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Linux 3.16 Will Detect If Your Dell Latitude Is Falling
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Originally posted by pali View PostMichael, sensors are really ST acceleromenters, but on Dell laptops, it is not possible to use them for other purposes. It is because ACPI export only one IRQ which detect hdd freefall. Accelerometer is 3 axes but there is no way (on MS Windows too!) to read status of axes. So for anything else as hdd freefall is driver useless.
"ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer (/dev/input/js0)"
3 axes, but really I don't think there's much use to it other than the fall detection. You're not going to pick up a laptop and move it around and stuff like that...
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Originally posted by pali View PostFor what? Databases and images of VM are good example of data you want to store on HDD... And also SSD is still not good medium for backup.
Or are you talking about price per megabyte?
Who does backups *to* a laptop anyway?
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Originally posted by MWisBest View PostYou mean only for the Dell ones, right?
Originally posted by MWisBest View PostBecause for the HP one I can read all the data just fine.
"ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer (/dev/input/js0)"
3 axes, but really I don't think there's much use to it other than the fall detection. You're not going to pick up a laptop and move it around and stuff like that...
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostHmm... I've had lots of spinning magnets fail, but never yet an SSD.
Or are you talking about price per megabyte?
Who does backups *to* a laptop anyway?
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostHmm... I've had lots of spinning magnets fail, but never yet an SSD.
Or are you talking about price per megabyte?
Who does backups *to* a laptop anyway?
I used to do support for GP's (General Practitioners), and one very cheap and practical backup process I implemented was to backup the essential databases to some of the GP's laptops so they had access to at least some data at home or the hospital in the event internet access failed. And it was free offsite archiving.
Considering the data was mostly low-level secrity stuff, no one was fussed to much about simply passworded zip's.Hi
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Originally posted by lethal View PostDoes it display a popup or such saying the laptop is falling ?
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Originally posted by Baconmon View PostI lol'd for days.. Who is going to be able to read a pop-up on the laptop while it is free-falling?.. Unless you are also falling with it at the same time...in which case, your laptop's hard-drive is probably the least of your concerns..
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