{"id":329,"date":"2004-01-01T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/01\/01\/windows-standby-sucks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T20:19:57","slug":"windows-standby-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/01\/01\/windows-standby-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Standby SUCKS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a280'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOkay, that really ticked me off.  I got some more work done on my big document and then put the laptop on standby and walk home.  When I get home and hit the power button to power back up the laptop from standby mode&#8230;. the laptop congratulates me by showing a black screen, a lit power light, BUT NOTHING happening.  I sit there banging the power key for a few more times, Ctrl-Alt-Del, keys at random for a few minutes telling myself, &#8220;NOOOO damnit please tell me I remembered to SAVE before this happened.  And if I DID save please tell me Word won&#8217;t decide to take a nosedive on my one and only important document on this machine at this moment.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I resign myself to powering off the machine and rebooting and hoping that all of my changes haven&#8217;t evaporated in Word.   Luckily I save my document every 5 minutes and every time I power down a laptop but I left Word running which could mean Word does something stupid like corrupt my file because it has nothing better to do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Moral of the story.<\/em> System Standby on Windoze SUCKS! Use Hibernate instead.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n*sigh*  I&#8217;ll wait until LongHorn shows its face before I trust that feature again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that really ticked me off. I got some more work done on my big document and then put the laptop on standby and walk home. When I get home and hit the power button to power back up the laptop from standby mode&#8230;. the laptop congratulates me by showing a black screen, a lit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,1217,1209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-stupid","category-windoze"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}