Archive for May, 2007

(Not) Exploring Edinburgh on a single day

Tuesday, 8th of May 2007

My wife and I had a lot of plans for our first visit in Edinburgh. We wanted to visit the castle, walk down the Royal Mile, climb on Arthur’s Seat and do many more things. But there is an old saying that no battle plans survive first contact with the enemy. The enemy in this [...]

The Ten Hill Place Hotel

Monday, 7th of May 2007

After an uneventful journey with easyJet from London Stansted my wife and I arrived in Edinburgh early in the afternoon. We took the Airlink 100 bus service from the aiport into the city centre. During the bus ride we enjoyed the view on the interesting mix of old and new architecture in the outskirts of [...]

Enjoy the Slowness

Tuesday, 1st of May 2007

While exploring new features in NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 I found out that the Enhanced SpeedStep support now works with my server’s Pentium M 760 CPU. The kernel is able to clock the CPU from 2GHz down to 800MHz. After a few succesful manual experiments I installed the estd package. It provides the Enhanced SpeedStep & PowerNow [...]