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How to turn off the ondemand CPU governor on an Ubuntu Linux machine.

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The default CPU governor on an Ubuntu machine sets it to use an ondemand CPU setting that will use the lowest CPU speed and then set it higher when it is needed, but it does not always work very well. But it can be fixed. Dsiable the ondemand CPU governor. ┌─[jason@darkstar]─[~] └──╼ $echo ‘GOVERNOR="performance"’ | … Read more

How to get a nice speed boost for Ubuntu, this really does work well.

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There is a nice way to get a good speed boost for your Ubuntu system, this disables a few security settings for your Intel CPU, this can reduce the security of your Linux system, but can speed up your CPU a small amount. These settings from https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ are very useful to provide this speed boost. … Read more

Very useful Firefox tips for speeding up the browser and improving your experience.

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Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tipsSpeed up the Firefox browserDisable Firefox telemetry Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tips Speed up the Firefox browser I had problems with Firefox being slow on Facebook, but this tip has helped. Go to about:config and search for this value. dom.storage.enableddom.storage.enabled Change this to false and … Read more

Malcom Turnbull and his failure on the NBN.

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Hack Tuesday April 9 2013: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_tue_2013_4_9.mp3. Listen to this recording of the ABC TripleJ radio show Hack and hear what Malcom Turnbull is planning if the Liberals get into power in 2013. A broadband network using copper wires instead of the Labour proposed fibre to the node that would use a network capable of 100 … Read more

SSD Solid State Disks taking over from the traditional hard disk with moving parts that can wear out.

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The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD is available in a 128 … Read more

How to speed up the KDE 4.8.0 desktop.

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I have installed the KDE 4.8.0 desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 and this KDE release is the fastest yet, everything works very well, adding new themes, splash screens and window decorations works perfectly. Many people hate what Canonical are doing with the Unity desktop and the KDE desktop is a nice alternative to the increasingly strange … Read more

Linux is getting bloated.

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Is there a real reason the Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint & Fedora have to be so bloated? The Debian distribution is very fast and usable compared to the Ubuntu distribution that has moved from the Gnome 2.32.1 desktop environment to the Unity desktop that has created some controversy of late. The Ubuntu 11.10 … Read more