Colin Ian King

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I've been bit twiddling on hardware ever since I got my hands on a Commodore 64, and now I work for the Ubuntu Kernel Team where I specialise in working on weird hardware and firmware related bugs. You can find me on freenode in #ubuntu-kernel, IRC nick cking.

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26	Is “laptop-mode-tools” still relevant for 12.04 and the 3.x kernels?
14	Is there ongoing work in the kernel team to improve battery life under linux?
11	How can I tell if my system was booted as EFI/UEFI or BIOS?
10	Any way to check the clock speed of my processor?
6	Why limit the number of open files and Running processes in Linux?

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+10	Do 'Tunables' in 'PowerTop' help on battery life?
+10	Why does the first partition start at sector 34 when I choose “Guided - Use entire disk” during install?
+10	Finding the ip address of another computer on the network?
+10	Serial port terminal > Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied

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72 kernel × 20	19 command-line × 4
70 12.04 × 23	17 bios × 8
53 power-management × 15	17 uefi × 3
33 laptop × 6	13 battery × 10
26 cpu × 10	13 boot × 4