Archive for June, 2008
The Boot Process of a Computer
Gustavo Duarte has written series of interesting articles about the boot process of a computer.
There isn’t much more I can say about this subject myself, other that I found it interesting, so I’m just going to point you directly to these articles instead.
Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map
How Computers Boot Up
The Kernel Boot Process
Enjoy.
Different Fan Behaviour on ThinkPad X61 than X31
Since I got my new Lenovo ThinkPad X61, I have discovered that the CPU fan is behaving rather differently than the one I have in my IBM ThinkPad X31. That is the fan makes a lot more noise when idle on the X61.
For the record. I’m running Ubunty Hardy (8.04) on the X61 and Ubuntu [...]
Ubuntu Hardy and Hibernate Issues
As I mentioned in my last post I had some minor problems with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and hibernation. It didn’t always work.
However it now seems like I might have overcome this problem. At first I thought it might had something to do with my docking station. Hibernating while docked, booting up while not and vice [...]
ThinkPad X61
A few days a go I ordered a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 with 2GB memory option, X6 UltraBase docking station and an optical drive. It arrived the very next day, on a friday, so you can imagine the impact this had on my weekend.
To be fair, the laptop isn’t exactly mine. It belongs to my employer, [...]
