Year: 2006

I am writing this post to warn you of a great danger. If you haven’t yet been to YouTube.com, please, don’t you ever go there. Ignore all links that your friends are sending you. And don’t listen to any news mentioning it on TV.

I made the tragic mistake of entering the site. And not only that – I came in exactly when I had five minutes of spare time!

It took me less than 20 seconds to figure the site out. I immediately understood what is what and what is where. And then I made my second tragic mistake. I stayed for a few more moments.

I have to say that 40 second into it, I was addicted. After that I lost the count of time. About 6 hours and 2 GBytes later I stopped. For a few minutes. And then I went back. And since then, I always want to go back.

Please, try your best… If you want to stay insane, if you want to have a life, if you have limited bandwidht – do not, I repeat, DO NOT ever go to YouTube.com.

Yet another year has passed and I am 28 years old today. I don’t think that it matters much though because I agree with that old saying: “You are only as old as you feel you are.”

This year all the best wishes started coming in earlier than ever – almost a week beforehand. And I’ve got more presents and congratulations than ever. I guess, that’s a good sign.

Thank you all for warm wishes. Much appreciated.

I’ve posted this entry recently, in which I say that it was trivial to configure hybernation for my laptop. I also mentioned that suspend-to-RAM wasn’t working properly for me.

Well, guess what? Jean passed by and left a comment with a link to this article. Less than two minutes later I successfully tested suspend-to-RAM. Jean’s article is for Debian. Things are slightly different in Fedora. Here is what I had to do.

1. Install acpid RPM (it was already installed on my laptop, but I thought I’d mention it anyway)
2. Delete or rename /etc/acpi/events/sample.conf file. (it defines the shutdown action on power button)
3. Restart acpid service by running service acpid restart as user root.
4. In KDE’s Control Center enable Suspend from the Power Control, Laptop Battery section.

You’re done! Now all you need to do is right-click on the battery monitor applet in KDE and choose Suspend action. The laptop will fall asleep immediately. Pressing the power button will wake it up.

Sweet!