WordPress’ killer app

The ability to import posts and comments from other blogs is what sets WordPress apart from Blogger
But does it get images, too?
The ability to bring in all my old Blogger posts … and maybe my Movable Type ones, too, would be huge.
I’ll check into the images situation.
You can also export a WordPress blog as XML. [...]

I conquer the fan

I finally did get my fan under control in Puppy Linux. It involved modprobe commands for both the fan and thermal modules (I configured them to start on boot) and getting a cron job running to check CPU temperature at 5-minute intervals and turn the fan on or off depending on temperature.
I’m working on writing [...]

The modprobe squad

During Debian Etch’s boot sequence, I noticed a couple of things happening while the ACPI modules were loading.
Two words flashed by:
Fan
Thermal
Could these be the key to my problems with the Gateway Solo 1450’s noisy, always-on fan with distros that are NOT Debian Etch, Ubuntu (WITHOUT the latest kernel) and CentOS 5?
What if I opened a [...]