> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Robert <infosec@die-optimisten.net> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400
> > Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't
> >> attract a of interest...
> >
> > As long as it's on [1] I hope it does?
> > I guess I'm not the only one who uses a Pentium 4 (or older stuff) for
> > firewalls and other systems, since they are very cheap to buy and
> > replace, and are more than sufficient (speed) for a lot of tasks.
> 
> I'm sorry to say that given the choice between making acpi suspend
> work on the entire thinkpad line sitting in front of a developer or
> some random duron system a million miles away, it's not even a choice.

Indeed.  I've asked for donations of laptops that don't suspend in the
past.  I'll work on them if I have them.  I have one laptop that
doesn't suspend, and it has a Geode CPU so don't even think of asking
me to get into the details of how many hours I've spent so far.

In response to my request, I've received one laptop -- with a broken
screen -- that doesn't help much.

I guess you get what you pay for.