Your editor is not always known for making life easy for himself. Perhaps one of the most clear examples of masochistic behavior would be a certain preference for running development distributions on mission-critical systems. That said, your editor has stuck with a stable distribution on his laptop through a round of intensive travel earlier this year. But that was too easy, so, shortly before heading off to the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit, the laptop got moved to the Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" distribution. Needless to say, there have been some interesting ups and downs (literally) since then.

There is always a certain thrill that comes with upgrading a system and finding that important features no longer work. In this case, the problem was suspend and resume, which your editor uses heavily. In fact, the system would suspend just fine - as long as one failed to notice that, behind the cleverly darkened screen, the laptop's backlight had been left on. Needless to say, this new behavior is not helpful if one's goal is to save power while the system is suspended, but it gets worse than that. Your editor discovered this nice surprise after carrying the computer in a backpack for a few hours; by the time it came out, it was almost too hot to hold. Happily, no permanent damage appears to have been done.

Or, perhaps, unhappily. Your editor has been looking for an excuse to get a new laptop for a while.

More Here