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Driving home tonight, I listened to Hugh Hewitt inerviewing Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News. Since then, I've reviewed the entire transcript here. I would urge you to read the interview, or track down Hugh's podcast of it when it appears at TownHall. It was one of the most remarkable interviews I've listened to in a long time. Remarkable, in part, because Halperin came across very well. He was promoting a book, The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. But the conversation ranged far beyond the usual book-plugging discourse, and Halperin was much more than a reluctant foil for Hugh's questions.
In fact, on one basic issue that Hugh and Halperin batted back and forth, I'm on Halperin's side: Hugh, as I've said before, is of the view that there is no such thing as unbiased reporting, and so we should all declare our biases and have at it. Halperin defended the more traditional view, with which I agree, that unbiased news coverage (as opposed to commentary or opinion journalism) is an honorable if never fully achievable goal.
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CHARLESTON, S.C.—The No. 4 Yale coed sailing team proved to the college sailing world that they are the team racing team to beat with a team race season opening win at the Bob Bavier Team Race hosted by the College of Charleston on the Cooper River. The Bulldogs were able to remain consistent over both days to take the win.
Saturday a stiff breeze came out to play in Charleston, S... The breeze ranged from eight to 15 knots throughout the day, coming out of the Northwest. Teams completed between 15 and 17 races depending on where they were in the rotation on a double-modified port triangle course that is used to battle the cross current on the Cooper River. At the end of day one the Bulldogs sat in third place with a record of 11-4, just behind No. 2 Charleston and No. 9 Stanford.
Sunday brought a shiftier breeze of eight to 12 knots from the northeast with cooler temperatures that only topped out in the 50's, which the race committee deemed to be "chilly." Because of the strong current and the unstable breeze, the course, a college N, was moved southward to the Crab Bank area. Over the course of the day, the remainder of the second round robin and the entire third round robin were completed for a grand total of 136 races in the regatta with each team sailing 27 races.
The Bulldogs improved on their day one third-place standing by winning all twelve of their races, proving that all of the rust had been shed on Saturday. The other teams were unable to keep up with the Bulldogs' impressive winning streak. The Bulldogs finished with a record of 23-4 with No. 9 Stanford finishing a win behind in second with a record of 22-5. No. 2 Charleston finished third on a record of 21-6 with No. 7 Georgetown and No. 13 Navy rounding out the top five with records of 16-11.
Skippers junior captain Cameron Cullman, senior Joseph Morris and sophomore Chris Segerblom and crews freshman Katherine Gaumond, junior Heather May and senior Genoa Warner sailed for the Bulldogs.
While the Bulldogs have had weekly meetings all winter to discuss team race strategy, this was the first regatta where they could take all of the conversations and planning out on the water and use it in practice. Clearly, the work the Bulldogs put in in the classroom paid off as they were able to overcome the disadvantage of having less practice than colleges who are in warmer locations and are able to get back out on the water earlier in the year such as Charleston and Stanford.
The Bulldogs will jumpstart two weeks of spring break training and competition next weekend at the Eckerd Intersectional in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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If the CEO of your company is old enough to sign up for Medicare, there's a greater chance that you'll soon be working not just for a new CEO, but for an entirely different company. That's one takeaway from new findings by researchers at the Stanford and Dartmouth graduate business schools, who report that companies with CEOs between the ages of 64 and 66 are considerably more likely to undergo a successful takeover than companies with younger leaders.
The study, which is slated to be published at a later date in the Journal of Finance, looked at a database of about 9,000 public companies over the period between 1989 and 2007. Over that span, companies with older CEOs were 32% more likely to be successfully acquired than companies whose CEOs were between the ages of 59 and 63.
The findings may have quite a bit to do with the siren song of retirement. In an interview with Rachel Feintzig of The Wall Street Journal this week, Dirk Jenter, an associate professor of finance at Stanford and one of the study authors, explains that the assent of the CEO of the target company is often one of the biggest factors in whether an acquisition bid succeeds—in part because those grandees usually lose the top job as a result of the purchase. So executives in their prime are more likely to be resistant to a takeover, Jenter says; but older ones may be ready to put on an exclamation point on their careers with one last deal.
So should you be scouring LinkedIn to figure out how old your CEO is? It couldn't hurt. But keep in mind that acquisitions are still a relatively rare thing: Even for companies with older CEOs, the likelihood of a successful takeover in any given year was 5.8% (compared with 4.4% for those with younger leaders).
