Powerful Remote Incremental Backup with rdiff-backup

Published in August 22nd, 2009

Posted by Tom in software

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The last few days I have been testing backup software to automatically backup my desktop Ubuntu system. I’ve only just got it set up, but rdiff-backup is exactly what I was looking for and seems to be working very well.
rdiff-backup tries to “combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup”. It’s [...]

Extend Eee PC Battery Life with eee-control

Published in August 19th, 2009

Posted by Tom in software

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I’ve been using a small utility called eee-control on my Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with Ubuntu. eee-control lets you take control of the hardware on Eee PCs. Some of these controls, like the performance modes, were easily accessible in the default Asus Linux distribution but not from Ubuntu. It includes:

on/off toggles for the wifi [...]