Micha Feigin wrote:
[...]
Hi Micha, Hi to Everyone,
Thanks for your help. I have not gone very far, in spite of much time
spent. I thought I ought to tell some details, especially since it might
help someone else, or, maybe, convince someone else to step in and tell
his/her own
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:58:49 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
[...]
Hi Micha, Hi to Everyone,
Thanks for your help. I have not gone very far, in spite of much time
spent. I thought I ought to tell some details, especially since it might
help someone
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:11:29 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Hi Chris, Hi to Everyone,
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
[...]
Hi Micha, Hi to Everyone,
Thanks for your help. I have not gone very far, in spite of much time
spent. I thought I ought to tell some details, especially since it might
help someone else, or, maybe, convince someone else to step in and tell
his/her own experience.
At first, I
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:41 PM
To: Stackpole, Chris
Subject: Re: my
On Wednesday 2009 January 07 08:22:06 Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
I just got the output of lspci at this stage.
Looking at your hardware I see this:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
This
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:22:06 -0600
Stackpole, Chris cstackp...@barbnet.com wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr
Hi Chris, Hi to Everyone,
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:11:29 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Hi Chris, Hi to Everyone,
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole
2009/1/6 Koh Choon Lin kohchoonl...@gmail.com:
Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better
ordering a specific DELL mouse ?
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
I do not recall _ever_ seeing a USB
Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better
ordering a specific DELL mouse ?
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
You had mentioned earlier that you were unfamiliar
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
I do not recall _ever_ seeing a USB three-button mouse without a wheel.
I am currently using such a mouse from Sun. Too bad its failing and I
hope to get a replacement soon.
Koh Choon Lin wrote:
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
I do not recall _ever_ seeing a USB three-button mouse without a wheel.
I am currently using such a mouse from Sun. Too bad its failing and I
hope to
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
[snip]
For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far !
The UBUNTU v8.04 Gnome Desktop proposes a few things to get wifi
working, but it does
From: Stackpole, Chris [mailto:cstackp...@barbnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop
2009/1/6 Kent West we...@acu.edu:
Oh I hated those mice! Mostly because they don't have a scroll wheel;
you get spoiled to a scroll wheel really fast.
That is quite what the OP wanted.
(You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast
too. I love it on my Debian lappy
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:29:31 +0800
Koh Choon Lin kohchoonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better
ordering a specific DELL mouse ?
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2009/1/6 Kent West we...@acu.edu:
(You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast
too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated
when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature.
What's that? Link, please
2009/1/6 Kent West we...@acu.edu:
What's that? Link, please
http://www.symphonious.net/2007/05/22/two-finger-scrolling-rocks/
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=26480 (the second posting, by
roadnottaken)
Excellent, thanks! You don't want to know what google thinks I'm
searching for
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
[snip]
For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far !
The UBUNTU v8.04 Gnome Desktop proposes a few things to get
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:41 PM
To: Stackpole, Chris
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: my new
On Tuesday 2009 January 06 14:47:19 Stackpole, Chris wrote:
Meh, the sudo thing annoys me. I just `sudo su` and get the root prompt.
I will probably get yelled at again for saying that though...
sudo -s works even if some crazy has removed/replaced/broken in su binary.
You might also want sudo
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:41 PM
To: Stackpole, Chris
Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3
Kent West:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2009/1/6 Kent West we...@acu.edu:
(You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast
too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated
when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature.
What's that?
Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better
ordering a specific DELL mouse ?
OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find
one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea?
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Hi to Everyone,
I've received my new DELL Inspiron 1525... It surely takes some time to
get used to such a difference, whatever you speak of the overall size,
the keyboard, Ubuntu... and, above all, the touchpad, which I find
absolutely horrible. I thought I could just plug any spare mouse,
Bernard:
Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better
ordering a specific DELL mouse ?
No, any USB mouse will do.