Also on Encore:
Side effect of the recession: Older bosses
Over 50? Spin your age to protect your job
Don Zimmer's life lesson: Never retire
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are headed to USA Basketball camp. LeBron James' summer plans still seem up in the air.
The United States added eight players to its roster Wednesday, highlighted by the college stars who figure to be the top two picks in the NBA draft.
"To show that they already have this commitment to playing for the United States at this age is terrific," U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said during a conference call. "Hopefully they'll play many, many years for the United States."
Jason Kidd, Carlos Boozer, Deron Williams, Mike Miller, Tayshaun Prince and Tyson Chandler also were invited to Las Vegas for training camp in July, a month before the Americans will try to qualify for the 2008 Olympics.
James, one of the team's captains, has called himself only "50-50" to join his teammates in the tournament because his girlfriend is expecting a baby next month and he wants to rest.
"I've been pretty clear on the fact that the commitments have worked both ways. These three-year commitments, we expect people to honor those," USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo said. "But we have things that come up in life, let's be realistic about that. Injuries, family situations, and so I want to take each case individually.
"At this point regarding LeBron, I think it's hearsay. Because what I'm hearing from his people is something different than what I've seen printed in the papers. So I'm not going to deal with that now. We'll deal with it when it's time."
Colangelo also said Phoenix star Amare Stoudemire called Krzyzewski on Tuesday to confirm his participation. Stoudemire, who had two knee surgeries last year, seemed hesitant to play after the Suns' season ended.
The Americans hoped to have this summer off, but instead were forced to qualify for the Olympics after failing to win the world championships last summer. They lost in the semifinals to Greece, whose bigger guards took advantage of the smaller U.S. backcourt.
Kidd and Williams should help that weakness.
"The international guards, a lot of them are big. It's much more physical," Krzyzewski said. "There's much more physical contact on the ballhandler, and if you don't match that strength you can get knocked back and it affects the way run your offense and defense."
Oden and Chandler add the rebounding and shot blocking that Colangelo sought, Prince is an excellent defensive player, and Miller gives the Americans some sorely needed perimeter shooting.
"There was a rhyme and reason for every player who was an addition to this roster," Colangelo said.
The Americans will gather for training camp from July 20-22, with a blue-white game on the last day. The roster will be trimmed before the team returns to camp in August.
Besides the players added Wednesday, the Americans are also getting back Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Billups and Michael Redd, who couldn't play last summer. The final 12-man roster for the FIBA Americas tournament must be submitted the day before the Aug. 22 start.
Oden and Durant will have a chance to be on it. Even if they aren't, being in camp gives them experience for future international play.
"They stand to be prominently displayed," Colangelo said.
The Americans will clinch a berth in Beijing by finishing in the top two in the qualifier. Boozer, back with USA Basketball after playing for the bronze-medal team in the 2004 Olympics, wants to do better than that.
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Many Northwest wineries are crafting dry, crisp rosés. Some of the best are coming from Oregon and its signature grape, Pinot Noir.
Making a great rosé is not a simple task, said Dai Crisp, owner and winemaker of Lumos Wine Co. in Philomath.
"There's a lot that can go wrong fast," he said. "Pinot Noir is tricky to grow and make into a beautiful wine. It is difficult to make an expressive rosé that is clean with no microbial problems. It can reveal winemaking faults (more than red wines)."
The number of rosés is astonishing and surprising, though not so to Crisp. This spring, he made a sales trip to New York City and learned about the power of pink.
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"New York and other cities on the East Coast are serious about drinking rosé," he said. "As soon as it warms up, it's rosé season."
Crisp said one small New York City wine shop owner told Crisp that he typically will sell as many as 600 cases of rosé each spring and summer.
The quality of these rosés also are a harbinger of the quality of Oregon's 2012 vintage. The red wines from 2012 likely will begin hitting store shelves in another year.
Meanwhile, here are several top-rated Oregon Pinot Noir rosés to enjoy this summer.
Left Coast Cellars 2012 Rosé of Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $18: This wine comes from the Willamette Valley town of Rickreall not far from Salem. It opens with alluring aromas of light cherry, peach and spice, followed by flavors of pink grapefruit, strawberry and cherry, all backed with just a hint of sweetness. It's a gorgeous wine for enjoying on a sunny Northwest summer day.
