My notebook with on-board NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 was hot and sometimes it was too hot ;)

Now it isn't. It is cool and silent (GPU temperature is 10 degrees lower now). But it wasn't easy to investigate, NVIDIA has PowerMizer, PerfLevelSrc, GPUAdaptiveClockState and may other terrible words to make user "happy".

Learn how to control your NVIDIA GPU frequency under FreeBSD with the original NVIDIA binary driver (should work under Linux too).

You are probably aware of new amazing Gmail Themes. Google also provides us with several themes that change Gmail interface appearance depending on some conditions (day of week, time of day or weather conditions in your location).

Some time ago I tried to learn how CSS works. So now you have Gmail Dynamic Themes Preview. Enjoy!

P. S.
Bonus: What do Gmail Weather Conditions mean?.

Wanna have Flash9 plugin for native Firefox3 under FreeBSD 7-STABLE with sound and fixed A-V sync issue?

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Поговорим об интерфейсах человек-машина, точнее о некоторых ошибках их проектирования.

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Про способ № 1 я писал недавно.

( теперь берёмся за дело организованно )

Как-нибудь перенесу (а возможно и перепишу) эти темы сюда:

• Бази даних та часові пояси
  
• Lock files
  
• Боремся со взломом капчи
  
• UFS over Gjournal over GELI over bsdlabel over SATA
  
• и ещё кучу юмористических заметок…