[plug] Super ugly bash stuff

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Tue May 3 11:54:00 WST 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 23:58 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I have found myself on aircraft a bit lately, and as my pile of steaming crud Acer Travelmate 740 
> lies through its teeth about battery life via ACPI, I decided to hack together a nasty script to 
> give me more realistic time estimates on battery charge/discharge.

Thanks, Brad - I also have poblems with overoptimistic BIOSES/utilities
telling me lies - think Klaptop. I'll certainly give it a whirl.

RichardM




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