Lumos Wine Co. 2012 Chiquita Pinot Noir Rosé, Oregon, $20: This is just the second rosé made by Crisp. It's a stunner with aromas of Honeycrisp apple, strawberry, pomegranate and raspberry. On the palate, it offers flavors of honeysuckle, peach, minerality and white pepper. The length left us in awe. This is seriously great wine.
Elk Cove Vineyards 2012 Pinot Noir Rosé, Willamette Valley, $16: Second-generation winemaker Adam Campbell crafts some of Oregon's finest Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir, and he shows off his prowess with pink wines as well. This opens with stunning aromas of strawberry, pomegranate, apricot and cinnamon, followed by loads of flavors, including cranberry, pink grapefruit and cherry.
Patton Valley Vineyard 2012 Pinot Noir Rosé, Willamette Valley, $18: It begins with aromas of apricot, raspberry, slate and clove, while the flavors include blood orange, Meyer Lemon and cherry. We thought this would be perfect with teriyaki chicken or an egg salad sandwich.
Raptor Ridge Winery 2012 Rosé, Willamette Valley, $20: Owner/winemaker Scott Shull made this primarily from Pinot Noir, though he added a bit of old vine Gewrztraminer. It's a superb dry wine with aromas of strawberry, pomegranate, clove and orange oil, followed by flavors of raspberry, ripe strawberry and fresh cranberry.
Ponzi Vineyards 2012 Pinot Noir Rosé, Willamette Valley, $20: This Oregon Pinot Noir pioneer continues to produce some superb wines, and this rosé by second-generation winemaker Luisa Ponzi is brilliant, with inviting aromas of cherry, red currant and raspberry, backed by beautiful flavors of Benton cherry, peach and raspberry. This is a perfect wine to enjoy with grilled or baked salmon.
Mt. Hood Winery 2012 Pinot Noir Rosé, Columbia Gorge, $17: This is a head-turning pink wine from a Hood River, Ore., winery. It produces inviting aromas of fresh raspberry, apple and cotton candy, then transitions into a drink of cherry and strawberry flavors. It has a touch of sweetness, thanks to 1.9 percent residual sugar, making this a perfect wine to pair with a comfortable chair and a summer sunset.
-- Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman run Great Northwest Wine; greatnorthwestwine.com.


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James Willis Staying At Louisiana As Defensive Coordinator
Louisiana Ragin' Cajun defensive coordinator James Willis has decided to remain with the program, just one day after telling players of his decision to leave.
Willis, who in his first season, helped a Louisiana defense improve to third in the Sun Belt Conference in 2013, as compared to eighth in 2012, had reportedly accepted the position of linebackers coach with the Florida St. Seminoles.
The 41-year old Willis, who played in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Seattle Seahawks, also played one season in the now defunct XFL, with the Birmingham Thunderbolts, before college coaching stops at Rhode Island (2004), Temple (2005), Auburn (2006-2008), Alabama (2009), and Texas Tech (2010).
This past season, the Cajun defense ranked third in yards allowed (393.5 ypg), second in rushing yards allowed (150.7 ypg), fifth in passing yards allowed (242.8 ypg), fourth in points-per-game allowed (26.5), and first in interceptions (14).
The Cajuns went 9-4 for a third-consecutive year, including a 24-21 win over Tulane in the New Orleans Bowl, their third-straight win in that bowl game.


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Director James Mangold can make a serious film with extra twists for a grown-up audience. His credits include "Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma" and the offbeat thriller "Identity." In "Knight and Day" he adds a touch of Alfred Hitchcock and James Bond to his high-energy mix.
He combines action with romantic comedy for a modern version of classic films like "North by Northwest" or "Arabesque." Cary Grant and Gregory Peck play the cool characters at the center of those stories. Tom Cruise does a credible job playing a 21st century man of international intrigue. Cameron Diaz is the hot babe who stumbles into the hyperbolic plot and gets swept away on impossible adventures.
In a story like this, implausible developments are expected. Many strange turns and a nasty double-cross occur. High-speed chases and last-minute rescues abound. But there's also genuine humor and enough quiet time to provide welcome relief. The growing chemistry between Cruise and a maturing Diaz make it all very entertaining. This enterprise is a cut above the usual fare of this type. For fans of this genre, it's worth a summertime look and a big bag of popcorn.
Sleeper hit of the summer
"Cyrus" is a sly, quirky comedy that combines romance with a little creepiness. This improvised indie may just be this summer's surprise hit.
