Well, I just spent about an hour and a half playing with ACPI on my
laptop. There was a patch mentioned recently on the linux-kernel
list called
wakeup_device (Bugzilla entry)
This makes a /proc/acpi/wakeup_device file, which you can then echo
what devices you would like to wake up your laptop from S3
sleep. For example, the LID button, or the power button, etc.
I tried the patch, but it wouldn’t let me set my LID or PWR buttons to
wake up the laptop. I tried setting everything it let me set,
but that resulted in a string of oopses. Guess I will stick with
software suspend (suspend to disk) now, since it seems pretty
stable under 2.6 again now.
Two events today:
Manned the greyhound table down at the petsmart on 104th and I25 for
Colorado Greyhound Companions
It was a nice time as usual. Took all 3 hounds, and they all had a
good time. Twyla was her typical flirtatious self (leaning on
people, trying to follow people off who petted her, etc). Kurt
was typically lazy (laying down on the hard cold floor since I
forgot to bring a blanket for him). Merlin was a bit reserved,
but still friendly. Passed out a bunch of brochures. Hopefully
it will result in some new foster homes. The group really needs
foster homes bad right now. We saw our friend Jackson the great
dane, and talked a bunch with the neutro lady at the next table
over. It was a nice time.
After I got back from the petsmart I gave the dogs a treat and headed
over to the
Clue North
Linux installfest. It was over at the devry campus about 2 miles from
my house, so it was really close and easy to get to. Found the
room after some wandering around (they had some big conference
blocking off some of the doors, so it wasn’t obvious how to get
into the room where the installfest was being held. Finally got
in there and there were lots of people already deep in installs
and such. Dived right in. The first about 30min were pretty
zippy with questions and problems coming from all sides. Then it
settled down some. Taught someone about iptables and firewalling
and looked at their shorewall setup. Tried to help someone else
install on a machine with limited space and tons of
partitions. Finally got them mostly set. Answered various other
random questions. It was fun. I wish I could have been there all
day to help out… they had a really nice turnout.
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Went up to boulder last night and made some beer at the beer store. We
had a good turn out of folks: about 6 of us making 2 batches. A
nice brown ale that should be ready to bottle in two
weeks. Since I hadn’t taken him out with me much, I took merlin
along (The beer store is dog friendly), and we sat outside at
the southern sun for some fish and chips after brewing. A
pleasent evening.
Tonight I take twyla down to her last therapy dog visit. She should
graduate tonight if she doesn’t have any issues.
Went down to denver to see
Rail Road Earth
down in denver last night. The show was supposed to start at 10pm, so
of course the band didn’t start until around 11:15 or so. I
guess clubs are kinda trapped into doing that now, since
everyone expects it. If they started shows on time no one would
be there for the early part of the show. It’s not a big deal to
me on a saturday, but annoys me on weekday nights.
The show was at
Cervantes Masterpeice Ballroom
which is a place I had never been to before. Not a bad venue. Good
space and seating, nice stage layout and decor, but the sound
system seemed kind of weak to me. They could do with putting up
some more speakers high up to project better. They did have some
acoustic baffle thingies, but not sure how much they helped. The
place has the largest disco ball I have ever seen, it was very
very cool.
The band was very good. They played two sets and finished up around
1:30am. They played hard the entire time. The fiddler was
particularly excellent. The audience was really into
things. Lots of dancing and such. In fact after they started
playing I don’t think there were many people that were still
sitting down. Everyone headed out to the floor. All in all I
would recoomend them. See them if they come near you. 🙂
Recap of the week here:
Wed I took twyla to her second therapy dog class. She did quite well
again. It’s amazing how hot it is in that place. I know now not
to take a jacket, but even so I am usually sweating when we get
back out. There were a few people that really enjoyed petting
twyla. It was a good visit.
Thursday had a nice time as usuall at hacking society. Didn’t get any
of the things I was hoping to get done done, but still had fun
not doing them. 🙂
Lots of possible music coming up this weekend… Some folks are going
to a show by
Railroad Earth
down in denver on saturday, then on sunday I might go to the clumsy
lovers show.