----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergey Mkrtchyan" <physwalker@gmail.com> To: <opensuse@opensuse.org> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] hard drive pause when moving a laptop
On Thursday 28 August 2008 12:06:32 pm Brian K. White wrote:
It's there to ward against the day you drop your laptop, or I suppose the day you use it to bash over the head of a mugger. By the time it hits the floor (by the time it moves even 1cm toward the floor, or the muggers head) the head should be parked and because of that, most likely even if the laptop is destroyed the drive will still work in some other laptop or in a usb drive enclosure so you don't lose any data. (unless the mugger wasn't fazed and ran off with your laptop.)
I don't know if there is a linux answer for the feature (perhaps an acpi event ?)
Nice to know. Thanks a lot. Well the laptop will be probably the last thing I'd like to bash over the head of the mugger ;-)
It's a Thinkpad, you can probably hammer nails with it. Then again... It's a Thinkpad, it was so expensive you probably want to encase it in thick foam with silk lining and guarded by a large dog every time you turn it off. I know I always lay the little microfiber cloth that came with my Vaio TZ over the keys before closing the lid. Which I never bothered to do before, despite the fact that that last/extra 5% of convenience was the main reason I even paid so much for this particular machine instead of getting a Dell m1330. (that and the fact that I could go to the store and play with a TZ but I couldn't find an m1330 anywhere) wow I went from OT to OOT. If I could somehow work in something about web comics it could be OT, OOT, OOTS! -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org