Current Mood: tired

So when I first got my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000), I had Fedora for awhile and of course quickly went to Ubuntu.  For the longest time, I didn’t hear the clicking sound coming from it that Whitepaws insisted it was making.   Finally I heard it when it progressed to an annoying and contestant squeaking.

After doing some research on this, I learned that it was likely a hard drive syncing.  Its supposed to be some sort of feature for laptops to help save data in case of dropping the laptop or… something like that.  I don’t remember anymore.  There is a big hush-hush about it, and when you do hear about it there is two schools of thought about it: It’s a problem and its not a problem.

I decided to say that its a problem because the sound certainly didn’t start out like that and anything is a problem when it gets worse and its annoying as fuck.  Soooo special thanks to my ex for sending me a link (need to get it again, will get it later) that has the solution.

After booting up, in terminal, stick this in:

sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda

… and that’s it.  Problem solved.  Blessed silence.

Friday I discovered that my printer (an HP Photosmart) works right out of the box, like a charm.  Victory is delicious.

This will likely be it for my little Fixing Hardy Heron series.  I will be reinstalling my Never Winter Nights but I didn’t have much problems with it last time… so yay!