Re: more on saving during power out

"Mitch" <mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:110520082045022240%mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <zANVj.1841$Kk3.1070@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, weedhopper
> <whopper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Tim Murray" <no-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:raNVj.29803$7a.4354@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:20:05 -0400, weedhopper wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "Tim Murray" <no-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> >> news:28MVj.29773$7a.5469@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 20:09:12 -0400, weedhopper wrote:
>> >>>> My computer does it without a UPS.
>> >>>
>> >>> Liar.
>> >>
>> >> My computer does it without a UPS. But yours can't.
> No it doesn't.
> What you seem to be talking about is apps keeping temp files as they
> work, which is neither rare nor unique to platform (or uniform for the
> whole platform)!

So I'm right!

> But you decided it was doing something impossible -- detecting a
> voltage differential and then writing all current work to the hard
> drive in the instant before it loses all power. That isn't happening.

Yes it is.


>> > And neither can yours.
>>
>> No need for all that.
>> Technology advances constantly.  A huge number of people are working 
>> every
>> minute, to enhance OS capabilities.
>
> But you wrote that Windows has done it for a long time, and that it
> does NOW. That isn't about future tech, it's about today.

Yeah, my computer does it NOW.

> The problem is that YOU decided to describe what was happening in a way
> that is impossible.

It is doing that NOW!

> If you instead describe what actually happens, and in which programs,
> you'll find that we've already talked about what is going on, and it
> isn't about platform.

WHAT??