Battery performance improvement with powertop and using xidel.

2012-12-24 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in those would improve the life to quite an extent. Here is the description of powertop:

PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that makeyour computer use more power than necessary while it is idle.

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xmlwf – Is your xml document well formed?

2012-02-18 1 min read Bash

There is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed.

sudo yum install expat

Once installed, simply use :

xmlwf

Need more details, just check the man page 🙂

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Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

2010-05-06 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂

Problem:
On running

afraid-dyndns

I was getting the error:

Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div

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