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Well, keep in mind that a laptop in standby will drain your battery. Slowly, but surely.-f0dder (January 26, 2008, 04:21 PM)
"But I always leave my laptop on wall power when I'm home!" - don't, you reduce battery lifetime.-f0dder (January 26, 2008, 04:21 PM)
But I actually read some contradictory information on the subject. Usually though people agree to say that it doesn't matter that much :Removing the battery from the laptop when running on fixed power protects the battery from heat. With the concern of the battery overheating and causing fire, a spokesperson for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advises to eject the battery of affected laptops and to run the machines on a power cord. It should be noted that on a power outage, unsaved works will be lost.(Isidor Buchmann, How to prolong lithium-based batteries, http://www.batteryun...y.com/parttwo-34.htm)
The question is often asked, should the laptop be disconnected from the main when not in use? Under normal circumstances, it should not matter with lithium-ion. Once the battery is fully charged, no further charge is applied. However, there is always the concern is malfunction of the AC adapter, the laptop or the battery.
• Connect the computer to an electrical outlet when possible because battery life is largely determined(from my Dell laptop manual)
by the number of times the battery is used and recharged.
• Place the computer in standby mode or hibernate mode when you leave the computer unattended for
long periods of time. See "Power Management Modes" on page 41 for more information about standby
and hibernate modes.
Removing the battery from the laptop when running on fixed power protects the battery from heat.is NOT recommended in my Dell manual.
For optimal computer performance and to help preserve BIOS settings, operate your Dell™ portableNow, that could be seen as a clever way for Dell to sell more batteries... But I'd doubt it.
computer with the battery installed at all times.
And also keep in mind that if the power b0rks while in standby, it's almost as bad as if you hard reboot while the machine is on, only difference is that in standby, at least your filesystem buffers have been flushed.-f0dder (January 25, 2008, 09:39 AM)
)And also keep in mind that sometimes windows has trouble resuming from standby, although that's really hardware/driver related. So be careful!
I wouldn't recommend standby during the night, use hibernate and unplug your system, you get lower power consumption, and guard against power surges as well. But do use standby when you're leaving your system for more than a few minutes!-f0dder (January 25, 2008, 09:39 AM)
Krusader-roady (January 26, 2008, 10:57 AM)
this is a very strange company.....-sigh... (January 25, 2008, 10:24 PM)
Makes you wonder "who" is actually putting all those "annoyance" virii on the web? I'm not a "conspiracy theorist" by any means, but neither do I pretend that the Emperor's New Clothes are anything but his B-Day suit.-CodeTRUCKER (January 25, 2008, 08:48 PM)
), one still has to adapt to these rules and constraints, even if they were artificially created. There are different ways to do that, one being to play it their way, or at least partly -- Comodo is not that expensive BTW...Yes, some kind of malware can do that. Recently, they discovered a specimen that can break out of a sandboxed environment like VMware and cause havoc in the host machine.Wouldn't be so effective if the VM was installed inside a Linux system.-Lashiec (January 25, 2008, 01:40 PM)-Dormouse (January 25, 2008, 01:49 PM)
true enough, but doing something might help, whereas doing nothing....
target-Target (January 24, 2008, 07:33 PM)
)I stopped using timekeeper and created my own, the interruptron.
Does the same thing and it's a lot simpler and lest obstructive.
You can get it (free) from the second url in my sig.-urlwolf (January 25, 2008, 07:15 AM)
http://www.indexyourfiles.com/
I've been playing with this for the last couple of days. Once the indexes are complete it's faster than a speeding bullet. Very impressive and freeware from Portable apps!
-Cuffy (January 23, 2008, 02:01 PM)