[CLUE-Tech] Why Use APM? (Was Re: It was APM!)

Matt Gushee mgushee at havenrock.com
Mon Apr 8 15:41:52 MDT 2002


On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:30:48PM -0600, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
> 
> > So why use APM at all?
> 
> A question I think about on rare occassions. Reading the help topics
> during a kernel xconfig, I find myself wondering what, if anything, I
> should turn on. I leave my machine on all the time. There's really no
> need, however, to have both HDs going full-tilt-boogie while I'm asleep or
> (how I wish) at work.

Good point. But you might not need APM to put the HDs to sleep. My 
machine does it all by itself ... don't know how common a feature that
is, though.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/



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