Re: Reconditioned Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread Robert Huff
Predrag Punosevac writes: ThinkPads are the highest quality machines. I honestly thing that there is nothing on the market which matches their quality including Apple laptops. /Caveat emptor/. I'm hearing reports from those who deal with laptops much more that I do that quality

Re: Reconditioned Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread DAve
Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: ThinkPads are the highest quality machines. I honestly thing that there is nothing on the market which matches their quality including Apple laptops. /Caveat emptor/. I'm hearing reports from those who deal with laptops much more that

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
. By the by, has anyone tried FreeBSD on one of those little Asus EEEpc sublaptops? A real, tiny, i386 laptop for $300 (plus maybe a bit more for an additional SD card to bump the storage some) seems like a truly awesome deal. I bought an Eee PC, but haven't tried any other software on it yet

Re: Reconditioned Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: ThinkPads are the highest quality machines. I honestly thing that there is nothing on the market which matches their quality including Apple laptops. /Caveat emptor/. I'm hearing reports from those who deal with laptops much

RE: Reconditioned Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dhaneshk k Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:50 PM To: Wojciech Puchar; Predrag Punosevac Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reconditioned Laptop advice People : I want to bu a laptop

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Joe Demeny
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:04:17 am Jason P. Thomas wrote: Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny wrote: In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to take the FreeBSD CD to the brick-and-mortar store... Or you could purchase an Apple Mac Book and have a commercially supported Unix pre-installed. Guess that would take all the fun

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
pre-installed. Guess that would take all the fun out of it? While I like Mac products and OSX is pretty cool, I still find their laptops a bit pricey. By the by, has anyone tried FreeBSD on one of those little Asus EEEpc sublaptops? A real, tiny, i386 laptop for $300 (plus maybe a bit more

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Jeays
? A real, tiny, i386 laptop for $300 (plus maybe a bit more for an additional SD card to bump the storage some) seems like a truly awesome deal. ___ _ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Mac products and OSX is pretty cool, I still find their laptops a bit pricey. By the by, has anyone tried FreeBSD on one of those little Asus EEEpc sublaptops? A real, tiny, i386 laptop for $300 (plus maybe a bit more for an additional SD card to bump the storage some) seems like a truly awesome

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would get ThinkPad T30 or T23 from Ebay. They will work just fine with FreeBSD. They go for $190-250. my T23 works fine. all devices, no problems, any OS including FreeBSD of course ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Laptop advice

2008-03-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:48 PM To: Derek Ragona Cc: Joe Demeny; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop advice On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:56

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 12:29:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt escribió: Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs that use different names than industry standard for the components, so it is difficult to figure this out in advance. What you want to do

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-24 Thread Jason P. Thomas
Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-24 Thread Outback Dingo
and BSD fine. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 12:29:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt escribió: Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs that use different names than industry standard

Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Kemian Dang
Dear all, I have a Compaq laptop running FB7 stable. When I use battery, the system becomes very slow, there are even lag of the cursor. The load average would be 1 - 2, while the idle CPU is 99.0%. It would not change even I plug the ac power later. But if I reboot the machine whit ac power

Re: Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi just a shoot into the dark, but did you set debug.cpufreq.lowest=1000 in /etc/sysctl.conf? 1000 MHz is the lowest (usable) frequency of my laptop. Cheers, Olier Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have a Compaq laptop running FB7 stable. When I use battery, the system

Re: Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Kemian Dang
5000/-1 3750/-1 2500/-1 1250/-1 Any ideas, thanks. Best wishes, Kemian On 23/03/2008, Oliver Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi just a shoot into the dark, but did you set debug.cpufreq.lowest=1000 in /etc/sysctl.conf? 1000 MHz is the lowest (usable) frequency of my laptop. Cheers

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-23 Thread Fred C
On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone

Does ATT laptop connect card work with FreeBSD 7.0?

