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Solar cells from donuts and tea – energy crisis solved?
Nov 5th
Yes I know – this has not got anything to do with mobile computing (sorry), and No, its not an april hoax at all – but I simply had to write about it.. as you can see on the youTube video below, this guy actually makes a small (and inefficient but still amazing) solar panel at home – from donuts, “starbucks passion” red hibiscus flower tea, water, vodka and some microscopy object slides…
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Solar cells from donuts and tea – energy crisis solved?
howTo: Jaunty Jackalope with custom netbook kernel
Nov 5th
Now it has been over a week since I installed Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” on my netbook, and in the meantime I’ve been working on customizing things to my needs. One main tweak consisted of replacing the default “2.6.28-8-generic” kernel with the more appropriate “2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc” kernel compiled by Adam McDaniel over at array.org , main reason was merely the unpleasant sound of the word “generic” to me, since this “generic” kernel was working quite well – there was no obvious need to replace it. But I still thought it would be nice to have the core of the operating system customized to my hardware.
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howTo: Jaunty Jackalope with custom netbook kernel
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