On 26 Jan 2007 at 6:47, Phil Daley wrote: > At 1/26/2007 04:23 AM, Ken Moore wrote: > > >"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I don't understand why Apple has mostly managed to > >> make hibernation work (there have been reported > >> problems with wireless networking not waking up), > >> and PC makers seem not to have been able to do so. I > >> urge all my clients to *not* use hibernation, > >> because it simply causes too many problems with > >> peripherals that don't seem to know to wake up along > >> with the CPU. This is particularly bad with USB > >> devices, it seems to me, as well as wireless > >> networking devices. I simply don't think PC > >> hibernation is reliable enough to be of any use, and > >> turn it off on all PCs that I am responsible for. > > > >Hibernation doesn't cause me any peripheral problems, > >AFAICS, with the possible (certainly not every time) > >exception of a wireless comms card, and Finale is > >the only program that seems to be affected by it. > >I don't recall any problems with the USB devices.
Finale shouldn't know anything about hardware issues, so the fact that it has a problem is an indictment of the OS and the underlying hardware. > >The function is presumably provided by the maker, not > >by Microsoft. My laptop is a HP pavilion 4500, and > >hibernation is provided by a convenient, blue-lit > >button. > > That is probably because you are running WinXP and David recommends > Win2K Not really true any more. I *run* Win2K (as do a couple of my clients who couldn't stand WinXP, or the myriad problems it caused them), but most of my clients have WinXP. They have hibernation problems. But that's really not the point. I had a Zenith laptop that I could close the lid and open it without any problems of any kind back in 1993. I haven't seen a laptop (or desktop) with that ease of use and reliability since. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
