06-08-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by
joeyg
Can you define idle? You later mention watching it.
To me, idle means no keyboard/mouse activity. Watching the screen is a passive activity, and I cannot think of any way (telekinesis) where the computer would 'know' you are watching it.
Idle as in sleeping or suspended.
Quote:
Also, is this a laptop or notebook (something battery powered), since it could be related to an energy setting.
Yes, a notebook.
Thank you for the link, hicksd8. I don't have speakers at work however so your youtube video just has me staring at a BIOS screen. (Aside, making a video to explain something that can probably be explained in 2000 characters of text? What waste
) But it
definitely doesn't look like the same problem since the date appears to be getting reset instead of freezing.
BIOS update sounds like a good idea, yes. Unfortunately none are available.
I doubt a virus has the magical power to affect a computer while it's not running.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
battery-stats
BATTERY-STATS(5) File Formats Manual BATTERY-STATS(5)
NAME
battery-stats - collected battery statistics
DESCRIPTION
The battery-stats contains statistics about battery charge over time, as collected by the battery-stats-collector (8) daemon.
FORMAT
Each line in the file represents one sample and is of the form:
<seconds> <charge%> <powermode> <UTC-date> <UTC-time>
separated by spaces and terminated by a newline.
Where:
seconds
is the number of seconds since 1st Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC
charge%
is the battery charge a number between 0 and 100
powermode
indicates the power mode:
0 A/C off
1 On battery
2 On backup power
UTC-date
a human-readable date in the format YYYY/MM/DD. Note that this is in UTC, not the local or system timezone.
UTC-time
a human-readable time in the format HH:MM:SS (using a 24-hour clock). Note that this is in UTC, not the local or system timezone.
minutes-left
is the BIOS estimate of how many minutes of running time the battery would provide. This may be unreliable, depending on the BIOS
through which it was collected.
EXAMPLE
A battery under charge might result in the following samples:
1032651245 27 1 2002/09/21 23:34:05 94
1032651275 28 1 2002/09/21 23:34:35 97
1032651305 29 1 2002/09/21 23:35:05 100
1032651335 30 1 2002/09/21 23:35:35 103
1032651365 30 1 2002/09/21 23:36:05 106
FILES
The default set-up is to save battery statistics in /var/log and rotate the logs weekly, which results in this set of files:
/var/log/battery-stats - current (most recent) statistics
/var/log/battery-stats.[0-9]+ - less recent statistics
/var/log/battery-stats.[0-9]+.gz - ancient statistics
SEE ALSO
battery-graph(1), battery-stats-collector(8).
AUTHOR
Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com>
September 23, 2002 BATTERY-STATS(5)