locating parts

2003-10-07 Thread Derek Doucette
Hello: I just came upon a hp omnibook with a broken lcd. I helped the guy get the data off of the drive and he let me keep the laptop. When pulling the drive from the laptop, a few of the pins broke on the connector. This connector is basically an elbow connecting the pins from the hard drive

Re: locating parts

2003-10-07 Thread Derek Doucette
I have thought of that, but I know it will be too tight, and I won't be able to fit both cables in there they way that hard drive is mounted. HP has it down to a science when conserving space... Derek Doucette http://derek.homeunix.org Bob Bell said: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:02:59PM -0400,

Well here's the quote of the day...

2003-10-07 Thread Ray Cote
Linux vs. Windows Viruses To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. By Scott Granneman http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/188 -- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locating parts

2003-10-07 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:02:59PM -0400, Derek Doucette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just came upon a hp omnibook with a broken lcd. I helped the guy get the data off of the drive and he let me keep the laptop. When pulling the drive from the laptop, a few of the pins broke on the connector.

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-07 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:35:15 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, at 10:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian... ... near-zero support from major third-party vendors ... ... whenever support and Debian occur in the same sentence, Libranet should come to mind ...

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-07 Thread bscott
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, at 6:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm referring to how third-party companies (in our case, especially system vendors like Dell, Compaq, et. al.) support the software. What most of them support is Microsoft. Actually, most of the major vendors provide at least some