-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-05-17 at 13:14 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-05-17 at 12:38 -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
minutes of power. Just enough time to save the files, close the apps, and shutdown. Though probably hiberating/suspend-to-disk is more cost effective.
Yes, it is possible to have a machine hibernate automatically when power fails, which is much better than powering off: there is no lost data, and the machine recovers very fast, all services and programs active. Only network connections suffer, and not always.
But this configuration is not enabled by default.
Not only is it not enabled by default, its not even available in many machines. Most laptops have this ability because they have built in battery monitoring.
And I have to point out for those singing the prises of UPSs, that you are very little better off with a UPS that does not have monitoring. You ride out the short disconnects but you crash just as hard when the batteries eventually die.
Obviously! That is what I use. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoQdHYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XUhQCeIQFOeRbIilbo+TFTdGkFM70t FrkAoIqKG104yAKvE915ddiCyxgGNErT =wLTb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org