On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> > mmm ..
> >
> > by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
> > Dell laptop.
> >
> > Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
> > it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon
> > too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation ..
> > hmmmm..)
>
> *grin*
>
> > the best bit is the video card .. 32mb ATI Mobility .. runs two monitors
> > in 1400 * 1050 high colour .. and you can move between one and the other
> > (just like you;ve been able to do on Macs since the years dot.) .. the
> > 15in 1400*1050 screen is good too and seems to allow a decent viewing
> > angle instead of the usual 5 degrees or so.
>
> I have an ATI Mobility M1 in my laptop, too (Vaio z600tek). You'll be
> glad to know that it's supported under XFree86. The bad news is that 3d
> acceleration isn't supported (and I don't know whether it's likely to
> be), so leave a winders partition lying around if you want to play
> games.
nahh .. not much of a games fan .. so 3d is rather wasted on me .. but
I'll keep winders (which is already annoying the F..k out of me [1]) fo
rthngs like Autoroute and the like, which are actually very good .. in a
windoze sort of way.
> > all I need to do now is partition magic it and install Linux ... does
> > anyone know if fips.exe can resize partitons without hoovering the lot ??
> > or shuold I get partition magic anyway ?
>
> Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS
> need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't
> change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one.
> It's the suspend to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( )
ooh ta .. noted ...
[1] windoze ... eff'in thing .. Thats the thing I like about
professional software .. a small animated magician appears to explain
it to you in an american accent .. must have ordered Windows Disney
edition by mistake .. no I would not like to see 'a short introductory
video' ... no .. I would NOT like to set up an internet connection right
now I'd like to use explorer to open a f.i.le. .. how hard is that. No
thanks i STILL don;t want a short introductory video .. what I would like
is a 'don't ever bother me again' button instead of just 'remind me later'
or 'play now' .. oh good so I'll need to reboot just because I change the
color depth of the display ... first time I've used windoze in a year or
so and its anoying the hell out of me so far.
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
