Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9.

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <200310292333.06470.rob@landley.net>,
Rob Landley  <rob@landley.net> wrote:

| > In the meantime, keeping a digital camera close by when testing is a
| > low tech/high tech solution to this.
| 
| Very few McDonalds have a digital camera behind the register to loan out.  I 
| was lucky they printed out some blank cash register paper for me to write the 
| panic down on.  (Ordinarily, I take notes on my laptop...)

If you don't carry a camera then bring a spare laptop ;-)

| If this was easily reproducible, I'd recreate it at home under a serial 
| console.  (Well, this being a "modern" laptop with no serial port, maybe I 
| could I could rig up a parallel port console or something.  But the 
| principle's the same.  No, don't ask me why this thing has no serial port but 
| does have a parallel port.  Ask IBM.)

I assume because serial mice and printers are rare, parallel printers
are not. That said, I would not buy a laptop w/o serial, too useful for
other things.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.