I'm just posting this as a bit of weirdness.

Last night, I accidentally launched my old version of Minimo on my N800 (I'm even too lazy to uninstall software, go figure!). I shut it down and forgot all about it until, in the middle of the night, I got the dreaded "Tune Of the Low Battery". I plugged the tablet in, checked and sure enough, a bunch of stray Minimo processes were polluting my memory.

For some reason I decided it might be time for a fresh start anyway, so I shut down my tablet and rebooted. This afternoon I saw that my battery meter was again dropping dangerously low and upon doing a top on xterm, I found the same Minimo processes still in my list!

I am adamantly certain that I did not restart Minimo after the reboot, so how in the name of Seven Hells could that thing survive a restart?

(I've uninstalled Minimo now and I'm taking the Itablet to a priest this sunday, because this creeps me out)

Maybe because you "restarted" while the charger was plugged in?

Huh? Shutdown isn't shutdown?

(I did a "shutdown -h now" as root)

Yeah, I think that's it. Have had similar wierdness with mpd.

When the charger's in, the device is on. To manage charging, and to put pretty pictures of a battery/bar graph getting filled up, over and over again.

So a shutdown with the device plugged in is not a shutdown.
Just shut it down with the charger unplugged, then plug it in as soon as the screen goes black.

Take out the battery, like they do for vampires.

Well, the tablet rebooted by itself today while on battery. I just checked and modest is running. I always forget to uninstall it (since it's of no use to me), now it's the good time to do it