For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far !
lspci
iwconfig
Do you recommend to give it a quick extra trial before installing Debian
On 01/05/09 15:41, Jochen Schulz wrote:
[snip]
I don't see why you try to make it all work if you are going to throw
the system away anyway.
Theoretically, the manufacturer has tested the stick configuration.
So, if you can get it work with stock, you should be able to get
it to work with
Sorry, sent off list by mistake.
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:29:36 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Hi to Everyone,
I've received my new DELL Inspiron 1525... It surely takes some time to
get used to such a difference, whatever you speak of the overall size,
the keyboard, Ubuntu...
2009/1/4 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
Why not the SL line, something special about them?
They're IdeaPads.
IdeaPad SL? That sounds like a joint venture between Dell and Tampax
if I ever heard one.
--
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http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
And BTW, the ThinkPads will waste up to 3W more in Linux than in
Windows, so keep that in mind when you look at battery life figures.
Is there any reason? Is this specific to ThinkPads?
--
Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.org -
On 01/04/09 08:02, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
[snip]
French (AZERTY) keyboards are awful
Why am I not surprised
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
2009/1/4 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
Why not the SL line, something special about them?
They're IdeaPads.
IdeaPad SL? That sounds like a joint venture between Dell and Tampax
if I ever heard one.
The ThinkPad SL is probably a
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:05:31 +0100
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org wrote:
On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
And BTW, the ThinkPads will waste up to 3W more in Linux than in
Windows, so keep that in mind when you look at battery life figures.
Is there any
On Sun January 4 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
If this is a QWERTY keyboard, then this is a British keyboard, not
a French keyboard. French (AZERTY) keyboards are awful to use when
programming or working with the shell, since [ ] { } and \ need the
AltGr key.
no, it's French.. trust me.. The
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
I would be looking at a ThinkPad for my next laptop and hopefully,
comes with full support from a free GNU/Linux distro.
Full support? ThinkPad T or ThinkPad X are the best bets. After
that, ThinkPad W or ThinkPad R. You are likely to meet an ALPS
On 2009-01-04 07:15:28 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
my Dell XPS laptop is over 3 years old. I travel with it all the
time.. in.. out of the case, through airport security, rental cars,
hotels... I busted the V key last year, replaced the keyboard
myself. I didn't understand the ordering
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sun January 4 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
If this is a QWERTY keyboard, then this is a British keyboard, not
a French keyboard. French (AZERTY) keyboards are awful to use when
programming or working with the shell, since [ ] { } and \ need the
AltGr key.
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mistake of getting any non-ThinkPad
Lenovo laptop, nor the ThinkPad SL. The Linux support is non-existant, and
it is nowhere near the quality of a true bloodline ThinkPad (models X, T,
R, W).
Why not the
On Sat January 3 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote:
My T-61 has far surpassed what I expected of it.. Expensive?? Depends
on what you consider expensive.. A $29 bag of chips is expensive.. A
lappy built to take abuse and somehow remain useable is priceless..
my Dell XPS laptop is over 3 years old. I
On Friday 02 January 2009 13:20:05 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issues. I can run it for 5
or 6 hours on battery. As for price, I never buy anything $500 USD as
you can boy three or
On 2009-01-04 16:55:39 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
French keyboards are quite different. Not only they are AZERTY, but the
symbols are in some very different positions, compared to the US
keyboard. They do have the £ sign, but not in the same key as the 3. See
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:05:31 +0100
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org wrote:
On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
And BTW, the ThinkPads will waste up to 3W more in Linux than in
Windows, so keep that in mind when you look at battery
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:38:39 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:05:31 +0100
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org wrote:
On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
And BTW, the ThinkPads will waste up to 3W
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:45:09AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that
will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a
good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more
important is
On Wed,10.Dec.08, 18:39:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at
the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't up
to par with the
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:02:16 +0200
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed,10.Dec.08, 18:39:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at
the drivers
If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and
Dells.
Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo
models. Would there be a difference in support?
