The laptop should generally not act differently depending whether
there is external power. Too many people seem to be assuming that any
form of external power is "AC power" (i.e. a national power grid).
In the presence of limited external power, e.g. a car battery, a human
powered charger, a sola
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:57 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:01 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > When we are suspended, and the battery wakes us up because it is
> > "low",
> > then:
> > For now, graceful shutdown after journal has been notified
> > May do hibernat
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 15/08/07, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things
> > cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions?
>
> Sorry for getting to the conversatio
Walter Bender wrote:
> Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good
> points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon
> as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can
> ask you to hold on a second until I finish. Let's take advanta
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:01 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> When we are suspended, and the battery wakes us up because it is
> "low",
> then:
> For now, graceful shutdown after journal has been notified
> May do hibernation if enough flash is available.
I guess what we want here is to
On 15/08/07, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things
> cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions?
Sorry for getting to the conversation late, it's been a busy week.
> Actions that OHM should do:
>
> o
Hello,
On 8/17/07, Don Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think just writing the code is a
> good antidote to engaging in the arguments in the first place. If the
> functionality is straightforward and easy to implement then just do it
> rather than argue about it.
Hence my suggestion in the
You have to remember that the kids using these machines might not yet
know how to read, so just popping up a notice with a paragraph
explaining the situation and Yes/No buttons isn't an ideal solution.
-Don
http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry_id=20005
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?
Hello,
On 8/17/07, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good
> points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon
> as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can
> ask you to hold on a s
Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good
points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon
as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can
ask you to hold on a second until I finish. Let's take advantage of
the fact that the kids
Jim Gettys wrote:
...
>> There seems to be no way to manually adjust the backlight level in
>> ebook mode. What would be the policy for it? Leave it on all the time
>> or dim down after some idle time? Also CPU (and wireless?) should go
>> to suspend for most of time in ebook mode?
>>
>
> We h
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:23 +0800, Yuan Chao wrote:
>
> > o On momentary power button:
> > turn off screen, suspend machine, leave keyboard and wireless on;
> > keyboard/touchpad will cause instant on again.
> I'm curious here that I thought the wireless needs CPU to work with.
> Why suspend th
On 8/16/07, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things
> cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions?
I'm not an expert here, but I'd like to share some ideas. How about
sorting these events into catagories
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:01:47PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things
> cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions?
>
> Actions that OHM should do:
>
> o On momentary power button:
> turn off screen, suspend
Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things
cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions?
Actions that OHM should do:
o On momentary power button:
turn off screen, suspend machine, leave keyboard and wireless on;
keyboard/touchpad will cause ins
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