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If you have ever used a Linux system you will probably have seen the boot up text. The boot up text can be quite informative if you’re ever having hardware or system problems when you boot up. Or the boot up text can look kinda cool and make you feel like you’re in one of those old school green screen computer movies.

Almost all new processors have the ability to scale down their frequencies.  With laptops this allows you to save a ton of battery life.  Read my previous post on how to save battery life in Linux.

With desktops (and laptops), scaling the CPU frequency will not only save you money on your power bill but will also let your computer run cooler.  Why would you want your computer running at full speed all of the time when you don’t need it?  Instead, here is how to scale your CPU frequency for on demand performance.

Step 1:
Right click on one of the panels (top or bottom of screen) and then choose ‘Add to panel.’

Step 2:
When the Add to Panel…

Ever left your computer alone for 5 minutes to come back and realize it crashed and restarted itself?

Here’s a quick guide on how to keep a log of your shutdowns. Logging will give you a time and reason for your crash/unplanned shutdown so hopefully you can fix the problem.

Step 1: Go to the start menu, click Run and then type in ‘regedit’. You should see a screen that looks like this:

Step 2: Find your way to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability.  The complete path is located in the bottom left corner of the window.

Step 3: Right click on ‘ShutdownReasonUI’ (if you don’t have that file go to step 3.1) then click Modify. You should see something like this:

As many already know, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 3G to replace the currently out of stock iPhone that was first introduced nearly a year ago. Pictured here, the basic design of the new device is remarkably similar to its predecessor but features a new glossy back in black for both the 8GB and 16GB versions, but also is offered with a glossy white back for the 16GB version. The keynote presentation, which can be viewed here, kicked off the 2008 WWDC was heavily centered around the iPhone 2.0 firmware.

Amongst the new features included in the new 2.0 firmware was the third party application distribution…

Less than 24 hours stand between now and the highly anticipated Keynote presentation from Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California.

Apple’s WWDC kicks off with this presentation at 10:00 A.M. PT June 9th and runs through the 13th in which development for OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone are expected to be the main focus.

Additionally, many believe the introduction of the new 3G iPhone will occur during Jobs’ Keynote presentation while the possible introduction of a new product may occur.

Check back later today and throughout the rest of the coming week for coverage of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference…

With all Linux distributions come updates, especially with new versions.  Usually these updates consist of security fixes and new versions of core software.  However, every so often new kernels are released.  The Linux kernel is the core of all distributions.  When these are updated, most of the time your Grub boot menu will become cluttered with multiple kernels.  Here is how to edit your Grub boot menu.

To begin, open the boot menu list in your favorite text editor.  The following code will open the list using gedit, with sudo privileges.
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Once the gedit window opens, you will see a text file with lots of information included.  Don’t worry if you don’t understand what some of the text…

Amarok, a familiar name from the Linux community, has decided it’s newest release will be available to all you Windows users. But what is Amarok? Amarok is an open source, extremely popular music player. It’s current version is only available in Linux, in fact I’m listening to my music through Amarok right now. Before I switched to Linux I was a heavy iTunes user but now I’d rather use Amarok. I can’t really pin-point anything that makes Amarok so much better than iTunes, I guess it’s just that I’m comfortable with Amarok now. For all you iTunes haters, Linux lovers, or people looking for a decent music app, Amarok is worth a good look. A list of what Amarok…