John (John C. Reilly) is a self-described "Shrek" who hasn't dated in years. He seems to find his happy ending when he meets sexy Molly (Marisa Tomei), and John soon moves in with her.
Ah but there's her son Cyrus – an eerily polite, overgrown mama's boy prone to panic attacks.
Jonah Hill ("Get Him to the Greek") is a pleasant surprise in Cyrus as a tightly wound man-child, the type people talk about on the 6 o'clock news as "he seemed like such a nice boy." Reilly is hilarious as a lovable loser who's not much more evolved than Cyrus.
'Grown Ups' gets thumbs down
"Grown Ups" is a so-so, overlong "Saturday Night Live" skit. It's 90 minutes of SNL alumni Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and also Kevin James trading riffs in a pricey sandbox.
As junior high pals reunited for one weekend, the guys try to revive their former box-office glory with buffoonish, grossout humor only they seem to find funny. The best bits were already seen in the trailer. Rock and the talented female cast — among them Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello — are sadly misused.
If only they'd had a hot tub time machine.
JOHN DEPKO is a Costa Mesa resident and a senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office.
SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a financial services company.


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ARLINGTON, Texas – Bears running back Matt Forte took the handoff, hopped to his right and ran through the hole in the middle for a gain of 8 yards.
Questionable coming into the game after missing last week's matchup with St. Louis, Forte's first carry on the Bears' first offensive play of their 34-18 win over Dallas on Monday seemed to provide an answer about whether his ankle was healthy. As he came to the sideline, though, it only opened more questions.
Trainers took his helmet away. Forte took a seat on the training table. Trainers re-taped Forte's ankle and the running back spent a handful of plays on the sideline, testing the ankle by cutting and juking around team personnel.
On the field, backup Michael Bush rushed three times for 11 yards.
Near the end of the quarter, Forte was given his helmet back. His second carry came with 1:10 remaining in the first, a gain of 1 yard. After another 1-yard gain, Forte went around the right end for nine, then behind the right tackle for 14.
He finished the night with 13 carries rushes for 52 yards, averaging 4 yards per carry. Most of his damage came in the first half, where he rushed seven times for 42 yards as the Bears headed into the locker room up 10-7.
As the Bears did most of their damage through the air – Jay Cutler threw 24 times, completing 18 of them for 275 yards and Chicago's two offensive touchdowns – and scored two defensive touchdowns, Forte didn't need to have much of an effect on the game, providing just enough of a threat for Cutler to move the passing attack.
Forte sat for much of the fourth quarter after the Bears took a 17-point lead. Bush rushed eight times after Forte returned to the game, finishing with 10 rushes for 29 yards. Four of those carries came with Chicago holding a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter. Bush had five carries for just 13 yards at halftime.
Forte's longest run of the night, a 14-yard gain, came in the second quarter. The Bears offensive line opened up a huge hole next to the right tackle that allowed Forte to get into the secondary and cut back across the field.
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Secondly, this wiki page assumes you are using kernel 2.6.29 or greater.
The stock 2.6.29 kernel works just fine. There is no need for a customized eeePC kernel. These customized kernels used to contain patches to allow the hotkeys and whatnot to work. All of these features have since been merged into the standard kernel.
Use the 2009.02 installation USB image (see Install_from_USB_stick). There is out-of-the-box support for the wired and wireless NICs. There are no special instructions for installation. For an in-depth guide on the installation see the Beginners_Guide.
This example uses hotplugging. Make sure that you have hal installed and started. Also, don't forget to add hal to the DAEMONS=() array in rc.conf!
Sample Config
Note: The 1000HE also functions correctly without using a xorg.conf!
Here is a basic xorg config file. Using xrandr, you can switch between the lcd + external display.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "dbe" Load "dri2" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "IntelCard" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "ASUS" ModelName "eeePC 1000he" Modeline "1024x600" 48.86 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -Hsync +Vsync EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "IntelCard" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 #Set to resolution of CRT/External EndSubSection EndSection
DPI Settings
In general the autodetected DPI does not fit the smaller resolution very well at all. A good comfortable setting would be 96dpi or 75dpi if you like your fonts really small. An easy way to set your DPI would be to add this to the end of your xserverrc (located in /etc/X11/xinit/).
exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 96
Graphic Performance
With X.org's new 2D acceleration architecture, EXA, users of the intel driver may experience slowdown with window redrawing and scrolling. A possible solution to this is to override intel's default 2D acceleration, XXA, with the new X.org acceleration. Add this section to the device section of your xorg.conf.
