Caffeine, silicon and nimesulide

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Mixed emotions from splinder

I’ve just saved my first blog from the soon-to-be-closed blogging platform splinder.com. And I read each post.

I started blogging in 2003. I was in my nerdiest period ever and that one was my non-tech blog.. I also had a alternative nickname for it :)

Mixed emotions in reading stuff from 8 to 5 years ago.

Trees waiting for Xmas (Taken with picplz.)

Trees waiting for Xmas (Taken with picplz.)

temp dir cleaner

I’ve just released one of the my scripts I use on my computers (laptops and servers).

I developed the first version of this simple script some years ago.. it was useful to keep clean a shared temporary directory of an internal server we used for file transfers. 

Then, for some reasons, I simply lost it. Some months ago I decided to rewrite it, to automatically delete old temporary files on my laptop, since I started using “sleep” over “shut down”..

Now it’s hosted on github!

The Tegra 3 is functionally a quad-core processor, but includes a fifth “companion” core. All cores are Cortex-A9s, but the companion core is manufactured with a special low power silicon process. This means it uses less power at low clock rates, but more at higher rates; hence it is limited to 500 MHz. There is also special logic to allow running state to be quickly transferred between the companion core and one of the normal cores. The goal is for a mobile phone or tablet to be able to power down all the normal cores and run on only the companion core, using comparatively little power, during standby mode or when otherwise using little CPU

—Tegra 3 (Kal-El) series

(Source: Wikipedia)