gbhall
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Like millions of other users of PC's running any of MS operating systems, I choked on my supper when the news came out about the Rosetta Spacecraft power-saving features failing to work correctly - in any shape or form.
My Win7 intel-based PC won't reliably go to sleep or hibernate or wake up on specific prompts either, and never has, but it is no longer surprising when you find a $1billion spacecraft is no better.
For the record, Rosetta apparently has already woken once in 2012 when not supposed to do so, and when it did wake it promptly performed an uncommanded reboot and was consequently half-an-hour late for work.......
My Win7 intel-based PC won't reliably go to sleep or hibernate or wake up on specific prompts either, and never has, but it is no longer surprising when you find a $1billion spacecraft is no better.
For the record, Rosetta apparently has already woken once in 2012 when not supposed to do so, and when it did wake it promptly performed an uncommanded reboot and was consequently half-an-hour late for work.......
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