Option "AccelMethod" "exa" Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
In addition to improving 2D graphics, the card's 3D performance can be greatly enhanced by adding this line to your /etc/profile.
export INTEL_BATCH=1
See Intel Graphics for more information.
According to the intel driver documentation, X-Video Motion Compensation or "XvMC" is not enabled by default. Enabling this option can greatly reduce CPU utilization when playing back MPEG-2 video. To enable this option, two things need to be done; first, add this to the device section of your xorg.conf:
Option "XvMC" "true"
Lastly, create a config file to tell the X server where the XvMC library is:
echo /usr/lib/libIntelXvMC.so > /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
- Copy /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy
- Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and change <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge> accordingly
- Install the xf86-input-synaptics package
- Create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi with the following contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.product" contains="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">1.00</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">0.75</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">on</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.LockedDrags" type="string">1</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
For a nice GUI tool, try lxrandr; it is very simple to use!
Switch to External Monitor:
xrandr --output LVDS --off --output VGA --auto
Switch back to eeepc's LCD:
xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output VGA --off
I got the best powersaving from a combination of laptop-mode-tools.
- Use laptop-mode to control all power saving features. Enable bluetooth.conf, cpufreq.conf, hal-polling.conf, intel-hda-powersave.conf, usb-autosuspend.conf, lcd-brightness.conf
- For lcd-brightness, use the following options. Adjust your max/min brightness as suits you. The maximums are located in the same directory as the control file.
BATT_BRIGHTNESS_COMMAND="echo 3" LM_AC_BRIGHTNESS_COMMAND="echo 15" NOLM_AC_BRIGHTNESS_COMMAND="echo 15" BRIGHTNESS_OUTPUT="/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/eeepc/brightness"
- The intel-hda-powersave has a side-effect. Short sounds such as IM notifications may not come through, or will be messed up as it starts playing the sound before the sound card wakes up.
- The rt2860sta wireless has pretty good powersaving, but it's a tradeoff between throughput<->power usage. Minimum power usage gives a pretty low throughput of ~11KB/s when I would normally get >1MB/s.
iwpriv ra0 set PSMode=MAX_PSP
- MAX_PSP - maximum power saving
- CAM - seems to be normal
- FAST_PSP - ? untested, probably a medium value.
- The eeepc "Super Hybrid Engine" as it's known under windows has a significant effect on powersaving. This underclocks the FSB for powersave/overclocks for performance and can be controlled via /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/cpufv which is provided by eeepc_laptop. The following is a laptop-mode configuration for it that controls it automatically.
#! /bin/sh if [ x$SUPERHE_CONTROL_FILE = x ]; then SUPERHE_CONTROL_FILE=/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/cpufv fi if [ x$CONTROL_SUPERHE = x1 ]; then if [ $ON_AC -eq 1 ]; then if [ $ACTIVATE -eq 1 ]; then SUPERHE_VALUE="$LM_AC_SUPERHE" else SUPERHE_VALUE="$NOLM_AC_SUPERHE" fi else SUPERHE_VALUE="$BATT_SUPERHE" fi echo $SUPERHE_VALUE > $SUPERHE_CONTROL_FILE fi
# # Configuration file for Laptop Mode Tools module eee-superhe # # For more information, consult the laptop-mode.conf(8) manual page. # # Control FSB speed. Requires eeepc_laptop kernel module loaded. CONTROL_SUPERHE=1 # 2 is powersave # 1 is normal # 0 is performance BATT_SUPERHE=2 LM_AC_SUPERHE=0 NOLM_AC_SUPERHE=0 # If your system has the control file located at another point # configure it here # SUPERHE_CONTROL_FILE=
Install the acpi-eeepc-generic package from AUR (see AUR User Guidelines). You must install version 0.9 or greater, as previous versions do not have support for the 1000HE.
Use pm-suspend instead of the script in acpi-eeepc-generic. The acpi-eeepc-generic suspend script will cause the system to re-suspend when being woken up or when exiting X!
To substitute pm-suspend for the acpi sleep script, edit /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf and comment out the line that reads:
Replace it with:
To scale the CPU and possibly save a bit of power, you will want to set up cpufrequtils.
