On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:06 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:
At this point, I just hear a lot of disk spinning for MANY MANY
minutes... then the screen clears, and still more disk spinning... but
nothing appears to be happening... eventually, it all just stops.
I just installed Ubuntu (on a much
on old laptop - still trying...
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:06 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:
At this point, I just hear a lot of disk spinning for MANY MANY
minutes... then the screen clears, and still more disk spinning... but
nothing appears to be happening... eventually, it all just stops.
I just
I'm beginning to see the same thing... For example, I looked at the Xubuntu
kit, and it requires 128MB for a Hard Drive install.
Is that Xubuntu's RAM requirement or Drive requirement?
Yes, compare the minimums of each distro against what you've got, it's
easier than trying it.
--
Bill
RAM I've got 40MB, so I'm way below this requirement.
Ouch, I missed focusing on that number on your first message. That
tightens things significantly. That will be a problem for pretty much
any graphical desktop that isn't really lean.
DSL says 16MB 486 is ok. I don't know what else can work
I've got an old Gateway Solo 2100 laptop with 150 MHz
Pentium processor, 40MB RAM and 1.34 GB hard vdrive. It's been sitting in the corner
collecting dust, and still contains Windows-98. Some of my son's friends have decided to
learn Java this summer, so I was hoping I could install
solution. Most of the Linux install systems I've encountered load
from floppy to memory and then don't touch the FD again.
Another possibility is a network install. If the laptop has either
onboard Ethernet, or you have a PCMCIA Ethernet card you stick in it,
you should be able to boot from floppy
Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux distro, but I'd suspect it's not going
to perform nicely on an older laptop like that. There's a new
Xubuntu derivative that is using Xfce windowing for older hardware,
will supposedly give you the best of both worlds -- light weight
distro with the Ubuntu elan
Today's laptops have become obese. Two-thirds of their software is
used to manage the other third, which mostly does the same
functions nine different ways.
I'm not sure it's less true of the typical Linux system than a Windows
system.
I was in Boston yesterday for USENIX and I ran into
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 6/1/06, Richard A Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must say I agree with Ben, I did the same search through text books,
manuals when I was bored, just to see what was there, I think that is
missing in computer searches.
You've never wandered on
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop per Child, answers questions
on the initiative.
...
I liked this part:
Today's laptops have become obese. Two-thirds of their software is
used to manage the other third, which mostly does the same
functions nine different ways.
I'm
On 5/31/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess my point is that computers aren't a magic pill.Kids willlearn if their parents spend the time with them to teach them.Itseems increasingly more common that parents (in this country at least)take to some sort of electronic substitute for
it himself.
I appreciate your thoughts. My response, though, is to the attitude
that we *have* to get computers into the hands/laps of kids.
Especially those who are behind (like Benson's laptop for kids
program, for example). I have no problems with kids using computers.
Heck, I just put one
A number of years ago, the issue of requiring each student have a laptop at
a private school came up. While this is quite different from public schools
in the US and in third world countries, some of the arguments are still
very valid.
Back at that time, some of the teachers objected because
a key skill pretty unique to computers is learning through
searching and discovery vs memorizing
Jonathan
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On 6/1/06, Jonathan Linowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a key skill pretty unique to computers is learning through
searching and discovery vs memorizing
I disagree. Before computerized dictionaries came along, whenever I
went to search through a dictionary to look up a word, I almost always
, not because
they are kind, but because you are.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:33 PM
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge
On 6/1/06, Jonathan Linowes [EMAIL
On 6/1/06, Richard A Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must say I agree with Ben, I did the same search through text books,manuals when I was bored, just to see what was there, I think that ismissing in computer searches.You've never wandered on Google? Read a post followed some random links to
On 6/1/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/1/06, Richard A Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must say I agree with Ben, I did the same search through text books,
manuals when I was bored, just to see what was there, I think that is
missing in computer searches.
You've never wandered
are.
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On Behalf Of Tom Buskey
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:00
PM
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child
pledge
On 6/1/06, Richard A
Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I must say I agree with
Ben, I did
Jon maddog Hall wrote:
...
