Issue 2013 - August

I've noticed some strange lags on Lenovo G780 I've bought for my parents. It started with random lags in sound output. Then it turned in whole laptop freezing for a couple seconds. I've checked load and it was high and the only reason, the sensible one, I could think of was HDD. I thought it was APMs doing, you know - green, green, green!, so I've turned it off via hdparm. It didn't help and I couldn't play any music at all later on.

I had my eyes on pulse-audio for quite some time by then, but I was reluctant to make a move. I did, rebooted notebook just to be sure and all those problems went away. No more lagging/disrupted audio output, no more lags/freezes as far as I can tell.

Good bye, pulse-audio. You won't be missed!

— Zdenek Styblik 2013/08/17 12:18

This is just a personal review what I did in August

• kvm-wrapper MOD - caught up with upstream, abolished Bash completely
• got sick thanks to polluted water
• lxc - did take a quick look and was rather impressed by consistence of cli tools
• I've toyed around with Asus Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy S3
• fake-ipmistack - work has begun

— Zdenek Styblik 2013/08/31 23:59