- pacman -Sy cpufrequtils
- Edit /etc/conf.d/cpufreq
min_freq="1000MHz" max_freq="1.67GHz"(or 1.60GHz if you have the Atom N270)
- modprobe acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave
- Add these modules listed above to the MODULES=() array in rc.conf
- /etc/rc.d/cpufreq start
- Add cpufreq to the DAEMONS=() array in rc.conf
WiFi should work out of the box with the stock kernel, but if you do have trouble, try upgrading the rt2860sta module by installing the rt2860 package.
If you still have difficulties associating with some networks, try installing the RT2860STA.DAT file into /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.DAT. You can find this file in the source tarball in the AUR's rt2860 package.
- If you are using the rt2860sta driver it might appear that the network doesn't work when using netcfg2 or iwconfig when the problem is really because the driver uses 'iwpriv' rather than 'iwconfig'. Wicd does however support this backend and works well as a network manager - source: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta#issues
To turn the bluetooth radio on/off:
# enable $ echo 1 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill1/state # disable $ echo 0 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill1/state
Install the bluez-utils and bluez-libs packages, then modprobe btusb.
Note: in the test repository bluez-utils and bluez-libs are merged into a single package, bluez.
See the Arch Linux Bluetooth and Bluetooth Mouse wiki pages for more information about configuring and using Bluetooth devices.
To enable/disable the camera:
# enable echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera # disable echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera
Make sure that the module uvcvideo is loaded
To record video and take photos, you may use cheese or the wxcam package.
To simply test the camera, you may use mplayer:
mplayer -fps 15 tv://
The webcam is reported to work with Skype.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
- lspci for another user produced "Network controller: RaLink RT2860" rather than the Atheros chipset in the output above
Laptop suspends while "waking up"
- Use pm-suspend instead of acpi script
If you have any other issues, make sure you are using kernel 2.6.29 or greater.


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One Direction Let QB Drew Brees Join the Band for a Can of Pepsi
A can of Pepsi was all New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees needed to give One Direction in order to become a member of the band! That's the true power of cola.
In this hilarious commercial, 1D and Brees, who formed 1DB in the previous teaser, are guests on the fictional 'The Next Night Show.' Cutie Harry Styles grabs the last can of Pepsi from the green room just as Brees is going for it.
Ut oh. It's a stand off.
"Come on kid, I'm Drew Brees," the Super Bowl winning MVP states.
Young Styles is not deterred. "And I'm Harry," he counters.
Brees is not a 13-year-old girl so he has no idea who Styles is. Therefore, the young British lad calls in reinforcements, aka the rest of 1D, who are the cover boys for the November issue of Seventeen.
It becomes a battle of who's bigger. Platinum album vs. a Super Bowl ring. A Billboard magazine cover vs. an MVP trophy. Screaming girls vs. testosterone-amped football fans. It's a dead heat on who is the bigger cultural force.
Niall Horan barters with Brees, offering him a role in the band if he just gives up the soft drink. It works, as the spot ends with Brees signing 'Live While We're Young' as the sixth member of 1D, while decidedly unable to carry a tune.
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Pentax K-01 and WG-2 GPS Available Now to U.S. Shoppers
Announced soon after CES 2012, the Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera and WG-2 GPS compact ship today to consumers in North America. The K-01 is most notable for a unique design with retro touches, a 16 meagapixel APS-C sensor and compatibility with Pentax K-mount lenses. It is introduced with a newly designed 40mm so-thin-it's-barely-there lens.
The Optio WG-2 GPS (and non-GPS enabled WG-2) is waterproof to 40 feet and freezeproof to 14 degrees Fahrenheit. It's an update to Pentax's WG-1, keeping the unique LED macro lights around the lens and updating the camera to 1080 HD video. The WG-2 GPS is offered at $399.95 and the WG-2 without GPS will cost $349.95. The Pentax K-01 body-only will retail for $749.95 body-only and $899.95 bundled with the 40mm kit lens.


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May 06, 2014
I live in Brooklyn, and this past weekend, at my local independent bookstore, where the titles that typically move are those written by the many novelists who live in the outer borough, front and center in the store window and on the checkout counter was the new, Bible-thick, nonfiction title Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by French economist Thomas Piketty. Capital, if you haven't heard, has been receiving a ridiculous amount of praise. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has called it the "book of the decade." Esquire has called it the "book of the century." And the Economist has called its author "a modern [Karl] Marx." And so, it came as little surprise when, after I asked the bearded clerk at the checkout counter how Capital had been selling, he told me: "We can't keep the thing in stock."
