Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-11-19 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 05:33:56PM -0700, Dag Richards wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: But really, those of you are telling him that are MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY. Oh time to help is it? Where to send the cheque? I'm sending $500 so we can get this done. Details are here in case anyone else

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Aaron Mason
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Brad Smith b...@comstyle.com wrote: Hi, I added an entry to want.html as I am looking for a laptop to replace the laptop I have at the moment which has some really bad heat related issues and I have been hobbling along with it for awhile now. I am in the

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 10/30/13 12:18, Aaron Mason wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Brad Smith b...@comstyle.com wrote: Hi, I added an entry to want.html as I am looking for a laptop to replace the laptop I have at the moment which has some really bad heat related issues and I have been hobbling along

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Ryan Freeman
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:04:42PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, On 10/30/13 12:18, Aaron Mason wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Brad Smith b...@comstyle.com wrote: Hi, I added an entry to want.html as I am looking for a laptop to replace the laptop I have at the moment which

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-10-30, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Is the fan functioning? If so, have you tried opening up the laptop and re-applying thermal grease to the CPU? If the laptop has a few years under its belt, the old grease could have perished. While this might give the machine a bit

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2013-10-30, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Is the fan functioning? If so, have you tried opening up the laptop and re-applying thermal grease to the CPU? If the laptop has a few years under its belt, the old grease could have perished. While this might give the machine

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-30 Thread Dag Richards
Theo de Raadt wrote: On 2013-10-30, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Is the fan functioning? If so, have you tried opening up the laptop and re-applying thermal grease to the CPU? If the laptop has a few years under its belt, the old grease could have perished. While this might

Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-10-29 Thread Brad Smith
Hi, I added an entry to want.html as I am looking for a laptop to replace the laptop I have at the moment which has some really bad heat related issues and I have been hobbling along with it for awhile now. I am in the Toronto area. I thought I would post to misc@ for some greater exposure.