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Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug Fixed
jeevesbond writes "Back in October of 2007 we discussed a bug that would dramatically shorten the life of laptops using Ubuntu. Ubuntu users will be glad to know that a fix has finally been released for Ubuntu versions 9.04, 8.10 and 8.04 (LTS). However, as this fix is not yet in the update repositories, anyone wishing to test it should follow these instructions for enabling the 'proposed' repository. Report your results on the original bug report. Happy testing!"
Okay
Que the stories of laptop hard drives failing before their time and rebuttals and blame shifting from about 200 people, mingled with "in soviet Russia, hard drive crashes you!" jokes and ordered lists that feature question marks and profit.
Oh, and probably a hot grits joke or two.
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
Anti-climactic. What happens to those pesky cracks in the walls?
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
It's time for some more delicious kool-aid! Drink up!
Marcus smokes all of the crack in the walls and goes on a rampage after discovering a bug in his OS causes his laptop to die.
He shoots everybody in the house before beginning an armed standoff with the SWAT team, then kills 3 cops(one in full riot gear) before a sniper in a police helicopter shoots the gun out of his hand. Stunned but unharmed, Marcus then slips and falls off the roof into his unkempt wading pool before he is transanally disemboweled by the pool's drain.
Ostensibly, yes. In reality, those laptops had been making much more use of ReiserFS's best friend. I heard they even planned to run off with him.
Just run apt-get update && apt-get install acpi-support.
What? apt-get it yourself.
sudo apt-get update && apt-get install acpi-support.
Okay.
* * * --they cant all be your best, that would be confusing
Real men run as root.
Hey, why's my mouse moving all by itself?
That's GNU/Linux. Or did you mean some other Linux?
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
yeah, that's pretty bad. You have to give points to M$ here because they typically don't let things like this happen.
GNU has nothing to do with the issue here.
If you can't handle non-perfect hardware or firmware, then you don't make operating systems.
I don't know, quite a few companies in the past have made a pretty successful run of it.
"transanally disemboweled"
Eww! Eww! Eww!
Eeeeewwwww!!
Ewwww!
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Depends on if he wants to give them a hint, or have them form a line.
No, it sounds like really hot James Bond time-travel porn.
Real men don't use a GUI, you n00b.
Wrong.
I totally agree.
In the name of all chimps, Sir, I'd like to register my protest against this insult! Chimps are NOT like kdawson!
Like Deja Foo? The feeling that you've screwed this up before?