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curaga

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,15:33

Well, recompile the kernel, but add the con kolivas patchset for your kernel (2.4.26 if your using the latest DSL, but use fresh sources from kernel.org and add the knoppix patch from kernelsources.dsl after make menuconfig) it improves the ways the kernel uses RAM, swap and many other things. Enable preemptible and low-latency, and optimize for PII. This should give some speed improvement ;)

Also mess with the boot scripts. I did, and now my DSL box boots about 29s faster than right after hd-install. And it boots up 20s faster compared to a XP box with roughly 25 times more horsepower (124mhz vs 3 Ghz)

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,15:41

Quote (lucky13 @ Mar. 08 2007,10:18)

Bogomips is an arbitrary measure. I still don't think you should mess with the hardware side of things.

Plastics melt at various temperatures. It depends on its formulation. If you're worried about leaving puddles under your laptop and you also have metal shop skills, you can try re-building a case for your laptop out of aluminum or sheet metal. That may not be such a good idea unless you wear asbestos gloves when you type.

Stupid questions, hopefully, prevent stupid behaviors. Don't set your laptop on fire, okay?

I'll try and not set my laptop on fire

thanks for the info on te lastics. The reason I asked is im thinking of doing a little "mod" and Im trying to design a better heat exhaust system that would be a external attachment over the stock exhaust port. Im thinking of getting one of those little kerboard vacumes and going from there. Is it possible to solder plastic like one would do when welding metal?

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,16:02

Curaga thanks for the link.

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,16:43

I just did a google search and found an interesting wiki on welding plastic heres the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_welding

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,22:29

Quote (meltdown_override @ Mar. 08 2007,10:41)

Is it possible to solder plastic like one would do when welding metal?

"Plastics" refers to a very broad group of polymerized materials, so it depends on the particular engineering of the material(s) you want to join. In a nutshell, no to the soldering idea. And probably no to welding, too, although certain plastics can be welded to each other.

My best idea for joining similar or dissimilar plastics would be to use an epoxy. You may want to find a "craptop" to experiment with if you decide to go that route because there's really no undoing a bad epoxy job. Epoxies are also exothermic, meaning they create heat during cure. You want to make sure that the heat the epoxy you use won't melt the plastics you want to join -- I suppose the laptop case should be fine, but I have no idea about any kind of vacuum like that.

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