2008-03-22 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm considering using an ATT laptop connect card, but I don't know if it's supported by FreeBSD. Is anyone using this? Does anyone know how it compares speed-wise with cable broadband, such as InsightBB? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Joe Demeny
I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? -- Joe Demeny

start/stop network services on a Laptop

2008-03-21 Thread michel Junger
Hello, First, my question: Is there a standard way to boot without network services and then to start them all later ? Second, the situation: I've got a laptop running FreeBSD 7 fine. By default it boots without enabling network interface, later I manually run /etc/rc.d/netif start ath0

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Colin Brace
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joe Demeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 Read the user comments carefully. For this laptop, you'll find, for example: --- Cons: RTL8187B

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions

unattaching the power cable cause laptop could not shutdown

2008-02-02 Thread Kemian Dang
Hi, there. I am running FB7-rc1 on a HP/Compaq laptop. I find if I unplug the power cable and let it use the battery, it will become slow, and recover when plug in the power cable. But when I shutdown the computer, it will halt on the first stage and can not be shutdown. I think it maybe the ACPI

Re: unattaching the power cable cause laptop could not shutdown

2008-02-02 Thread Mel
On Saturday 02 February 2008 23:51:01 Kemian Dang wrote: I am running FB7-rc1 on a HP/Compaq laptop. I find if I unplug the power cable and let it use the battery, it will become slow, and recover when plug in the power cable. That's a feature, not a bug. The cpu frequency scales, see cpufreq

Re: unattaching the power cable cause laptop could not shutdown

2008-02-02 Thread Kemian Dang
. Kemian On 02/02/2008, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2008 23:51:01 Kemian Dang wrote: I am running FB7-rc1 on a HP/Compaq laptop. I find if I unplug the power cable and let it use the battery, it will become slow, and recover when plug in the power cable. That's

Two minute pause at acpi.ko message on old HP laptop with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Xn Nooby
I have an old zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop, essentially the zv5000 model, which pauses at the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko message during boot. It hangs there, with a non-spinning ASCII character, for about 2 minutes - then it boots. I tried entering the following commands in to the loader.conf

Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)

2008-01-04 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Hi, I am trying to install Free BSD on my Laptop, The boot disk is not detecting my HDD, i am using FUJITSU HDD 80GB, Y? Some junk text is moving from bottom to top, Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)

2007-12-24 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/12/2007 02:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop withdual boot?) [EMAIL

Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)

2007-12-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks… After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-21 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Subject:Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-18 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/2007 08:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. Please help me ASAP Cheers, B.Manikandan UK

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:32:11PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. I'm going

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-04 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
on my laptop with dual boot? On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You

Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers

Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
: Subject:Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Chess Griffin
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology SNIP Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:57:25PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). That was a typo. I meant to type T42p

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:42:11PM +0545, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: But since you mentioned that the primarily use of this laptop will be for gaming purposes, I don't think that FreeBSD is the right OS for this stuff. Of course, I could be wrong because I don't play games on my FreeBSD

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
source drivers, which may reverse that trend in the future. My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). If you want to be a little more adventurous, you could

laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM
Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use

Re: laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking

Re: laptop

2007-12-02 Thread James A. Harrison
Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I

Re: laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Chess Griffin
* Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-02 10:04:41]: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I

Re: laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Predrag Punosevac
James A. Harrison wrote: Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use

Re: laptop

2007-12-02 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi James, Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows

RE: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:07 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child [Ted Mittelstaedt's words, heavily edited for brevity. Ted, please shout

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-19 Thread Jonathan McKeown
to be failing. IMHO what these kids need are connections to the Internet and the knowledge store on the Internet, not a laptop. What a laptop that isn't networked to the Internet is going to do to help them I cannot guess. The idea of this project seems to have been to just dump a lot of laptops

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-19 Thread Chuck Robey
Gee, I thought that this had gone away. PLEASE send this off to FreeBSD-chat, it has no business on FreeBSD-questions whatever. Jonathan McKeown wrote: [Ted Mittelstaedt's words, heavily edited for brevity. Ted, please shout if I haven't caught the sense of what you're saying]

RE: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beech Rintoul Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Olivier Nicole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child On Sunday 11 November 2007, Olivier

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:31:14AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: You're aware that by offering your opinion while chastising people for doing likewise, you're contributing to the topic you're chastising, right? Actually . . . I thought the points were made well. I think perhaps you have a

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Rob
I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ I have to agree with many posters, this project is the most

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Rob wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ I have to agree with many posters, this project

