I appear to have broken my netbook.
Well, ‘broken’ might be a bit steep – it no longer responds to a lid close event with the nice, neat standby mode it once treated me to. Instead, it triggers the standby script and gets itself into a half-on, half-off state.
In this state, the power light is flashing to indicate that it’s in standby. Unfortunately, it isn’t – everything’s still working fine. The only indication that it even tried to standby is that my SD card unmount/remount script is triggered and the default keyring is locked.
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It seems that Microsoft is scoring a bit win in the netbook sector, with claims doing the rounds that Windows XP has gone from a mere 10% of the market in February last year to 96% now.
As someone who uses – and likes – Ubuntu on most of his hardware, this is a surprise. Sadly, it’s not that surprising – most people will always vote for the status quo.
I did write an article for Bit-Tech on the matter, but a real journalist did the same. Accordingly, here’s the article that never made it:
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