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How can get a battery and/or power status to show in the system tray of Windows Server 2008? I want this because this server is actually a laptop.
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Regardless of battery charge, when unplugged Ubuntu displays critical battery message and hibernates. I can only seem to change it to either shutdown or hibernate.
This does not happen when using windows 7 on the same computer. Windows 7 gives a good few hours on a full charge indicating that it…
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I have a bluetooth mouse connected to my laptop.
Much to my delight (I posted the suggestion!) the mouses battery is now displayed along side the laptop's battery.
Unfortunately is is named simply "battery" in the drop down and "Laptop battery" once the power statistics windows is opened. The details…
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My laptop is Thinkpad E420 with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed, the kernel version is 3.2.0-33-generic.
I have set the battery threshold as 60% via windows7. It seems that the threshold auto effected in Ubuntu.
However, there are some problems of the battery indicator's state.
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To have a long life with the battery it has to be separated from the Laptop after each use
Developing a Laptop and concern about it's battery life Don't be concerned follow this advice how to deal with your Laptop battery. A fresh power supply of your Laptop can be purchased in a very low charge…
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Calibrating the HP Laptop Battery
This document pertains to HP Notebook PCs with Windows 7 and Vista.
Calibrating the laptop battery
Calibrating the battery means recharging the battery to its maximum capacity and resetting the battery gauge to display the level of charge accurately.
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I am building a raid array in a separate enclosure. I will be putting an empty tower case next to an existing tower computer, and this second tower case will only hold hard drives.
There are many solutions for connecting the drives in the second case to the raid card in the first case (SFF-8088…
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I have 7 port USB hub with external supply.
I tried turning it off by removing external power but then it takes power from motherboard and is still working.
I have many external hardrives connected to it.
i was worrying if i turn off the power it may damage the motherboard by withdrawing so much…
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I have researched the solution...
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac "nothing"
does not fix it. I have two external monitors and when I close my lid the settings are reset and the laptop's monitor is set to the default.
Thanks!
gsettings list-recursively…
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If you’re looking for a desktop power supply for your electronics workbench, this tutorial video shows you how to turn a computer PSU into a desktop power supply.
In the above video the guys at JumperOneTV show us how to make a desktop power supply. As an addendum to the video; they note in…
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I have Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 (no Unity), gnome-screen-saver has been removed and replaced with xscreensaver. The screensaver stuff all works fine -- no complaints there. When I close my laptop lid, even for a second, the screen locks (and the dialog box asking for my password is xscreensaver's)…
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