Wicked simple networking with Wicd
I'm travelling this weekend, which means I inevitably will end up putting my laptop's battery through its paces. Every so often when I travel, I try to find more and more ways to squeeze more minutes out of my ThinkPad.
My favorite way to extend battery life is to kill services that I either don't need, or are more bloated than my needs, such as the infamous NetworkManager stack.
For what it does, NetworkManager is really an impressive piece of software, from user-land, you can configure Ethernet, Wireless, PPPoE, Mobile Broadband, VPN connections and more. For me, this is unnecessary, at any given moment I only have access to a wired and/or a wireless connection.
So I kicked NetworkManager to the curb
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