Author Archives: Anthony

Italy Now

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Anthony

If you were to listen to the Italian news these days you’d be forgiven for thinking the Italians are all a bunch of crooks. Principle party members helping themselves to money that doesn’t belong to them. People claiming supplementary benefits … Continue reading →

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Reducing Power consumption Ubuntu 11.10 On Aspire S3

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Anthony

vi /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” To GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash pcie_aspm=force pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1″ update-grub Saves about 10 Watts you battery now should last about 3 to 3.5 hours depending on what you do of course

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How to move your Linux EBS backed EC2 AMI to a new region

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Anthony

Lots of ways to do this out there and hell if any of them work properly. This is really for myself as a reminder of how to do things but hey lets share LOL Keep in mind that things at … Continue reading →

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Paul Tustain’ message to investors – a bit gloomy :D

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Anthony

Dear BullionVault user, The end of 2011 feels unusually dark. Things are getting worse. There is now maybe a 30 percent chance of a steep financial and commercial decline on a par with the Great Depression. Our governments are very … Continue reading →

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Hail Google but what have you given us?

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Anthony

So here it is the Nexus! Conceptually a brilliant phone Continue reading →

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