From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.21]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1863737 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4804014B.6090004@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:47 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080326 MultiZilla/1.8.3.4e SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Battery gauges (was: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Panorama vs. SNAP) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/14/08 09:06 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:55:45 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote: > > >> Carl Gehr wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:16 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote: >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>> I downloaded and installed the wpi version for SNAP. I have checked the >>>> uninstall in WarpIN, and it will restore back to SNAP if you remove it. >>>> >>> OK, thanks! That's good to know. When I get some time, maybe I'll >>> give it a go. >>> >>> OTOH, my power/battery widget seems to work OK. [It's not the beer >>> barrel style, though. It looks like a battery, blue on the bottom with >>> a yellow segment that grows as the battery is used.] >>> >>> Thanks, again. >>> Carl >>> >> I pulled the plug on mine and get the same as you. I have yet to try >> the "beer" widget to see what it looks like on battery. If it shuts >> down in 6 minutes, I will not be too happy. >> > > I had totally forgotten about the 'fly over' info. > > Mine also shows "0:06" and the icon is an 'electrical plug' when the > plug is in and running on AC. But, when I pull the plug on the AC, it > immediately shifts to "3:08" and indicates it is on battery. > > The 0:06 should indicate the time remaining to full charge. You may need to exercise the battery a bit to get it to go all the way up. How often do you run a deep discharge on it? -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------