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S3 Standby State Done Right

Posted by kdawson on from the you-will-sleep-now dept.

For Earth Day, Cameron Butterfield has written in with a pointer to his article on how to get your Windows PC into S3 sleep, and why you want to. It covers the question of how to take advantage of this extremely low-power mode even when your machine is an "always on" file server, remote desktop, or VNC server.

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  1. I just.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    let my Windows crash to make it go into Standby....

  2. APM Sucks too. by twitter · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is that [APM] standard "shit" as well?

    Yes, like all M$ defined "extensible" non standards, APM is shit. It's older, less complicated and better fixed shit but shit none the less. It relied on finding a DOS partition for hibernating, and was different on each laptop. APCI is much the same, but screws up even more of your motherboard. LinuxBIOS or other free software implementations are much better.

    Would you like to point me to the follow up email from Eric Rudder that says "Hi Bill - As you requested, we've made the ACPI extensions specific to Windows so no one else can implement them. Cheers!" I can't seem to find it.

    I'm surprised Bill was dumb enough to document his intent. I'd be very surprised to find follow ups other than the 600 page ACPI non specification. If an email from Bill Gates himself saying "screw Linux power management over" is not good enough for you to understand the situation, I'm not sure what is.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.