biking with a sleeping laptop?

[Matt Price]

I've always understood that if it was suspend-to-disk there's no problem -
-the computer is entirely off -- but if it's suspend-to-ram then there are
potential difficulties.  But the latter may be hearsay.  I myself have been
hit by a car while riding; my HP omnibook got a nasty chunk taken out of and
is now rather tricky ot open (screen wants to come off) but it woke up from
standby (APM suspend-to-ram) and worked just fine.

matt

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:48:33PM -0400, Neil McLeod wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad T42. Is it safe to suspend the
> computer and then go biking with the laptop in my backpack, or can this
> cause damage?
> 
> Thanks!
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