zen talk

Today I watched two movies. The first one was '12 Angry Men' - a brilliant classic, and the second one is Over the hedge, a cool and funny cartoon movie! I enjoyed watching both! After that, I went out to the gym to disprove that I am a couch-potato :P. I was in gym after a long time (especially, going there alone with my self motivation is something that doesn't happen!), and spent there more than 90 minutes of an industrious exercise :O.

Recently battery life on my laptop (acer aspire 3820TG) has reduced quite heavily. I could not pin point any specific reason, but I thought that it has decreased significantly after I had brought ubuntu one into use. Without spending too much time on why the battery life reduced, I started googling tips for saving battery life on ubuntu. The following post gave very relevant tips, with very detailed explanation. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157408 So, I decided to activate the laptop-mode. In fact, doing so has apparently been even more easy than what was described in the above ubuntu forums post. All I had to do was to install laptop-mode-tools. sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools In fact, the laptop-mode-tools actually came out of box with quite sensible settings pre-configured, so I didn't have to do any extra work to get the laptop-mode working! The only thing I did was to install powertop and check that powertop had no more suggestions when I was running on b