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Computer Professional Programming

cpupower

I’ve been reading the Red Hat System Administration I course material and came across an interesting utility: cpupower!

You can use it to view your CPU frequency and set the range it can operate in: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/power_management_guide/tuning_cpufreq_policy_and_speed

Here’s me making my laptop CPU slower 🙂

$ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
...
current CPU frequency: 2.73 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
...

$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -u 400000
Setting cpu: 0
...

$ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
...
current CPU frequency: 400 MHz (asserted by call to kernel)
...

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Heartbeat

Heartbeat – Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

:coffee:

Tend to cloud computers. Facebook.

Twitter:

The New York Times:

  • The Front Page – “Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich”: The U.S. Treasury is thinking about allowing the cost portion of the capital gains tax calculation to be adjusted for inflation. This would reduce the amount of tax collected and overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans.

Duolingo.

Reddit:

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Heartbeat

Heartbeat – Thursday, May 31st, 2018

…drinks coffee…

News from The San Francisco Chronicle:

  • SF Mayor Mark Farrell re-endorsed the San Francisco Shipyard housing development. Area to be tested for radiation contamination from time as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
  • Texas Governor Greg Abbot released recommendations to help prevent school shootings in the wake of one at Santa Fe High School in Houston, Texas.
  • A Russian journalist exiled in Ukraine faked his own death in concert with police to foil a $40,000.00 hit placed on him by the Russian security service.
  • Global markets reacted unfavorably to political turmoil in Italy. President Sergio Mattarella refused to appoint a euro-skeptic economy minister popular with the 5-Star Movement and League parties. He instead appointed former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli to run a politically neutral government.

I’ve been playing Diablo III for the first time. It’s a very pretty game and I like collecting equipment but there’s not much of a challenge to it. Like wandering through a grim fairy tale while constantly clicking. Maybe someday I can replay it on higher difficulty 🙂

Jogged a couple of laps. Did a little yoga.

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