I’m potentially interested in buying the Zalman ZM-NC2000 to cool my laptop. Does anyone have this laptop cooler ? If so could you please do me a big favor and do some measurements for me ?

I would like to know the two distances which I illustrated in the picture (the red distance and the yellow distance). The red distance is important because I want to know whether the air can blow directly into the air intake for my cpu. I need an exact measurement for this because the ZM-NC1000 was too small for this.The yellow distance is important because I don’t want too much air to escape at the sides. Exact measurements are also important because I need to convert it to the metric system.

Thank you very much in advance!

Hardy Heron is about to be released (within 24 hours).

I’ve tested Hardy Heron’s release candidate. Some nice and new features :

• it’s a LTS release which means 3 years of updates on the desktop (5 for the server) which makes it very suitable for schools and some companies
• smarter and faster copying of files in nautilus
• the newest kernel (2.6.24)
• PulseAudio
• Xorg 7.3
• Firefox 3.0 b5 as default webbrowser
• improved memory protection
• and more

Some bugs :

Great news! The Dutch government committed to use Open Standards. With equal suitability Free Software (as in FLOSS) is to be preferred above Non-Free Software.

From Dutch Government and Parliament: Open standards in 2008 :

I’m very sorry! I don’t want to spam planet.ubuntu.com

I just discovered this : if I edit an old post the timestamp in the rss feed gets updated and bumps my post to the top of planet.ubuntu.com. I use wordpress.com so I can’t edit the source code. I thought this just happened with my latest post but apparently it happens with al my posts. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this ? In the meantime I won’t be editting posts.

The last post I made regarding the harddrive problem is : Ubuntu is NOT causing aggressive power management

Ubuntu is NOT causing aggressive power management settings!

The following things might instead cause aggressive power management settings :

People on the ubuntuforums are worrying about this problem because quite some people seem to be suffering from it. Just do a search for Load_Cycle_Count on the ubuntuforums. Here are some threads as an example :