Very Computer

by **Bo Grime** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:33:53

My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play Ages
of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

--
Bo G
"Mankind does nothing save through initiatives on the part of inventors,
great or small, and imitation by the rest of us. Individuals show the way,
set the patterns. The rivalry of the patterns is the history of the
world." (William James) Linus is just such an inventor; Linux is just such
a pattern.

by **Roodwr..** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:46:32

> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
> Ages
> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
starting up those frequently-used programs.

But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

One of those small things I like about Linux.

--Rod

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by **Bo Grime** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:07:57

> There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy
> for starting up those frequently-used programs.

It always loaded slower than frozen molasses for me.

Quote:
> But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
> programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
> programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

That's what I like most, if I happen to be using OO.

--
Bo G
"Mankind does nothing save through initiatives on the part of inventors,
great or small, and imitation by the rest of us. Individuals show the way,
set the patterns. The rivalry of the patterns is the history of the
world." (William James) Linus is just such an inventor; Linux is just such
a pattern.

by **Erik Funkenbusc** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:49:07

>> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
>> Ages
>> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
>> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
>> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
>> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

> There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
> starting up those frequently-used programs.

> But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
> programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
> programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

> One of those small things I like about Linux.

Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
long calculation begin right where they left off.

by **Iain D Broadfoo** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:13:33

Erik said something about Re: Restore Session:

>>> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
>>> Ages
>>> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
>>> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
>>> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
>>> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

>> There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
>> starting up those frequently-used programs.

>> But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
>> programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
>> programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

>> One of those small things I like about Linux.

> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
> my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
> open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
> long calculation begin right where they left off.

that's a hardware function, you twonk.

they're talking about logging off, leaving the machine running, and
logging back into the same things.

you're talking about hardware suspend, where the contents of memory get
dumped to disk, and reloaded when the system is started. and that's not
your session that is saved, it's the whole system.

and we have that too.

iain

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by **Gary Halloc** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:25:02

> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
> my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
> open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
> long calculation begin right where they left off.

Since when can you boot up another OS while Windows is hibernating?

Do you actually ever read before you respond?

Gary

by **Daero** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:32:11

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:13:33 +0000, Iain D Broadfoot

>Erik said something about Re: Restore Session:

>>>> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
>>>> Ages
>>>> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
>>>> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
>>>> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
>>>> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

>>> There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
>>> starting up those frequently-used programs.

>>> But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
>>> programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
>>> programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

>>> One of those small things I like about Linux.

>> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate ...

yea, sounds like you're a real linux advocate too !, yea really !

by **Iain D Broadfoo** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:50:34

Daeron said something about Re: Restore Session:

Quote:> yea, sounds like you're a real linux advocate too !, yea really !

was that supposed to be a reply to my post?

if so, you forgot to not snip all the words i wrote.

twat.

iain

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by **Peter Jense** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:25:59

> was that supposed to be a reply to my post?

> if so, you forgot to not snip all the words i wrote.

A lot of people have Erik in the bozo bin, so replies often come
indirectly. I'm not saying that it's the case here, but it would seem
likely ...

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by **Iain D Broadfoo** » Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:36:16

Peter said something about Re: Restore Session:

>> was that supposed to be a reply to my post?

>> if so, you forgot to not snip all the words i wrote.

> A lot of people have Erik in the bozo bin, so replies often come
> indirectly. I'm not saying that it's the case here, but it would seem
> likely ...

ahhhhh.

see, if i was to block someone (i recently removed all my filters) i
wouldn't bother replying to them at all...

and frankly, daeron seems pretty bozoid as well.

thanks for the explanation,

iain

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wh33, y1p33 3tc.

by **Nash** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:47:55

> >> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
> >> Ages
> >> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
> >> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
> >> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
> >> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

> > There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
> > starting up those frequently-used programs.

> > But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
> > programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
> > programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

> > One of those small things I like about Linux.

> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
> my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
> open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
> long calculation begin right where they left off.

Can you login with another account without losing your session?

by **Iain D Broadfoo** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:13:36

Nash. said something about Re: Restore Session:

>> >> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
>> >> Ages
>> >> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just rebooted
>> >> back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and several web pages
>> >> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
>> >> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

>> > There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy for
>> > starting up those frequently-used programs.

>> > But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
>> > programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
>> > programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

>> > One of those small things I like about Linux.

>> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
>> my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
>> open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
>> long calculation begin right where they left off.

> Can you login with another account without losing your session?

when hibernating, the system is powered off - when it comes back on,
it's in exactly the same state as before (actually, hopefully the clock
has changed to the current time :DA) - this is fairly OS-independent,
assuming decent hardware.

iain

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wh33, y1p33 3tc.

by **kosh** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:05:35

>>> My son's first game was rained out today, so he asked if he could play
>>> Ages
>>> of Empires II. I said yes, so he rebooted into Windows. I just
>>> rebooted back into Linux and up comes my shell, Knode, Kmail, and
>>> several web pages
>>> just where I left them. I love restore session. Takes a tad longer to
>>> finish loading KDE, but well worth it.

>> There was a startup group in Windows back when I was on it. It was handy
>> for starting up those frequently-used programs.

>> But restore session works a lot better in that it returns you to the
>> programs you were using at the moment you signed off. And with some
>> programs, it'll even return you to the file you were working on.

>> One of those small things I like about Linux.

> Sounds like a poor mans "hibernate" to me. With Windows, I can hibernate
> my session and have it restored *EXACTLY* the way it was, including all
> open documents (saved or not), even things that were in the middle of a
> long calculation begin right where they left off.

Can you have many hibernates at the same time? So that you could hibernate
as foo user and then login as bar user and then hibernate that user etc etc
and then restart the computer and then login again as any of those users
and they would restore exactly as they where? Lets say you had to power off
the machine to replace some hardware does hibernate work in that case?

by **Andy Somerfiel** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:02:22

Quote:> Since when can you boot up another OS while Windows is hibernating?

You can boot whatever the hell you want while windows is hibernated..

Andy

by **Andy Somerfiel** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:03:15

Quote:> that's a hardware function, you twonk.

Hibernate is purely software, you baboon.. Learn what hibernate is before
you speak again..

Andy