My Fedora Core 6 Tutorial didn’t work with 7,
so here’s the setup for Fedora 7.
System Summary
Dell Latitude C400 Notebook
866 MHz Pentium III (M)
512MB Sodimm PC133
100GB Hard Drive
Dell TrueMobile 1350 mini-pci card
Ethernet LAN used during install
Dual Boot:
Windows XP Professional (Dell’s Default)
Fedora 7
Start at the beginning with my exhaustive installation summary, or
Skip to the wireless section of the tutorial.
No disclaimers this time: If you have the same hardware, It will work.
Place the following text in a file called .vimrc in your home directory:
:set number
:set shiftwidth=2
:set autoindent
:set smartindent
:set expandtab
What’s going on?
- number shows line numbers
- shiftwidth sets the size of the tabs — I prefer 2 others maybe 3 or 4 — Default is a ridiculous 8!
- autoindent indents to the same column of the previous line.
- smartindent automatically inserts “shiftwidth” spaces after typing a “{” and hitting return. It will also match up the ending “}” with it’s starting “{”.
- expandtab ensures that all tab characters inserted/autoinserted are replaced by “shiftwidth” spaces instead.
This only works in vim, not vi but most of you are using vim anyway even if you think you are using vi.
Ever notice that when using vi/vim in PuTTY, the number pad screws everything up and just plain doesn’t work? Thanks to this two year old forum post, I won’t be dealing with that again (thanks Renegade Muskrat).
In the settings go to Terminal/Features and check the box “Disable Application Keypad Mode”.
That’s it. Be sure that you save this option in your saved profile for each connection where you will be using vi.
Q: What is vi? What is Putty?
A: They are Gerbils native to Cambodia.
I’m switching to WordPress from Movable Type. It wasn’t that big of a deal, but the transfer of my MT blog to a new system has failed. I’ll take this opportunity to check out this competing blog suite. So far I have to say I’m quite impressed.
My old blog was only 5 posts ‘old’ and I only want to keep two of them so my previous posts here were a redo of those two surviving posts, followed by more content in the next week or so…
At the time of writing this, the e6600 ($225) Core 2 Duo processor has become a very popular chip for it’s performance/price ratio, edging AMD’s offerings even without overclocking. Adding to the buzz on these chips is that they are clocked rather low and overclock beautifully. The mod in this tutorial uses a cheaper e4300 ($125) and makes it work by default at the same speed as the e6600. It’s a modification that requires a little patience, a tube of defogger paint or a conductive silver pen, and a complete disregard for your hardware warrany(not true). The bsel strap method just tricks the motherboard into thinking it is working with an 1066 MHz fsb(266MHz) processor instead of it’s actual 800MHz (200MHz), effectively upping the timing from 1.8GHz to 2.4GHz. This has been very effective in my case, because I’m using a cheap ECS motherboard that came essentially free with the processor. My combo was the e4300 with an ECS P4M800Pro-M v2.0 for $99. Six weeks later that still kills any current deals, but not for long once the new generation of core 2’s come out. This strap method makes overclocking efforts begin at 2.4GHz instead of at 1.8 so you can bring it much higher. Without this mod, on this board I couldn’t get any higher than 220MHz (a 10% overclock). Now I’m starting out with a 33% overclock and it’s very stable, but a little on the warm side.
View my tutorial here…
I still have several questions to pose for anyone interested:
- Which set of temps is the most accurate: TAT, Speedfan, or Core Temp?
- Does the 1333 strap work with this processor?
- Can this be done to other processors, i.e. Pentium D and P4 800MHz processors?
Here’s an overview of my setup:
·Dell Latitude C400 Notebook
·866 MHz Pentium III (M)
·512MB Sodimm PC133
·100GB Hard Drive
·Dell TrueMobile 1350 mini-pci card
·Ethernet LAN used during install
·Dual Boot:
·Windows XP Professional (Dell’s Default)
·Fedora Core 6
Why bother? That system is WEAK!
I am not a gamer. I just want to be able to write programs, surf the internet, and work with word processing and spreadsheets. This computer does all of that just fine. It cost just over $200 on eBay. It weighs only 3 lbs!
Find my tutorial here…
Disclaimer: I wrote the tutorial after much unmentioned error-ridden tweaking with the system and really mostly after-the-fact. I might have put things out of order and skipped things. I will probably rebuild from scratch using my tutorial to perfect it.
