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Submission + - Application crashes, whether to report or ignore?

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jholster

on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @07:57PM

jholster writes: "Report or ignore?

Whether or not to submit an application crash report? KDE, OS X and Gnome [and maybe Windows too] offer you a possibility to easily report about application crash. How do you react to the crash report dialog? Do you think it's worth of one click, or are you afraid of your privacy? Does your OS provider (well, manufacturer) actually read the reports? FOSS guys surely does, but what about Apple?"

Comment DRI compatible with power management? (Score 1) 307

by jholster on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @11:42AM (#26268203) Attached to: AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code

I assume the OpenGL/DRI code doesn't conflict with ACPI power management, i.e. you are still able to suspend/hibernate/resume?

Comment OSses should sleep/hibernate by default, like Macs (Score 3, Interesting) 399

by jholster on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:41AM (#25516243) Attached to: PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times

Why doesn't every company / office apply a policy, that every desktop computer is configured to hibernate itself after e.g. one our of idling? Startup time will become meaningless and evergy savings would be huge (compared to 24/7 workstation uptimes). Personally I've never understood this boot time debate. I never shutdown my Macbook, which will wake from sleep in a second. AFAIK modern desktops are able to sleep/hibernate as well, maybe excluding some poor 3D drivers on Linux which cannot recover from sleep state. In the name of energy saving, every computer sold should be configured by default to sleep/hibernate after unused period of time, like every Mac does (don't they?).

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