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Colin Ian King

United Kingdom

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/

I've been bit twiddling on hardware ever since I got my hands on a Commodore 64, and now I work for the Ubuntu Kernel Team where I specialise in working on weird hardware and firmware related bugs. You can find me on freenode in #ubuntu-kernel, IRC nick cking.

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How can I tell if my system was booted as EFI/UEFI or BIOS?

Any way to check the clock speed of my processor?

User limit of inotify watches reached on Ubuntu 16.04

How to find out why process was killed on server

Serial port terminal > Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied

PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Receiver ID)

Is "laptop-mode-tools" still relevant for 12.04 and the 3.x kernels?

CPU benchmarking utility for Linux

How to check RAM size?

How to check serial number of NVMe disk?

Generate white noise to calm a baby

Why does Ubuntu 16.04 set all drive IO schedulers to "deadline"?

How to install a package that contains Ubuntu kernel debug symbols?

How to format a USB stick

is 'dd' command taking too long?

stress-ng: Simulate specific cpu percentages

serverfault.com

Is ZFS on Ubuntu 20.04 using a ton of memory?

Stress-ng: RAM testing commands

stackoverflow.com

Creating a large size file in less time

Dynamic MMap ran out of room when trying to sudo apt-get anything

Do 'Tunables' in 'PowerTop' help on battery life?

files created then deleted at every second in tmp directory

Is there ongoing work in the kernel team to improve battery life under linux?

how can i test if ubuntu activated hyperthreading?

why ls -a command showing file name in red color?

Is there a benchmark tool for Ubuntu?

Why does it say I have "x 2" processor?

How to find out why process was killed on server

How can I see what process spiked CPU usage and froze the system a few seconds ago?

Why does the first partition start at sector 34 when I choose "Guided - Use entire disk" during install?