Found the Speaker finally
Jim Klein
Director of Information Services
Saugus Union School District
Now to find out the power management tool he used...
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, James Mcphee <
jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I usually turn down my cpu's frequency to reduce heat. also increases
> battery life. cpufrequtils makes it easy.
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> yeah someone made a tool that did allot of under the hood stuff like
>> this and allowed you some nice control over it.
>>
>> im not used to linux laptops. but firt run battery life went from
>> about 2.5 hrs to nearly 6.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Joseph Sinclair
>> <plug-discussion@stcaz.net> wrote:
>> > Not sure about alternate tools; but you should read this post on
>> > Phoronix about kernel regressions that cause high power consumption:
>> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=1
>> >
>> > On 06/30/2011 08:59 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> >> Yay i finally got a spare drive to do an install of Linux on this
>> >> thing.
>> >>
>> >> at ableconf last a gentleman was talking about power management that
>> >> he was using in his school district on some netbooks. I cant fro the
>> >> life of me remember what it was nor can i find my notes that were
>> >> taken on the matter.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone remember what he was using? or the school district he was
>> >> from?
>> >>
>> >> Or even some good ideas? right now im starting with a fresh Ubuntu
>> >> 11.04... and i just remember that it made power times on battery
>> >> phenomenally better on this power hungry beast.
>> >>
>> >> Anyhow thanks in advance!
>> >>
>> >
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>>
>> Stephen
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Stephen
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