Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 09:02:51 +1000 | Subject | Re: [IDEA] Poor man's UPS |
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On Sunday May 21, pgquiles@elpauer.org wrote: > > A short description would be "continuous system hibernation". Say you are > running Firefox, writing an e-mail in mutt and compiling the next X.org > release. The power goes off, your computer crashes or something happens and > you lose everything you were doing (yes, sadly you haved saved your e-mail as > a draft yet).
You need an editor that auto-saves regularly. May I suggest emacs ;-)
One of my biggest grips about the current fad of web-based interactions is that you get to use the editor built into your browser rather than your editor of choice - and the editor built into firefox is pretty lame.... Now if only firefox could embed a window from my running emacs ....
Or to put it another way: you don't need to save the whole system state: just save the bits you actually need to save.
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