On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:57:35AM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the > > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of > > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill > > the computer is to let the battery run out, then let the > > laptop alone for a couple of months until the battery > > runs so low even "hibernate" dies (it does eventually, > > on my T420). > > > Runn Awayy! I hated laptops thinking for them selves and > going to sleep when I wanted to work, this happened in > windows. Fact is the solution is sound and has been in > use for ages as a so called screen saver. Where the use > input devices where monitored for inactivity, not if NSP > was going to cut the power due to lack of payments or some > other god like force(including small children).
That's not what I am talking about; I am talking about running _out_ of power, which means your laptop will stop being useful in the next 5 seconds. What is smarter, the laptop shutting down properly and/or hibernating, or just switching off to the risk of losing data? Apparently you prefer the second, I don't. > Firstly laptops are more likely to loose power due to > spending most of there 'useful' lives unplugged. It's > much more likely for a battery to die than any of the > events mention in my first paragraph. You didn't read what I wrote. > YES, I'd like my laptop to be useful up until the vary > moment that electron movement cannot sustain it any > longer. It should be as if it where to be used in times > of war %199 availability. I agree. I don't want my laptop to go to sleep just because I stop typing either. /Y -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
