Weekend buzz
The weekend was very good with lots of people around. Lots of work finished. Did shopping for my upcoming birthday.

acpi on
Fedora updated with 2.6.8-1.521 kernel. The usual nvidia installation and ndiswrapper followed suit. I started the kernel with acpi=on. I see only ac, battery and button loaded modules. The rest fan, processor and thermal are missing. Need to look into that. Dell laptops are very popular for broken BIOS. I need to update the BIOS and DSDTs before proceeding any further. The cpu-freq scaling and disk spin down are the other options that need an immediate look.
With battery
cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state
state: off-line
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: discharging
present rate: 21537 mW
remaining capacity: 39770 mWh
present voltage: 11241 mV

With the power on
cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state
state: on-line
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charging
present rate: 32702 mW
remaining capacity: 39750 mWh
present voltage: 11755 mV

When I press the button, the kernel goes off graciously shutting down all the services.