No 56k: Post Your Desktop!

Yeah, I had done a custom layout for my MySpace page a few years ago and wanted to go back to the default. I just copied the code I wrote to that file until I can decide if I want to discard it or not.


The original photo is HERE. It's called "Light Pollution in North of Tenerife" - the largest of the Canary Islands, if I recall.
 
current....
http://img215.imageshack.**/img215/4397/backgroundmk6.jpg


oh and for the non mac people, look at the middle under UPTIME, 37 days 13hours.... lol, had to restart today, major updates :p
http://img518.imageshack.**/img518/9985/uptimedm3.jpg
 
^ How do you leave a laptop on for so long? My MBP will discharge its battery even if I close the lid in a matter of a few hours.
 
I see it's plugged in when he took the pic, but what kind of laptop user is plugged in 24/7?
 
Maybe a laptop from a person suffering from the horrible LDPC* syndrome. :(

* Lack of a Desktop PC
 
When it was my only computer, I had my laptop plugged in almost constantly, or, if the battery is useless then you have to have it plugged in.
 
Inspired by CrazyRussian's wallpaper, here's my new one:
https://pic.armedcats.net/2008/02/03/snip.jpg
 
Shawn said:
I see it's plugged in when he took the pic, but what kind of laptop user is plugged in 24/7?
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i leave it plugged in when i am at home, but when i am out of the house, at uni or somewhere it is on battery, i get 4/4.5 hours of charge out of it so it last the day when out then back at home it gets a charge :p
 
Shawn said:
^ How do you leave a laptop on for so long? My MBP will discharge its battery even if I close the lid in a matter of a few hours.
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Newer mac laptops, including yours, should by default, when put in sleep mode, keep the memory in standby mode until power is nearly gone, then go into hibernate mode (copy memory contents to disk).

You can run the following to ensure this behavior:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=true
[reset computer]
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IceBone said:
To copy what windows laptops have been doing since windows2000?
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Windows only hibernates, it doesn't keep the memory alive in low power mode. The benefit of the latter is that the machine comes up instantly, instead of waiting a couple minutes for the ram to be copied back from the harddrive.
 
IceBone said:
Windows has has standby and hibernate for yonks already.
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Has it? I only thought it did hibernate. Do you know when they added it/how to enable it; I could use it for a few Windows notebooks I manage.
 
It's there by default. It's hibernate you have enable by yourself in the power options.
 
Apparently Macs can now hibernate, but it's supposed to be faster than Windows hibernating. By default it's just sleep on Macs though.

Look here.

Edit: I tried it, it seems to do it quite a bit faster than my Windows desktop, but then again that's a slower machine. I'm gonna keep it on sleep though, because booting it up doesn't take that much longer than coming out of hibernate.
 
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