Laptop Suspend, Status

Tags: , , , Posted 2009-05-07 22:31 5 Comments

I’ve inad­ver­tently stum­bled onto the calo­rie cycling method of weight loss. Two days of rad­i­cally low calo­rie intakes (1300) fol­lowed by two days of “nor­mal” intakes for my desired loss (1850). I’ve seen vary­ing num­bers, but the rec­om­mended course is to use this method when your weight loss flat­tens out, I was using it because I couldn’t keep up the 1300 calo­rie day for more than a cou­ple days at a time. The goal is to con­dense your calo­ries into waves over the course of a week, so you trick body into keep­ing your metab­o­lism up even though you’re eat­ing less — short-circuiting the “star­va­tion” mechanism.

I also dis­cov­ered, finally, one rea­son why my lap­top has always had trou­ble sus­pend­ing: if Rhythmbox is play­ing when you shut the lid it won’t prop­erly sus­pend. IMO, this is a tremen­dously evil behav­ior, and I’ve stuffed my lap­top into a bag and let it nearly cook itself to death many times because of it.

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  • Darwin Survivor says:
    2009-05-08 at 12:05 am

    You know you can eas­ily dis­able the Rhythmbox thing right? I per­son­ally hate it as well. When I tell my lap­top to shutdown/reboot/logout/suspend/whatever it should do it.

    It is one of the plu­g­ins, just dis­able the plu­gin and all is good.

    Note: Transmission (the default bit tor­rent appli­ca­tion) does the same thing, very annoying.

  • ethana2 says:
    2009-05-08 at 12:42 am

    Speaking of Rhythmbox and evil, how do I make it stop abus­ing my noti­fi­ca­tion area?

  • Jon McCann says:
    2009-05-08 at 1:19 am

    Ugh. Sorry James. It isn’t sup­posed to do that. I’ve nearly cooked a lap­top too — not a smell you eas­ily forget…

  • tm says:
    2009-05-08 at 2:51 am

    Hmm about that cook­ing — i won­der if any­thing has changed in recent ver­sions of power man­ager or if it is a tweak of ubuntu, but on jaunty the duo seems to respect user input and sus­pends also when music is play­ing, and tor­rents are downloading.

    I’ve cooked con­tents of my bag in cou­ple of occa­sions and now when sus­pend­ing com­puter, I always look on the snooze light for good ten sec­onds in fear that it doesn’t come to life or maybe decides not to sus­pend — quite a habit one can develop :)

  • James Cape says:
    2009-05-08 at 6:36 am

    Darwin S: Yeah, I dis­abled the plu­gin as soon as I saw the launch­pad report on it.

    tm: The dis­cov­ery was made in Jaunty; you need to be play­ing an inter­net radio stream that has been dis­con­nected. I think RB is pre­vent­ing the lap­top from sus­pend­ing until the stream times out, but some screwi­ness is pre­vent­ing the lap­top from sleep­ing *after* that. (for the imme­di­ate fix, it may be a miss­ing Uninhibit() in the RB plugin)

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