How To Disable On-Demand CPU Scaling on Linux

Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements. In such cases you may want to manually stop cpu speed daemon and restart it later again if required. Here are the required commands:

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How To Install Windows msi Files in Linux

In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only. However you can also use it to open msi files as follows: Full article (47 words) »

How To Install Thunderbird 2 on Fedora; Fedora Development Respository Broken for Fedora Core 6

I tried installing Thunderbird 2 from Fedora Core 6 Development Respository, the file actually belongs to currently in development Fedora 10. Yum / Yumex required that nss package be updated too in order to update Thunderbird. The update went through fine but the software couldn't be run because of initialization error in libgfx_gtk.so and I couldn't find any help on the net either.

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How To Install Lighttpd On Fedora Linux

Login as or su to root and run:
yum -y install pcre zlib lighttpd

That's it folks!

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