leaking pen wrote: > my laptop coming back from a hibernate function, 2 gigs of ram, takes > about twice as long as the initial boot. i dont use hibernate > anymore, i just shutdown and then restart.
Well, *when it works*, it is fast. That's my point. It seems to work okay with Windows Vista. I have not tried XP. > and, nothing ever works right after coming back from hibernate. This has been the story of virtual memory for 50 years. It is a great idea that has seldom worked well. There are many technologies that never live up to their promise, but which people hang on to for decades. In aviation, a classic example that lasted for years was contra-rotating propellers. The U.S. prototypes had a bad habit of disintegrating in midair. As far as I know the Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bomber is the only model that went into production. It makes a terrific noise. Here is a funny blog note about that: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/put-the-cold-war-back-on-ice-and-get-those-skies-growling-with-booming-russian-bears-1073110.html QUOTE: ". . . But the most awesome thing about the Tupolev is the noise of its four engines, driving eight contra-rotating props, each of which is the size of a large house: it sounds, I'm told, like a flying Vesuvius. And I yearn -- yearn: do you hear me? yearn to hear a Tu-95 overhead. So I draw the attention of the Russian military attache to the presence of a US missile battery in my back garden, just outside Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. I suggest you send a Tu-95 to investigate, at around noon tomorrow. My house is the one with six dogs in the yard. Tell the pilot to waggle his wings when he sees me wave." - Jed