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2009/1/3 Koh Choon Lin kohchoonl...@gmail.com:
If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and
Dells.
Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo
models. Would there be a difference in support?
Yes, especially for non-US support.
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and
Dells.
Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo
models. Would there be a difference in support?
Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mistake of
Andrei Popescu:
I have an R61 Thinkpad bought new last July. Before that I had an A21p
and R50e (both IBMs, second hand). The R50e I gave to my mother and she
is very happy about it. IMO ThinkPads are not very stylish, but they are
very sturdy. Some models have Suse pre-installed.
I
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Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mistake of getting any non-ThinkPad
Lenovo laptop, nor the ThinkPad SL. The Linux support is non-existant, and
it is nowhere near the quality of a true bloodline ThinkPad (models X, T,
R, W).
Why not the SL line, something special about them?
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Mark Allums wrote:
In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine
initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if
you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you
just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be more.
Carl Fink wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:00:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there
will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the
movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:45:39 -0500
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine
initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if
you plan to use laptop intensively
initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if
you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you
just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be more.
My DELL Latitude is approaching 8 years of heavy usage (~ 10 hours
daily) and running
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:09:01 +0800
Koh Choon Lin kohchoonl...@gmail.com wrote:
If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and
Dells.
Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo
models. Would there be a difference in support?
At least
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there
will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the
movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that
the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective.
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there
will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the
movies work fine in Linux. I searched
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP,
there will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW,
the movies work
I just buy a NEC Versa Laptop s5500, made in china. the lcd broke to
pieces after a month i use it. luckly the support is reachable and
quite friendly. But i have to spent another USD300 to replace it.
I am running debian. Only work on the latest lenny kernel. It get it
working except for the
(sniped everything because it was trashed anyway..)
You who have been top posting suck Really? seriously. GWTFP.
My T-61 has far surpassed what I expected of it.. Expensive?? Depends
on what you consider expensive.. A $29 bag of chips is expensive.. A
lappy built to take abuse and
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Friday 02 January 2009, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote about 'Re:
OT: laptop recomendations':
Don't blame Dell for the video being defective, in this case. The
culprit is NVidia, and all laptop makers are at their mercy.
The laptop in question (Inspiron
On Friday 02 January 2009 01:09:35 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: OT: laptop recomendations':
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issues. I can run it for 5 or
6
hours on battery. As for price, I never buy anything $500 USD as you can
boy three or four of those per every expensive machine. So Even if it
On 01/02/09 12:20, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issues. I can run it for 5 or 6
hours on battery. As for price, I never buy anything $500 USD as you can
boy three or four of those
2009/1/1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com:
I'm happy with my Dell Inspiron E1505. My roommate is happy with his more
recent laptop purchase from Dell. My other roommate likes his Thinkpad,
but it is a much older system, so I can't say that reflects the quality of
current
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at
the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't
up to par with the synaptic).
I'm happy with my Dell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:00:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there
will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the movies
work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that the video
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at
the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't
up to par with the
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: OT: laptop recomendations':
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking
On Friday 02 January 2009, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote about 'Re:
OT: laptop recomendations':
Don't blame Dell for the video being defective, in this case. The
culprit is NVidia, and all laptop makers are at their mercy.
The laptop in question (Inspiron E1505) has an Intel video card
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:49:43 -0200
Ismael Scalcon thesupermo...@gmail.com wrote:
That's why we recommend a netbook. It's light, small and the power
supply of my EEE 701 is smaller than my cell phone charger.
Like I said in my original post, it's an issue of screen and computing
power. I'm
That's why we recommend a netbook. It's light, small and the power
supply of my EEE 701 is smaller than my cell phone charger.
2008/12/14 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:48 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic
Thank in advance for your any advice or recommandation.
