On 2007-01-22, Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (One of our concerns at work was heat from CRTs (perhaps bizarrely,
> given that we're in south west London, but we really had been in an
> office where heat was a significant problem, though we aren't, now).)

[And speaking of heat and power consumption, the state of software
suspend in Linux totally sucks, and yet it's one of the most important
features I can think of. It sucks having to leave the computer
on when you don't use it, because it's such a _chore_ to bring it 
and all the programs up again, especially as session management support
sucks too (and there's no protocol it for terminal programs). The 
hardware suspend support of desktop mobos also tends to be poor, PSU fan
still keeping humming and so on. (And I haven't heard of that good
things of the Linux laptop support either.) That's one very good reason
to use Windows: hibernate. Of course, even better would be if the computer
could run on _really_ low power, shutting down all the fans, not using 
the disks except very infrequently, and so on, but still react to ssh 
connection attempts etc. ...). Well, at least with 'athcool' I managed
to make the system run 10C cooler most of the time.]

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Tuomo

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