On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:35:03 -1000, "David Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I see that URL is on the Lenovo server. Having spent so much time looking >> for the diskette for myself I am curious how you did find it. > > Honestly, I can't remember. When I'm doing this kind of web search I kind > of zone out and let my fingers do the searching. It is usually faster for > me than trying to think things through consciously. > >> Is there a >> path you could describe that should have navigated me there? Even putting >> i7tm25us.exe in the search box brings 0 results. Teach a man to fish etc. > > I didn't bother looking on the Lenovo website, since the maintenance > diskette is not supposed to be for end users. I used a general search > engine (duckduckgo and/or google) on the file name i7tm23us.exe, found that > there were newer versions, and then merged the old ibm pcbbs website path to > the newest version with the Lenovo path > download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs... that seems to have replaced it > for most files. I had not heard of duckduckgo before, so thanks for that, and the magic ingredient seems to be already knowing the file name of the part I had been chasing. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
