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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> |
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>> I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If |
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>> you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with |
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>> USB_SUSPEND the devices not used (say, the backup disk you transfer |
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>> to the results of your crunching every weekend) can be suspended, |
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>> saving a little bit of power. |
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> No, I don't need that, having no superfluous devices connected. My weekly |
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> backup is of the entire system to an external USB disk. Not from the |
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> running system; I reboot to a mini system (which I call a rescue system) |
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> each Sunday morning and backup the entire system to USB disk. So far I |
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> haven't needed to recover more than a small section of the backup. |
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>> You don't leave the monitor turned on and disable the power off |
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>> features of it, right? |
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> I resent the kernel's insistence on deciding when my monitor should be |
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> switched off. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself, thank you very |
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> much. |
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Well, if that's the way you feel, you obviously don't use (nor need) |
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udisks, and take care of everything that goes on with your machine, |
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like when to flush I/O or when to move memory pages to swap. |
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Me? I'm lazy; the more my OS takes trivial decisions from me, the more |
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time I have to do interesting stuff and get actual work done. That's |
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why I use Linux/systemd/PulseAudio/bluez/GNOME; the decisions they |
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take are usually the smart ones (from my point of view). |
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But that's just me. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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