshin for my new notebook I found this Sharp Mebius on the shelf of the second hand notebooks.

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Seems to be a much cheaper alternative (~275euro) to the MacBook Air. I haven’t seen the Air in real yet, but I think the Mebius is as thin as the Air.

January 1, 2008

Network Manager Causing High Load

Sometimes when I wake up my Ubuntu laptop from suspend mode, it is the case that the Network Manager is having 100% load. I can’t connect to any network, so nothing is working. If you restarted your computer at this point and also get in the checking hdd routine, then your are in bad mood, well at least I was.

A solution I am using is, simply kill the process and restart it again. How to do this?
Just run the two following commands.

sudo killall -9 NetworkManager
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager start

After a short time the Network Manager starts searching for the Network connection and you are ready to roll.

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