On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Nima Azarbayjany <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I see what you meant by turning off the tea kettle. It was an > interesting joke and I am sorry that I did not realize what you meant > initially. I thought at first that the tea kettle might be a script or that > kind of thing which does something during hibernation or resume so I wanted > to know how to turn if off! :)
Good one.. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and maybe if you have more time http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html and then maybe more on topposting, Xposting etc... Having changed four laptops and been mostly a mute spectator on this list I can say that the people on this list are helpfull, just that one needs to do some homework. And if you get a solution for the sound, do post here :-) > > Anyway, I am really not concerned with the noise if it does not signal > something's going wrong inside my laptop. I mean, if it cannot damage the > hardware then that's alright. I cannot figure out how to give you more > information because I don't know how to tell where is the noise coming from > precisely. I will try to make the process as much verbose as is possible > then I might be able to see what happens that makes the noise. > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:51 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: >> > I surely know what a tea kettle is, I just do not know what Frank >> > meant by saying turn off the tea kettle is his email. >> >> It was just a joke. I mean that you can't expect other readers to guess >> where that noise came from... why not the kettle near your computer ;-) >> >> Noisy network adapter are common nowadays, especially when transfering >> data large amount of data over the network. I have never investigated >> that fact. >> >> > It did not make sense to me. >> >> You probably wondered what I meant... I also wondered what could >> possibly be your problem. >> >> > I am really not fluent in idiomatic English. >> >> > I am new in seeking help from mailing lists, so I may make mistakes >> > and may not follow the rules correctly until I learn enough. Can you >> > please be clear? >> >> We all want to learn, you are welcome here. >> >> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gerard Robin <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:34:17PM +0330, Nima Azarbayjany >> > wrote: >> > From: Nima Azarbayjany >> > <[email protected]> >> > To: Frank Lin PIAT <[email protected]>, >> > SmartList <[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: hibernation with new kernels >> > I am sorry, I do not know what the tea kettle is. >> > >> > Turn off the tea kettle. >> > dict kettle gives: >> > >From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English >> > v.0.48 [gcide]: >> > >> > Kettle \Ket"tle\ (k[e^]t"t'l), n. [OE. ketel; cf. AS. cetel, >> >> Regarding the the hibernation speed, If I remember correctly there were >> a few kernel around 2.6.22 which were slower *on my laptop*, then around >> 2.6.26 if got faster again. YMMV >> >> Franklin >> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
