It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...

Asus makes it relatively painless to adjust the clock speed and enable or disable hardware like the camera or WiFi on most Eee PC models – assuming you’re using Windows XP or Xandros. But if you want ...

auto-cpufreq auto-adjusts CPU frequency and governor to improve laptop battery life. auto-cpufreq 3.0.0 adds CLI/GUI CPU turbo override and battery device selection v3.0.0 fixes many bugs, improves ...

If you're not a Linux sysadmin, you might not be familiar with Control Web Panel, but if you are a Linux sysadmin, you almost certainly are at least aware of the app. Control Web Panel, or CWP, is a ...

The fortune command is generally considered one of the just-for-fun commands that you’ll find on linux systems, but it can prove useful in some interesting ways. Probably most Linux users run the ...

There are plenty of utilities out there to control keyboard LED indicators, but I'm rather interested in controlling the power LED on my headless 1U rackmount. While theoretically there are tons of ...

In a nutshell: Canadian hardware maker Ploopy is now accepting pre-orders for its latest input device. The Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed, open-source rotary encoder featuring a high-precision sensor ...

The Linux operating system is set to become the de facto standard for "embedded" devices like robotics, information appliances and automobile information systems, but fragmentation could prove a ...