And apparently no one else can either. Capital is now No. 4 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list and among the top 30 best selling books in any genre on Amazon. As for what's inside Capital's more than 700 pages that has everyone so excited, Piketty does nothing less than tackle what President Obama recently called "the defining challenge of our time." That is, Piketty's book addresses rising income inequality throughout the world—why the so-called 1 percent now holds so much of the world's wealth and why the so-called 99 percent holds a pittance in comparison.
Here's how the Economist summarizes Capital's contents:
Mr Piketty, a pioneer in using tax statistics to measure inequality, painstakingly documents the evolution of income and wealth over the past 300 years, particularly in Europe and America. In doing so, he shows that the period from about 1914 to the 1970s was an historical outlier in which both income inequality and the stock of wealth ... fell dramatically. Since the 1970s both wealth and income gaps have been rising back towards their pre-20th-century norms.
[Piketty's] central claim is that the free-market system has a natural tendency towards increasing the concentration of wealth, because the rate of return on property and investments has consistently been higher than the rate of economic growth. Two world wars, the Depression and high taxes pushed down the return on wealth in the 20th century, while rapid productivity and population rises pushed up growth. But without such countervailing factors, Mr Piketty argues, higher returns on capital will concentrate wealth—especially when, as now, an ageing population means that growth should slow.
In other words, what Piketty's research shows (and he spent the past decade along with 20 other scholars researching this very topic) is that rising income inequality throughout the so-called free world might actually be the inevitable end result of capitalism. And all that equality that our parents and grandparents enjoyed after the Great Depression and two world wars was, in fact, merely an aberration (see the U-shaped graph below created by the New Yorker). And, further, if we don't make any drastic policy changes soon, income inequality will likely skyrocket and we'll be going not forward but backward, all the way to the 17th and 18th centuries, to the time of Jane Austen (Piketty actually tips his beret to Austen, among other canonical writers, in Capital), when the best chance you had of rising out of your meager circumstances was marrying rich, that is, back to the time when it actually didn't pay to "work."
Which brings me back to Krugman, who was among the first to sing Piketty's praises. Last month, Krugman wrote a Times column entitled "Wealth Over Work" in which he praised Piketty and Capital and discussed income inequality and how "the United States is slowly becoming an oligarchy where capitalism has been usurped by 'patrimonial capitalism,' in which the commanding heights of the economy are dominated not just by wealth, but also by inherited wealth, in which birth matters more than effort and talent." Krugman went to note that six of the 10 wealthiest Americans have inherited their wealth, not worked for it. (To give you a hint as to who those six are, their last names are either Koch or Walton.)
And, this month, Krugman reviewed Capital in the New York Review of Books. In that review, he pointed to something called "supersalaries," which I admit is a term I've never come across before but one I took to immediately (if only for the way all those Ss so delicately and musically roll off the tongue). In any case, here's Krugman on supersalaries:
… what we have seen in America and are starting to see elsewhere is something "radically new"—the rise of "supersalaries." … Capital still matters; at the very highest reaches of society, income from capital still exceeds income from wages, salaries, and bonuses. Piketty estimates that the increased inequality of capital income accounts for about a third of the overall rise in US inequality. But wage income at the top has also surged. Real wages for most US workers have increased little if at all since the early 1970s, but wages for the top one percent of earners have risen 165 percent, and wages for the top 0.1 percent have risen 362 percent.
What Piketty himself has to say about supersalaries is the following (paraphrased from a recent NPR interview with the French economist, who has a rather thick accent when speaking English so it's not always easy to make out each of his words, although it should perhaps be pointed out that his accent is rather pleasing to the ears; imagine a French, late-night radio host when reading the following):
You don't need to pay managers 100 or 200 times the average wage to make them work. When we look at the evidence, when we look at the growth performance of companies that pay their managers $10 million a year, you don't see any extra growth in their performance that some people say you get … Although you do need some inequality to provide incentive, beyond a certain point you don't get any extra performance.
Piketty goes on to say that there wouldn't be so much wrong with the exorbitant pay that senior managers (think Wall Street CEOs, tech firm CEOs, and hedge fund managers) make if U.S. GDP were rising quickly. But that's not the case. Piketty explains that since GDP is only rising at 1.5 percent annually, "if two-thirds or three-fourths of that growth goes to the wealthiest 1 percent, it isn't such a good deal for the rest of the population. But if growth were 3, 4, or 5 percent, you could make a case that [supersalaries] are worth it. But it's not worth it. It's not useful inequality. It's just excessive."
