I had a Dell Latitude D820, brand new, with Vista (immediately after
Vista Launch). I used it mostly plugged in for maybe 6 months or so,
then I discovered the sleep feature. I liked it and I started to use
it for everything. Maybe 5 to 10 cycles per day. Result -> a 9 cell
battery went down the dr
On 6/22/11 10:28 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote:
> I don't know the battery type MacBooks use,
Lithium-Ion.
> but these are true for a
> Lithium-Ion battery:
>
> http://www.marco.org/2009/09/24/laptop-battery-myths
> http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batt
> eries
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On 6/22/11 2:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote:
> The battery has a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. Each
> Standby will
On 6/22/11 2:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote:
> The battery has a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. Each Standby
> will consume one cycle, so if you do this often, the battery life time is
> pretty short. Been there, done that. I managed to kill a battery in less
> than 6 months. The next one
On 6/22/2011 5:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote:
> The battery has a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. Each Standby
> will consume one cycle, so if you do this often, the battery life time is
> pretty short. Been there, done that. I managed to kill a battery in less
> than 6 months. The next o
.
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And you're choosing hibernation over StandBy be
>> And you're choosing hibernation over StandBy because StandBy still uses
>> power?<<
Yes, I prefer a full battery when I arrive at a customer site.
Rick
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Well, I found the problem. Turns out it was one of the extensions, FoxTab.
Once uninstalled, things were fine.
Joel
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Why wouldn't you if you don't know how long you're going to be "offline"?
If you only had a few minutes of battery left, who knows how long that
would last in stand-by, probably not over a weekend.
Fred
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On 6/22/2011 1:15 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
>>> The only other times it's been rebooted was when I've had to move my
>>> cube/office to a new location.<<
>
> Even when I move my laptop to visit a customer or go away for the weekend, I
> hibernate it. I hibernate because I don't
> want to restart a
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Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox 5.0 gone black?
Even my XP box at work has only needed to be rebooted for Windows Updates.
The only other times it's been rebooted was when I've had to move my
cube/office to a new location.
Fred
On Wed, Ju
Even my XP box at work has only needed to be rebooted for Windows Updates.
The only other times it's been rebooted was when I've had to move my
cube/office to a new location.
Fred
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Rick Schummer <
pro...@whitelightcomputing.com> wrote:
> >> I've always had to re
>> I've always had to reboot Windows way too often, no matter what
>> application(s) I'm using heavily. This is still the
case with Windows 7.<<
I must be one of the lucky ones or live a clean lifestyle. I reboot my Windows
7 Pro machine maybe once a month, maybe
once every six weeks. My Vista b
On 6/22/11 7:34 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> So Paul you must have something incorrectly installed, or the virtual
> environment that you are using is getting in the way of Win (version
> here) working properly. I know that when I tried to run Win7 under
> Ubuntu is sucked so bad that I just dropp
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:34 -0500, "Stephen Russell"
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> > On 6/21/11 4:59 PM, Michael Madigan wrote:
> >> Both chrome and firefox seem to be causing me to do complete reboots way
> >> too often. Very frustrating as the speed increases
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> On 6/21/11 4:59 PM, Michael Madigan wrote:
>> Both chrome and firefox seem to be causing me to do complete reboots way too
>> often. Very frustrating as the speed increases are getting negated by the
>> reboots.
>
> I've always had to reboot
On 6/21/11 4:59 PM, Michael Madigan wrote:
> Both chrome and firefox seem to be causing me to do complete reboots way too
> often. Very frustrating as the speed increases are getting negated by the
> reboots.
I've always had to reboot Windows way too often, no matter what application(s)
I'm
u
"Works fine for me." Sorry. Also Win7Pro, 64-bit.
Try disabling your plugins and see if that fixes the problems. It's
likely something doesn't play well with version five-dot-oh. There's
an option "Restart with add-ons disabled" under the Help menu.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Joel N. Fisc
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote:
> Well, it stripped it. I didn't remember one way or the other. In any case,
> here's the photo in question:
>
> http://users.rcn.com/petrukio/BlackFirefox.jpg
You need to open up some work work spaces.
--
Stephen Russe
Both chrome and firefox seem to be causing me to do complete reboots way too
often. Very frustrating as the speed increases are getting negated by the
reboots.
--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Stephen Russell wrote:
> From: Stephen Russell
> Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox 5.0 gone black?
> To
Well, it stripped it. I didn't remember one way or the other. In any case,
here's the photo in question:
http://users.rcn.com/petrukio/BlackFirefox.jpg
Joel
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote:
> Heya,
>
> So, most of you probably know that Mozilla Firefox 5.0 was released today.
> I downloaded and installed it... and I have issues. After the first couple
> of Control-Tab's (or even just selecting a different tab with the mouse),
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