I am currently reading a book called Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed by Jared Diamond which shows how even some isolated societies
collapsed when they did not take into account the global picture. The way
of stopping illegal immigrants and to
Jeff Kinz wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:01:52PM -0400, Fred wrote:
...
The original design called for a hand crank but it was determined that
it would stress the frame too much. Current plans call for a foot
pedal to produce power. None of the power plans require more than
periodic
by the $100 laptop, no MS
Windows ...
You could run reader rabbit under wine, but then the wma files might
work too. :)
--
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail
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for my daughter being literate.
Of course, this is the daughter that likes Windows XP Home and fills
the harddrive with WMA soundfiles to my shame, so there is a downside
to Reader Rabbit. Which would be solved by the $100 laptop, no MS
Windows ...
I guess my point is that computers aren't
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add
would make them better at reading or math.
Please go see reader Rabbit or Math Blaster in action with kids
who are in Kindergarten through fourth grade. Then
://www.fcw.com/article90958-09-29-05-Web
A laptop for every student
BY Dibya Sarkar
Published on Sept. 29, 2005
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney wants every middle and high school
student in the state to get a laptop computer.
--
Seeya,
Paul
On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add
would make them better at reading or math.
Please go see reader Rabbit or Math Blaster in action with kids
who
. And with the typical power
consumption of laptop CPUs, that's a lot of hand cranking. And I don't see
how you can keep the costs down to $100 if you have to include solar cells.
The original design called for a hand crank but it was determined that
it would stress the frame too much. Current plans call
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:32:04PM -0400, Richard A Sharpe wrote:
I'd support this project if it were to get a laptop in every household in
the USA but third world I don't think so, let's start thinking about taking
care of our own first the rest of the world.
Mitt Romney has already
and keyboard are compromises. The cases are fragile and often have
proprietary form factors and parts, inhibiting inexpensive repairs. The
sole asset of a laptop is portability, which many college students have
found turns into a liability: they are one of the most stolen items on
campus.
Hi David
little resemblance to what most of us think of
when we hear laptop.
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:10:53AM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add
would make them better at reading or
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop per Child, answers questions
on the initiative.
What is the $100 Laptop, really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode
display- both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second
display option
Great reading for people who think laptops are too expensive or will
break or will need electricity
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/OLPC_myths
--
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail
at this line:
In one Cambodian village where we have been working, there is no
electricity, thus the laptop is, among other things, the brightest light
source in the home.
Question: Does Cambodia really need to be spending its money on cheap but
durable laptops imported from Taiwan
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:41:34PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
In reading the posted FAQ I was amazed at this line:
In one Cambodian village where we have been working, there is no
electricity, thus the laptop is, among other things, the brightest light
source in the home.
So
is the cost of the equipment (the laptop). If
you only have one book, that means your book cost whatever the laptop
cost -- which is about $130, I guess. That's an expensive textbook,
even by US college standards. It isn't until you start having a few
dozen texts on a single laptop that you start
Or would the country's money be better spent buying the cheapest
books possible (which could be produced in-country) and the difference
invested in an electrical infrastructure?
Since the difference would be zero dollars (it would actually cost MORE
to provide the same texts in
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:35:20PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
This fundamentally is an area of economics. We've seen that all vibrant
economies since WWII have used exports to generate wealth. Japan, Germany,
the Asian tigers, Chile, China, etc. have all used exports to grow while
pretty naive to think that laptop
wouldn't be used primarily as a source of light in that Cambodian
household -- or more likely just sold for cash.
But somewhere like Mexico or some second world country that laptop could
achieve its intended purpose.
And here in the US, the OLPC might -- hey
and second world countries.
Frankly, as Ben stated, I think it's pretty naive to think that laptop
wouldn't be used primarily as a source of light in that Cambodian
household
They are hoping it will be.
Thats one of the reasons its less likely to be sold for cash :)
-- or more likely
On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And here in the US, the OLPC might -- hey, I said might! -- work to
establish an affordable, de facto EdTech standard and break schools out of
the marketing-driven/gee-whiz/gadget-minded mode that they've been in
forever.
No chance of that I'm
, this is the daughter that likes Windows XP Home and fills
the harddrive with WMA soundfiles to my shame, so there is a downside
to Reader Rabbit. Which would be solved by the $100 laptop, no MS
Windows ...
