notes from Ken

Virtualization is still shiny. I’ve been playing with VirtualBox 2.0.0 tonight. I’ m writing this from an Ubuntu 8.04 VM running on my Windows XP desktop machine in “seamless windows” mode. It’s not quite as “seamless” as VMWare Fusion’s Unity mode on the Mac, but it’s still pretty neat.
VirtualBox 2.0.0 [...]

lesswatts.org has some interesting reading and references an interesting utility called powertop (which is available as a package in Ubuntu). It turns out there are some easy things to reduce the power used by a Linux server (or desktop or laptop, but I cared about the server) by a few watts here and there [...]