From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:35:00 +0200 From: Sven LUTHER To: Sergio Brandano Cc: "Timothy A. Seufert" , luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr, Michael Schmitz , Albrecht Dreß , Tim Wojtulewicz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Pismo status Message-ID: <20000518163500.B14744@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Reply-To: luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr References: <39226066.BF822A70@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <200005180812.JAA03379@copper.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200005180812.JAA03379@copper.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>; from sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:13:37AM +0000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:13:37AM +0000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > There is one standard feature of automobiles that has not yet been > implemented for computers, namely if you switch off the computer the > cooling system should stay on until needed. > > (On my 101, I often hear the fan going on just when I need to shut > down. The fact is that when I want to shut down, I do not want to > wait for the fan, and I also put the screen down...) Or not power off before they finished writing to the disk or other such task to be in a stable state, try removving the power cable from a not mobile computer ... Freindly, Sven LUTHER ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/