Ubuntu's harddisk killing bug fixed

On slashdot it is mentioned that the famous harddisk killing bug for laptops has been finally fixed. This bug causes laptop harddisks to park and unpark the heads very frequently (as often as every 15 seconds) causing early wearing out of the harddisk. For months fixes have been floating around (do a google for Load_Cycle_Count Ubuntu) but until now it was never really fixed in the distribution. At the moment the fix is in testing for 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 and should be in the repositories soon.