I would
On 12/14/08 09:34, Bernard wrote:
[snip]
Thanks for those hints. I will carry a bit more search into the vosotro
line. At the time I had purchased my old Thinkpad 600, it was bound to
be my main home personal computer, so I was prepared to pay the price
for something really good and nice for
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:48 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Micha Feigin wrote:
100% is too much for normal work, the battery has a better lifespan if you
limit it to 90% or so, but AFAIK this is only possible with (possibly
newer) thinkpads.
No, it is possible with every non-ancient real ThinkPad. And all new real
ThinkPads.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Daryl Styrk wrote:
My t61 always stops at 96%
You have set it to do that (maybe the last time when you ran Windows
and the battery life maximizer system decided you didn't really need
it at 100%.. it informed you of that, but you might not recall it),
and it will retain that
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:35 -0500
Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:39:26 -0200
Ismael Scalcon thesupermo...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Also, my girlfriend has bought herself an Acer Aspire (not the One),
and, so far, we had no problems with it.
I've been using an
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il writes:
Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under
charging. If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather
quickly. What I have on my current thinkpad is the ability to stop
charging before 100% and that can add quite a bit
On 12/12/2008 12:58 PM, tyler wrote:
How do you do this? I've got a thinkpad R60, and I've been plugging it
in when it runs low, then (when I remember), unplugging it when it
reaches full charge. Is there some way to automate this? I know the
Windows partition has some configuration options,
On 12/12/2008 05:58 AM, tyler wrote:
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il writes:
Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under
charging. If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather
quickly. What I have on my current thinkpad is the ability to stop
charging
Well, both my EEE Pc and my girlfriend's Aspire 4520 stop charging the
battery when 100% (the battery charging light turn off and the OS
energy manager just says Using AC instead of Charging. Both in my
EEE Pc Debian and My girlfriends Aspire Windows XP.
2008/12/12 Michael Shuler
Winfried Tilanus winfr...@tilanus.com writes:
On 12/12/2008 12:58 PM, tyler wrote:
How do you do this? I've got a thinkpad R60, and I've been plugging it
in when it runs low, then (when I remember), unplugging it when it
reaches full charge. Is there some way to automate this? I know the
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tyler wrote:
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il writes:
Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under
charging. If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather
quickly. What I have on my current thinkpad is the
Winfried Tilanus winfr...@tilanus.com writes:
Install the tp_smapi modules. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
for more information.
oops. I'm missing something. I just installed the tp-smapi packages for
my kernel, and according to the documentation on thinkwiki, I can set
the start
Hi,
skip
picked up a thinkpad T42 off lease, nice machine, everything works out
of the box. also have an acer aspire, amd, nvidia, everything worked
out of the box. alienware m9700, everything works except webcam.
About apire... No problems with hot keys? No problems with
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:20:03 +0200
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under charging. If
it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather quickly. What I have on
my current thinkpad is the ability to stop charging
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:12:47 -0200
Ismael Scalcon thesupermo...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, both my EEE Pc and my girlfriend's Aspire 4520 stop charging the
battery when 100% (the battery charging light turn off and the OS
energy manager just says Using AC instead of Charging. Both in my
EEE Pc
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:10:35 -0500
Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:20:03 +0200
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under charging.
If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:23:35 -0400
tyler tyler.sm...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:
Winfried Tilanus winfr...@tilanus.com writes:
Install the tp_smapi modules. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
for more information.
oops. I'm missing something. I just installed the tp-smapi packages for
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run
linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build
quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04 +0100
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run
linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a
2008/12/11 Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run
linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build
quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good
computing power
Micha Feigin wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run
linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build
quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good
computing power and a good screen at 15.4
Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: laptop recomendations
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 7:39 PM
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote:
Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at
the drivers (especially
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:08:14 +0100
Sjoerd Hardeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that
will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has
a good build quallity (will travel), descent
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:54:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
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Hi, I concur with the DELL idea. I have an Precision M60 3-years
Is that an answer or a signature?
'-- ' on a line of its own is a signature separator. If you really like
'--' as a separator line, just don't put the extra
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