Re: how to pause the sleep process when the OS already enter into sleep process
- From: Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:45:44 -0400
I agree. My laptop has to run with sleep capability disabled on AC power because I don't
want it going into screen-saver mode or sleep mode if I take ten minutes to hold a
discussion with my students. OTOH, I have sleep enabled for pure-battery mode so if *I*
fall asleep while using it, I don't lose battery power.
But the illlusion that just because there is no user input the computer can be shut down
is a gross fallacy. And I truly despise that reboot-after-installing-updates message.
joe
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:10:37 -0700, "David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messageJoseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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The capability actually forms an interesting variant of the
denial-of-service attack:
whenever your laptop is idle and wants to shut down, a program can say "no
you can't"
until the battery dies...
The problem I have with most "security fixes" is their definition of a fix
is to remove the capability. What? Security problem with letting apps veto
a suspend? OK, we'll remove that, problem solved. Meanwhile, legitimate
apps like video encoding apps that take hours to do their thing get
suspended, and the user's video is non-encoded the next morning.
Meanwhile, on XP SP2, if MS dictatorially decides it needs to reboot my PC
due to one of these security "fixes", it pops up a stupid dialog every time
I let the PC idle for a few minutes, saying I have 5 minutes to veto their
reboot, or it will reboot. The stupid thing aborted a 4 hour network copy I
had started and then went to lunch.
The medicine is worse than the disease.
-- David
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