Sheep without Muzzle

I started posting links to the books I recently enjoyed reading. Each link has a short description of how I came across the book and what I thought of it. I got the idea from Kyle.

Monitors eat up lots of power. To save it, tell the monitor to shut off after one minute of inactivity by

1. Adding this line to Section “Monitor” in xorg.conf:

           Option "DPMS" "True"

2. Adding this section to xorg.conf:

   Section "ServerFlags"
           Option "OffTime" "1"     # turn off after 1 minute
   EndSection

If you are watching a long movie, disable power management using:

$ xset -dpms

Then enable power management again when you’re done, use:

$ xset dpms 0 0 60

Fore more information, see the manpages:

$ man xorg.conf
$ man xset

Visit Powertop for useful tips on saving power.

According to World Religions, a Historical Approach, the political ascendancy of a new middle class of farmers and merchants in China happened in the VIII century BCE (p.104). Take that, West!

The same book states that the Chinese government officials applied the Taoist principles of nonaction in as early as the III century BCE (p.113). Did you think Adam Smith invented laissez-faire?

The author is probably bias, but I can understand it. Taoism is an appealing philosophical system.