I guess I could say that I did actual work today. Whether or not the stuff I'm doing will be useful is anyone's guess.
I'm getting interested in playing around with ACPI on Linux in. Dunno if I'll actually end up doing anything or not. A lot of the stuff I'm doing at work involves making systems go to sleep, and then praying that they'll wake back up again (okay, I haven't really had any problems yet, aside from when one system crashed after sleep-cycling about 90 times).
Anyway, most people who use Linux have to use APM, which is an old way of doing power management. Unfortunately, APM doesn't let you deal with fun things like hot-plugging of devices, and it looks like my system will never hibernate when using APM (support just doesn't exist in the BIOS).
Of course, ACPI has all sorts of other tricks you have to deal with, so I guess I might end up breaking something, which would be no fun.
Other than that, I have to figure out if I can get paid in this pay cycle or not. I'm not even sure who to report my times to, and with the holiday weekend, I don't know if anyone cares. Also, the team supervisor was already gone today.
My money might get a little bit tighter than I was expecting while this gets worked out (well, I still have money, but it's just at the point where I'd have to move some from somewhere else).
Posted by mike at July 2, 2003 09:30 PM | Laptop , Software , Work | TrackBack