Along the same lines, there's no such thing as a perfect battery. It might go on the fritz, maybe it's too old to keep that 36-hour charge anymore... Or, even more likely for some people making custom rigs, your main pack might get disconnected. The design I thought up for that just has a smaller battery pack to get enough standby power to save the system. Since I've been able to suspend to disk under linux for a while now (at least in my ages-old Acer laptop, the libretto's a tad more finicky depending on the phase of the moon), I've always kept it in mind for wearable design. CK On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Paul Saitta wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Doug Sutherland wrote: > <snip> > > mobile battery life enough to make this realistic (never shut > > down the wearable). If OTOH I still end up shutting down on a > > regular basis, I may explore this suspend to swap feature. > > I agree with you about not shutting the system down, ever -- this is a > very good thing, and very much my preference too. Although it is a lot of > disk to use for a single feature, I think it could be useful, not > necessarily as an everyday usage item, but as an emergency feature -- > you/your system suddenly notices that it has no battery left at all, and > you/it don't think there's enough left for a conventional shutdown, or > you're doing a bunch of stuff. Your system suspends to disk and powers > down, and you've saved your work from serious corruption. I know it's a > lot of disk, but one of the things which is most important to me here is > reliability, and not just functionality but _continuous_ functionality, > and this kind of thing is a big part of that. I'd rather burn the storage > here, and then use a usb attached laptop drive to get extra mass storage > for music or whatever. > > /P. > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain > > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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