For a half year I own a ThinkPad X60s, my fifth ThinkPad and my smallest but fastest laptop I ever had. The first time after installing Gentoo Linux on the new machine I was surprised that suspend to RAM was instantly working, I just had to stop my WIFI card (ipw3945) and woops, it went to sleep and it even resumed well. Using the hibernate-scripts a perfect setup inclusive locking of the KDE session was easy to configure (just uncommenting the right lines). In the need for more hard disk space (this digital SLR camera is by far a greater space killer than my (growing) ogg vorbis music collection) I bought a new 160 GB SATA hard disc. Migration was easy, I just connected the second disk with an external USB to SATA bridge and rsynced the partition content.

The most who know me, also know that I love tea. Especially (flavored and unflavored) black tea, green tee and the fine white tee. (I don't like fruit tea which isn't even tea in the sense of a drink made from tealeafs.) At work, I'm used to drink a lot of tea, up to three liter.

Today at work my cup, freshly filled with hot black Earl Grey tea, decided to become old - the handle broke off and the tea spilled over the desk. My relative new ThinkPad X60s were fully covered with tea. But, No Panic!

Is it the latest kernel update I installed on my Gentoo Box (suspend2-sources-2.6.16-r8) or the newly updated xorg-server-1.1.0? Today I recognized while writing some text, that my power consumtion indicator of KThinkBat displays 14 W. And this battery powered and with lightest display backlight. Normaly, it needs arround 17/18 W.

This is great news - my ThinkPad lasts noticably longer on battery power than before.