On 30-Aug-2000 Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and > sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too > hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile > life easier. I've installed things like wmbattery to monitor battery > status and stuff. Is there more than that? Since the machine is > mobile it will be moving between networks often (sometimes with dhcp, > sometimes with static addresses). What do you folks find helpful in > this situation? >
apt-get install task-laptop # yes, I maintain it (-: I am also working on a re-write if divine. divine determines which network you are plugged into and sets you up based on configuration it was given ahead of time. joeyh packaged up noflushd. This causes linux to hold flushs to disk until absolutely necessary, so your disk will stay idle all the time. helps battery life. I have not added it to task-laptop because I am not convinced it is safe enough for me to force every laptop user to use it. I am talking to the author and the maintainer of apm about this.
