[plug] blowing away WindowsME

[Steve Grasso]

Hi Sol,

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 14:07, Sol wrote:
[snip]
> Actually he seems to like Mandrake so far but it's not all
> peachy-creamy. The winmodem is a dead loss - and no linmodems.org
> doesn't help. This can be got around with an external modem so there's
> no drama. Apart from that he may be forced - against his will - to use
> some proprietry software called Mortgage Broker Assist, which so far has
> been more of a hindrance than a help.

It may work under WINE....

>  He's also having some trouble
> with power management. His battery runs down even faster than it did
> with Windows which doesn't make sense. I checked top which said that
> kapm-idled was using anywhere between 60-90% of the CPU. Weird....

Yup. That's normal. kapm-idled is designed to keep the CPU ticking over. 
Apparrently this makes the CPU feel very happy.

All the best for 2002,
Steve