Tag: 2013

PowerTop – Bad: NMI watchdog should be turned off

PowerTop rated a “Bad” for “NMI watchdog should be turned off”. From Arch’s thread it was found out that NMI is fairly not needed.

laptop-mode-tools error- SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]

In the name of power saving and reduction of cpu heat, I followed the instructions via this thread in ArchLinux BBS (Oh yes, ArchLinux instructions usable in Ubuntu :D). Part of the options made available is to install laptop-mode-tools, in which it gave me this error while it was trying to be activated during installation […]

Getting Started with Ubuntu App Development

Amazingly easy tutorial to build a simple browser application via Quickly for Ubuntu.

Unable to run currency converter app in Qt Creator with ubuntu-sdk

Many rookie like me will find it perplexed when our currency converter app tutorial for Ubuntu SDK failed to work when we click “Preview (qmlscene)” after following steps recommended to invoke qmlscene instead of qmlviewer. Apparently there were great change in how we install and run ubuntu-sdk at the latest qt5-proper moving from qt5-beta. qt5 […]