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ubuntu 12.10 64-bit consuming 100% cpu power and high battery

I am new linux user, installed ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) from wubi (getting boot option (windows7/ubuntu). But after opening ubuntu, laptop gets heat up, fan running very fast and performance is very ...
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How can I save my laptops battery from draining? [duplicate]

I am using ubuntu 12.04 (switched from windows 8 recently) and I am finding that this OS is draining my laptops battery like anything (works only like 70% of windows). I also found this interesting ...
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How to run Ubuntu 12.10 on a Laptop with maximum power saving?

I have a Toshiba L500-21T with Intel core I3 M330 2.13GHZ having 4 cores with Amd Mobility Rdeon 4500 Graphic card, 360Gb HD and 6GB DDR3 RAM. How can I run my lappy smoothly while giving me ...
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How to set power setting to performance?

In Ubuntu 12.04 how do I set up the power settings to obtain maximum performance (opposed to max battery life)?
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Performance while on battery - Ubuntu 11.10

First time on battery after installing Ubuntu 11.10. What I immediately notice is poor graphics performance and overall poor system responsiveness. If I plug in the power chord, it's all good. I am ...
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Battery gets low after 2 hours & fan work to much on a Dell Inspiron N5110 [closed]

i have dell inspiron n5110 laptop belt in cards nividia&intel graphic card when battery is full lap stays on for 2 hours only but with windows 7 battery stays for 5 hours and half, fan works all ...
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Is there a way to force a specific file to exist in RAM only?

I like this suggestion of mounting a tmpfs at /var/log in order to reduce disk writes. Is there any way to do something similar for just a single file such as ~/.xsession-errors? My incentive for ...
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Netbook Edition battery life - Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu?

I've been running UNR on my eee 1000 pretty much since it came out over a year ago (I was using easy-peasy before that), but I'm curious about the new Kubuntu netbook edition. Ultimately, KDE is ...