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread usleepless
On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
. Indeed. Putting aside any ignorance or bigotry regarding whether or not other than rich countries' kids should have access to computers and IT, surely the on-topic issue is Can we run FreeBSD on the OLPC laptop? From what I've been able to quickly discover about the machine's specs: http

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
/ That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... Olivier From what I've been reading they are addressing this issue. One way

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:55:01PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha FreeBSD Users I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Marella
. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... Olivier http://www.newsweek.com/id/41724

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... You ought to actually _visit_ one or more of the schools that have practical computers for the kids. At least in my own

[OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any computers for kids deal, because it only benefits big computer companies, who

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... You ought to actually _visit_ one or more of the schools that have practical computers for the kids. At least in my own

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Bahman M.
/ That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... I second the idea. No doubt that OLPC is a great effort but I wonder how such ideas will be useful

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007, Pollywog wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any computers for kids deal, because it only

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Pollywog wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any computers for kids deal, because it only benefits big computer

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Huff
Bahman M. writes: On 2007-11-12 Olivier Nicole wrote: That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... I second the idea

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Marella
will grow up and help change that country. As someone else stated, It's my money. I have completed the give one, get one order form. I hope my laptop is sent to a worthy child but if not so be it. I have not decided what to do with the one that I receive. My grand daughter is only 3 and I think

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
/ That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... You ought to actually _visit_ one or more of the schools that have practical computers for the kids

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Vermillion
The door open and in walked trouble - disguised as our our old nemesis [EMAIL PROTECTED], who uttered, at Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 21:37 : Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:30:46 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child To: Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [edited

Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Graham Bentley
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One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-11 Thread Robert Marella
Aloha FreeBSD Users I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ Have a very good day Robert

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some cases... Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-11 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
I know this is off topic... That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt this is the most needed thing to provide education. You are correct sometimes it isn't the most important thing. However, in many, many cases it is. As with any aid project, it needs to form part of

how to enable touchpad for DELL Latitude 100L laptop

2007-10-19 Thread Jin Guojun
Installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a DELL Latitude 100L laptop but cannot get its touchpad configured. By searching the handbook, it looks like PSM is the device for the touchpad, so enabled verbose during the boot and see some errors for psm0: kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0:current command

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:12:44AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:24:55PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have installed FreeBSd on IBM/Lenova and Dell with little problem. But, I wonder if anyone here has had any dealings with a nice little notebook from a Japanese

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/25/07, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used continuously from August 1999 through March 2007 when I got a Mac Powerbook (now if only I could run OS X on a Thinkpad :-). We have

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Emanuel Marufo
Asus is the best for me, in my case Asus A6JC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread ronggui
Asus works well too. 2007/9/25, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:24:55PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have installed FreeBSd on IBM/Lenova and Dell with little problem. But, I wonder if anyone here has had any dealings with a nice little notebook from a Japanese company called 'Kojinsha'. I saw them the last time I was in Japan, of

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: We have used Thinkpads for a long time. I am currently using a T60. Never had any problems. I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used continuously from August 1999 through March

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Johnson
I've been happy with FBSD on Dell Inspirons, although the newest I've used it on is an 8600 (it's what I'm using now). Some things have been problems (e.g. on the 7500 the sound input never had a driver, on the 8600 it took a while to find a driver that would make a working NDIS driver for the

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-25 Thread Jack Barnett
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: We have used Thinkpads for a long time. I am currently using a T60. Never had any problems. I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-25 Thread OutBackDingo
Also IBM Z series, like my Z60M Runs 6, and 7 CURRENT really well On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:05 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally

anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Franks
The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used in the 1GHz+ range. I have a compaq that is %#*!^$. The pcmcia

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used in the 1GHz+ range. I have a compaq

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Dmitry Gorbik
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:00:33 -0700 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used in the 1GHz+ range. my IBM T23 works perfect with FreeBSD

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Hakan K
IBM Thinkpad, Sony Vaio Hakan http://dominor.com On 9/24/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:00 PMSep 24, 2007, Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 24 September 2007 13:00:33 Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, I am using Acer TravelMate 4060 and I am very satisfied. The wireless card works very well and I had no problems with the video card. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used in the 1GHz+ range. Thinkpads here too

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Mark Price
I also use an Acer TravelMate, I think it is 4000 something and it works well. -- Mark Price http://www.rootbsd.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:05:28AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm

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