Nice to see some fantastic ORIGINAL CONTENT on Lifehacker!

This trick is as old as the hills. In my experience, it does make a noticeable difference in battery life, but it doesn't last, and the battery steadily degrades back to its' former state.

So run linux at home, use Windows at work like I do :)

Are you fucking for REAL?

Thought I'd chuck mine up too: [i113.photobucket.com]

I've almost always used desktops, mostly because that's what I had back in the 80s and what I was used to, and the price of laptops was prohibitively expensive while I was a kid :P

@gizmodome: no, i'm aware of, and use, swiftfox. there are only p4 binaries on the sourceforge site for ioswiftfox. no prescott, no pentium m, no athlon-xp, etc etc etc

I already do most of those things.

Are you kidding? This extension has been out for like three years now, and covered about 100 billion times. I'm surprised this author even knows about Firefox.

Where's the binaries for all the other architectures?

This really all just depends on the other party.

The article is down, but I'm guessing the guy just used 4 of the "unused" wires in his Cat5 plug, 2 to carry DC+ and two to carry DC-? It still would require plugging an adaptor in SOMEWHERE, but would make things alot easier if you need to stick a router in a roof or whatever.

Nautilus is the default file manager type program under Debian & Ubuntu's GNOME desktops. You use it for creating, launching, organising and finding files and folders on your PC.

My work (an international mining company with over 68000 employees) uses this as part of their corporate SOE.