In comp.os.linux.advocacy, NoStop
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on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:47:11 GMT
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining
>> | faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning on a company
>> | blog, because some wireless access points aren't configured to
>> | take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi
>> | power-saving mode.
>> `----
>>
> WTF has an AP got to do with power saving on a laptop?
Hm. I was thinking "application program" but you probably meant
"access point". Oh dear. Now my brain's going to hurt for the
rest of the morning.
Don't tell the terrorists; they might put up phony Wi-Fi nodes and
drain all of our laptop batteries.
The fiends!
:-)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>>
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602417&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
>>
>> Embrace and extend. Illegally-obtained and retained monopoly enables that.
>
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