Re: [Hampshire] Laptop & hard disk worry

Author: Alan Pope
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To: johnrhunt, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop & hard disk worry

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On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:16 +1100, John Hunt wrote:
> https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html
>
> Rather worrying. If you're using Ubuntu on your laptop, well worth a
> read.

This has been all over planet ubuntu for about a week or so. Slashdot
is quite behind on this topic.

"The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the
article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch
your hard drive power management settings by default."

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77672.html

http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug/
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-is-worse-than-i-thought/ http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-should-get-critical-status/

Then..

http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/ubuntu-is-not-causing-aggressive-power-management/

Note the _NOT_ in that.

Cheers,
Al.

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