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Howzzat?

How did I Appear Offline in Gmail

A few minutes ago one of my friends told me I was appearing offline in gmail !!!
Here is a screenshot of this




How did it happen ?

Someone please explain ........

Why Laptop Performance lower on batteries

Why is my game running slower than expected when on batteries ?

The answer is, when your laptop is running on batteries, it tries to save power by reducing the clock speed. Thus the full speed of the CPU is not used and a lower clock speed is set. This is what that causes the game's poor performance.

How can i get the maxinmum performance on batteries ?

Performance can be gained by sacrificing power. So all you have to do is goto the
Control Panel » Power Options » Change the Power Scheme from Portable/Laptop to Home/Desktop. (Windows)

By doing this the laptop does not uses power saving schemes and your game will run at a better performance.

Got a Better answer?
Lemme know ...

Windows Drivers for Compaq Presario V3000

Compaq Presario V3155AU came with no driver CD ! So here is the link to download all the drivers for the V3155.

Software & Driver downloads Compaq Presario V3155AU Notebook PC

Here is the list of drivers you need to download and run :
» Install Microsoft UAA Driver. (Google Search)
» Conexant High Definition Audio (for AMD)
» NVIDIA nForce Chipset Driver
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Graphics Driver
» Synaptics Touchpad
» Conexant HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP Driver
» Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver
» HP Wireless Assistant
» Ricoh 5-in-1 Card Reader Host Controller and Driver
» AMD Processor Update for Microsoft Windows XP

Here is my device driver list screenshot after full installation :



Fedora Core 6
In FC6, changing the default driver from vesa to nv (nvidia) driver can cause the mouse pointer to disappear. Mouse pointer may be hidden or cannot be seen. So add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make it as follows :

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        Option      "HWcursor" "false"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Auto mounting File Systems in Linux

Some Linux Distros (like Fedora Core 6 FC6) do not automatically mount the local file systems such as FAT/FAT32 systems that belong to the windows drive. To mount and unmount file systems you must be logged on as a root user or must have root privileges

Mounting Manually

First change to root

@localhost ~]$ su
Password: Password
root@localhost ]# mount -t Filesystem Device Directory

Mounting the file system manually is done by the mount command.

Filesystem is vfat for FAT/FAT32 File System.
Other filesystems that could be given can be found on

/etc/filesystems

The Device can be got from System > Administration > Logical Volume Management which shows local hard drives and its name as

/dev/sdaX

or

/dev/hdaX

etc.

The Directory specifies which folder must the file system be mounted into. For example if you want to mount to mnt/hddC/ the device /dev/sda8 (FAT32) , the full command is

@localhost ~]$ su
Password: 
root@localhost ]# mkdir /mnt/hddC
root@localhost ]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda8 /mnt/hddC

NTFS
Install ntfs-3g module by yum install ntfs-3g

root@localhost ]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/hddD -o force

Unmounting the File System

@localhost ~]$ su
Password: 
root@localhost ]# umount /dev/sda8

Automatcially Mounting File Systems :

To automatically mount certain file systems, so that we do not want to do the same procedure each time the computer starts, we have to edit the

/etc/fstab

file. To edit the same you must have root access. Assuming you have root access to mount a local Filesystem, add the following line.

Device ID Mount Directory FileSystem Options

Eg:

/dev/sda8 /mnt/sda1 vfat rw,umask=0000,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

where the uid=500, gid=500 must be replaced by the proper user ids which can be got from System > Administration > Users and Groups in Fedora Core 6.

Automounting NTFS
Append

/dev/sda8  /mnt/hddD  ntfs-3g  default 0 0

Help me
I did this in Fedora Core 6. If any of you guys have any information on how to do the same on other linux distros , or if you have any other information, please post a comment.