[ltp] Hello there (:

[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

Glad you had good luck with that. :)
On 2 August 2006, at 02:28, Brian Ronald wrote:

> Just quickly introducing myself.  I'm Brian Ronald, and I've just  
> bought
> my second ever laptop.  It's an R50e, and I love it to bits.  I've
> resized the XP partition, burned the recovery CDs, removed the  
> recovery
> partition and installed Fedora Core 5 on the free space.
>
> I'm the remaining founding member of Tyneside Linux User Group
> (www.tyneside.lug.org.uk) so installing Linux was not a scary
> experience.  I switched to Linux from DOS. (-:
>
> The Thinkpad runs Linux as nicely as my poor Compaq Armada E500.  Its
> battery died, and a new laptop wasn't a lot more than a new battery.
> Like the E500, my R50e never resumes from a suspend-to-RAM.  I have
> worked around this problem by using swsusp2.  It works a charm.
>
> If your computer can suspend, Fedora Core 5 will add a Suspend item to
> the System menu in Gnome.  This crashed my laptop whenever I missed  
> the
> Log-out or Shutdown entries - a major pain.  This menu item can't be
> edited, annoyingly.  I worked around this problem by replacing FC5's
> suspend handler with its hibernate handler:
>
> 	cp /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
>
> Crude but effective.  Selecting that suspend item now safely  
> hibernates
> my Thinkpad.
>
> This list is rather higher traffic than I anticipated.  All I can say
> is, "Thank goodness for procmail."
>
> Hello!
> -- 
> Brian Ronald (Brianetta)            http://www.ppcis.org/
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> I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry