Re: automate resumption of session

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>    When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the
>>    computer.  Why? I never turn my computer off.

Same here, I always just suspend.

> I wish I had that option.  But I live way out in the country, and now
> and then there is a power outage.  My computer is running on a UPS,
> but UPS batteries die after being run down more than a few times, and
> battery replacement is expensive.  And then there are lightning
> storms...

For those computers where I'm not coming back to them the next day,
I hibernate them, so they're truly "off" and a powercut is perfectly
harmless, but when I turn them back on I get back to where I was.


        Stefan