As for how to fix this problem, here's where Piketty's book has received a fair amount of criticism. His idea is to bring back a progressive income tax that was alive and well from about 1930 to 1980 in the U.S. He points out that the progressive income tax (where the richest 1 percent are taxed at very high rates—think more than 80 percent on their income) were invented by the United States and "didn't kill American capitalism."
Of course, it comes as no surprise that conservatives HATE this idea. But it perhaps comes as a slight surprise that even left-leaners don't think Piketty's solutions are so excellent either.
Still, most agree that Capital is a groundbreaking book, that what Piketty presents will change forever how we talk about wealth and inequality, that it will further the fury that the Occupy Movement started, that it will perhaps cause boards and senior managers to rethink the way they pay top performers, and that it will invigorate regulators of Wall Street. Not to mention that it is the must read of 2014 thus far.
And so, if you can afford to pay full price for Capital, you might want to run and not walk all the way to your local bookstore while supplies last.
As for me, the first edition hardcover—currently retailing for $39.95—is a little too rich for my non-blue blood. I'm waiting for the paperback.
Follow me @VaultFinance.
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Obama to Univision: My 'Biggest Failure' is Not Passing Immigration Reform
MIAMI – President Barack Obama said the "biggest failure" of his presidency is not passing immigration reform, while blaming his failure on Washington which he said cannot be changed "from the inside," the president said in a Spanish-language Univision forum Wednesday.
"My biggest failure so far is we haven't gotten comprehensive immigration reform done," Obama said. "But it's not because for lack of trying or desire, and I'm confident we are going to accomplish that."
The president faced tough questions on why he hadn't accomplished comprehensive immigration reform, an important issue for Hispanic voters. Jorge Ramos, one of the moderators for Univision, put it bluntly: "You promised that and a promise is a promise and with all due respect, you didn't keep that promise."
Obama said on Univision that he accepted responsibility but that he faced an economy "on the verge of collapse" in his first year and blamed Republicans for abandoning support for comprehensive immigration reform.
"What I confess I did not expect, and so I'm happy to take responsibility for being naive here, is that Republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform, my opponent in 2008 who had been a champion of it and who attended these meetings, suddenly would walk away," he said. "That's what I did not anticipate."
Obama said he only leads the executive branch.
"We have to have cooperation from all these sources to get something done," he said.
Shortly after he spoke, the Republican National Committee sent emails blasting the president for pandering to Latino voters for changing his story to say that his biggest failure was the lack of an immigration reform bill.
The e-mail highlighted four past statements the president made to media outlets, including an interview with CBS in July where he said his biggest mistake was putting policy over storytelling.
"When I think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well," the president said to CBS, "the mistake of my first term - couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."
"...All we heard was more excuses on the devastating effects the Obama Administration's policies have had on the Hispanic community, and yet he offered no plan for the future," the Republicans said in an e-mail to reporters. "He declared that "you can't change Washington from the inside" despite saying that he was running to change it."
In the Univision forum, Obama continued to lay blame on the inability to get Republican cooperation.
"We initiated the meetings...and what we could not get was a single Republican, including the 20 who had previously voted to support comprehensive immigration reform, to step up," he said.
He also said there was "the thinking that the president is somebody who is all-powerful and can get everything done."
Obama also said he was disappointed he hasn't been able to change the tone in Washington from the inside, and he said that American voters have to mobilize and put pressure on Congress for real change.
"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside," he said. "That's how I got elected, and that's how the big accomplishments like Health Care got done because we were able to mobilize the American people to speak out."
The forum gave Obama a rebuttal of sorts. Romney spoke Wednesday at the Univision forum, where he said his campaign was about "the 100 percent in America."
Obama said rival Mitt Romney hasn't "gotten around a lot" if he believes that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves victims and entitled to government help.
Obama explained the country has gone through a challenging time and that people "want a hand up and not a handout."
In suggesting his GOP rival was out of touch, Obama was reacting to secretly taped remarks by Romney in which the Republican declared that the 47 percent of voters who support Obama represent Americans who don't pay income taxes and "who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them."
Obama said Americans pay payroll taxes, gas taxes and state and sales taxes. He noted that those who don't pay income taxes include workers who don't make enough money to qualify, older Americans and students.
"When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven't gotten around a lot," Obama said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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