Hi Dougie, On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:13 +0000, Dougie Richardson wrote: > There's an interesting piece on bug #59695 (decrease in hard drive > life),
Which has been all over planet ubuntu for about a week or so. Slashdot is quite behind on this topic. > Launchpad is suffering the Slashdot effect, but anyone have any thoughts > on this - I suspect this is the sort of article that could precipitate > into a widespread FUD campaign within a few days. > "The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch your hard drive power management settings by default." http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77672.html http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug/ http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-is-worse-than-i-thought/ http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/ http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-should-get-critical-status/ Then.. http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/ubuntu-is-not-causing-aggressive-power-management/ Cheers, Al.
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