I was playing with the idea to review notebooks because I come in contact with lots notebooks. but what to do with them. I read lots of reviews….look at pictures and youtube vidoes. That is the one problem and the other one I can’t Install Gentoo on them and use them for a day/week. I am stuck with a LiveCD.

So my first review is probably going to be on my own notebook, which I firstly need to test the benchmarking of a live environment against a installed environment. And I decided on using Ubuntu’s LiveCD, because most users will feel at home with Ubuntu, and most Gentoo LiveCD are basic, no GUI.

Next issue with what can I benchmark these machines. With a LiveCD I can’t fine tune it, getting the graphics performing, etc. While search the internets I came across a few options. but chose blender for my performance tests. for OS/hardware, if Ubuntu can get it working without my help is awesome. if not I will explain why and hopefully what to do to get it working. And the Final test, I am going to write the post with the notebook, that will give me a overview of the keyboard, screen, etc.

I will probably find a few problems with my new “technique” and improvise as I progress.

The Blender Samples I am using , I got of the Internet, I know nothing of blender, only that it is power hungry. The first is a bunch of block put to together. second one is 3 big blocks with a big shiny red ball… and lastly a bambo forest. that one is big. If you want them I will supply you with them.

Kevin.

I getting allot of comment spam lately.

And just enjoyed this one.

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Thanks for your various information, your blog  is not like all the other spammy and poorly written blogs. you got a bookmark from me!
 
Seymour Byan

and then this nic linking back to some fake shoe selling website.

O.o Spammy

With my conky setup, sudo was polluting my /var/log/messages.
with useless open session and close session notifications.

Jun 17 19:29:38 durendal sudo: kevinc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/kevinc ; USER=root ; COMMAND=wireless
Jun 17 19:29:38 durendal sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jun 17 19:29:38 durendal sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jun 17 19:29:39 durendal sudo: kevinc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/kevinc ; USER=root ; COMMAND=wireless
Jun 17 19:29:39 durendal sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jun 17 19:29:39 durendal sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jun 17 19:29:40 durendal sudo: kevinc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/kevinc ; USER=root ; COMMAND=wireless

firstly change the /etc/sudoers file. Tell sudo to log to a different file, and stop logging in messages.
remember to access the file you will need to run visudo in root.

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# Defaults specification
Defaults logfile=/var/log/sudo.log
Defaults !syslog

Then I created a log rotate file.

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/var/log/sudo.log {
        missingok
        notifyempty
        compress
}

its worked…. almost if your sudo like mine has pam module build-in. there will still be logging in syslog.
simply comment out everything in /etc/pam.d/sudo.

and you have removed sudo from messages. and redirected it to /var/log/sudo.

Me, my Brother and a friend went out to go watch the new Leon Schuster “Leon Schusters Schuks Tshabalalas Survival Guide to South Africa”. Was a good laugh.

Then drove around got thirsty and bought Coffee(The Best Kind).

Burned everything and went to sleep.