4 June 2003Marked for death by Information Services (4)Offense: Checking out a corporate notebook and bringing it back in Standby mode. I don't much care what you were doing at the time; I do care that the battery was down to 8 percent. Fortunately, I checked it over the day before it was scheduled to go out again, so it will have the benefit of an overnight charge, but dayum, people. Posted at 6:55 PM to PEBKACYou mean it didn't have that "turn-off-automatically-if-left-alone-for-30-minutes" feature like my wife's laptop -- and her mom's that we've borrowed since my wife's MoBo fried? Posted by: McGehee at 5:39 AM on 5 June 2003This is a comparatively old box (vintage 1998); it lacks some of the niftier features of more up-to-date machinery. Posted by: CGHill at 7:22 AM on 5 June 2003 |