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20081105 Wednesday November 05, 2008

2008.next: demonstrating suspend-resume

Randy has been blogging on the suspend-resume feature and how it's been improving on a variety of x86-based systems. A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the USGS Menlo Park campus, and decided to record a demonstration of my own laptop being suspended and resumed multiple times:

(You can also access the video on channelsun.)

The demonstration is using Build 99, so there are a few differences and improvements in the release candidates soon to be published. With careful timing of your battery discharging and recharging, you can shoot for uptimes in days to weeks.

I'm also demonstrating my ignorance of all video-making rules, in that I used a Panasonic Lumix LX-2 in movie mode, outdoors, near traffic, and then edited the video using OpenSolaris and open source tools. But I'll note that, even in real life, you'll have to peer at your r600 closely to see the orange suspension indicator.

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