Paul Jobson pjobson

m720q Setup with an i7-8700 65W

I had trouble getting my i7-8700 65W to work in my m720q with a 65W PSU. It was working fine in Windows, but was throttling down first to 20 Watt, then to 15, 10, and finally to 7 Watt, which resulted in a maximum clock speed of 800 MHz.

The main problem seems to be a mix of crappy firmware settings from Lenovo/Intel (Reddit Post) and the weak power supply.

To fix this problem, we have to install some tools, and for them to work, you have to make sure that secure boot is OFF; otherwise, the kernel doesn't allow you to set the CPU power limits. The easiest way is to install in legacy mode; therefore, you need to disable secure boot and enable CSM in the BIOS, select legacy boot preferred.

Slackware 15 on a Pentium 133 MHz (32MB of RAM)

PBD example
Slackware running (video)

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8

Intentionally break your map canvas using the resize container button, then fix it again using the fix map button. This little demo is designed to show off how Mapbox GL JS's map.resize() method can fix a squished or stretched map canvas by telling the map to 1) check the size of its container, then 2) trigger a re-render. This method is useful for applications where the map's container might be resized interactively through a sliding, expanding, contracting, or interactively hidden HTML element.

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

On Mac OS (host):

Shutdown your VM and do:

VirtualBox > Settings > Network > Add (you will get vboxnet0)

On a terminal ifconfig will show you new interface vboxnet0

VM's Settings > System > check "Enable I/O APIC." VM's Settings > Network > Adapter 2 > host-only vboxnet0

	1
	00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,500
	Welcome to the Example Subtitle File!

	2
	00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000
	This is a demonstration of SRT subtitles.

	3
	00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,500

	for f in /usr/share/figlet/*
	do
	fs=$(basename $f)
	fname=${fs%%.tlf}
	toilet -f $fname $fname
	done

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	"use strict";
	function constEnumPropValueDesc(v){
	return {
	value: v,
	enumerable: true,
	configurable: false,
	writable: false
	};

	(function(global){

	"use strict";
	function constEnumPropValueDesc(v){
	return {
	value: v,
	enumerable: true,
	configurable: false,
	writable: false
	};