[mdlug] Battery memory issue

[Garry Stahl]

Robert Jim Fulner wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My wife has had her laptop about a year now. Even though I had
> suggested otherwise she more or less has kept the machine plugged in
> all the time.
>
> Now that we are away on vacation the machine stays on for about 6
> minutes not plugged in. Aside from buying a new battery, is there
> anything we can do to improve functionality?
>
> If it matters, she runs windoze vista home edition, and I boot DSL off
> of usb when she's not looking. (she doesn't like me "penginizing" her
> computer).
>   

We had one woman in DCG that was afraid of Linux, she actually cowered
away from a Knopix boot.  And this was someone that was once an active
Amiga user.

I don't do windows.

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