--
Bill
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are compromises. The cases are fragile and often have
proprietary form factors and parts, inhibiting inexpensive
repairs. The
sole asset of a laptop is portability, which many college students
have
found turns into a liability: they are one of the most stolen items on
campus.
The laptops
I agree about the laptops, they are not very upgradeable. I have for years
been recycling used desktop PC's to places like Child and Family services,
church groups and anyone who could not afford a pc. My objection to the
laptop program was that they were going out of the country; take care
-powered calculators sold at dollar stores.
These might deliver much more educational bang for the buck than a crippled
laptop costing between $100 and $300 as projected.
As for other functions covered by laptops, cheap cell-phone service is
spreading rapidly in developing countries. Text messaging
The laptops of the MIT project don't have a lot of resemblance to the
disposable, fragile, overpowered 1st-world toys you find for sale at
the big box stores. Their design criteria lead them to choose the
laptop form factor. I haven't followed the project in detail, but I'd
suspect there were
I'd support this project if it were to get a laptop in every household in
the USA but third world I don't think so, let's start thinking about taking
care of our own first the rest of the world.
Rich
Richard A Sharpe
8 Meadowview Lane
Merrimack, NH 03054
Treat everyone with politeness, even
proprietary form factors and parts, inhibiting inexpensive repairs. The
sole asset of a laptop is portability, which many college students have
found turns into a liability: they are one of the most stolen items on
campus.
IMHO, this laptop promotion is being done for reasons other than the benefit
Paul Lussier writes:
Right. Benson, crazy though he is, was foolish enough to think we
should take care of people in our country before helping other
countries people who can't read and write. That whole Charity begins
at home thing is just so, well, un-PC :)
Gosh, when you put it that
Bill McGonigle wrote:
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to
buy a $100 OLPC laptop:
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
I've been told that this pledge project is not directly affiliated with
the OLPC project, and that the OLPC laptops are not available
will be limited to whatever content and software their respective
governments will allow to be installed on those PCs.
Oh, and unless these PCs can be run with a hand crank or solar cells, still
pretty useless in many parts of the world. And with the typical power
consumption of laptop CPUs, that's
difference -- unless it can connect to the Internet.
The MIT folks realize that. They designed them with the 3rd world environment in mind.
Each laptop shares it's wireless connection with other laptops in
range, so the laptops nearest the one network link at the school repeat
it down the street
. And with the typical power
consumption of laptop CPUs, that's a lot of hand cranking. And I don't see
how you can keep the costs down to $100 if you have to include solar cells.
Hand cranks or other similar alternative power options have always been
the plan for the $100 OLPC laptops
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buy
a $100 OLPC laptop:
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
The idea is that your $300 purchase funds two additional laptops in the
field. Even $300 seems like a pretty good deal on the hardware, though
it probably won't
On 5/25/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buy
a $100 OLPC laptop:
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
The idea is that your $300 purchase funds two additional laptops in the
field. Even $300 seems like a pretty
On 5/25/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or addwould make them better at reading or math.Hmm.. I have a 2.5 year old at home. He's been playing with mommy's laptop since 18 months or so. At Xmas we got a PC in the living
I pledge at least 100$ to the laptop.. But the kid will probrably be me. Heck! Playing with a 100$ laptop in my livingroom helps a a child read AND write.. ME! :-) Thomas
On 5/25/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buya
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
8) He can entertain himself w/o needing mommy or daddy.
I've got an almost 4 year old who's been doing that since pretty much
day one, and has never really played with the computers in the house
or watch TV.
Is a computer needed? Maybe not. But he makes
Alternatively, you can run Knoppix from the Windows commandline if the ISO is saved on the NTFS.
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1515258from=rss
-- Bill[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 10 April 2006 4:29 pm, Richard Soule wrote:
Add me to the VMWare crowd. I use it every time I do a demo. My laptop
came from Oracle with WinXP on it, I run Linux, WinXP and Win2K Server
VMs depending on which demo I want to run.
I am planning on running Xen (SuSE 10.0 or 10.1) on my
license may expire in the future)
For both, the VMs consume a lot of memory. Both my laptops are maxxed out
at 2GB.
Disk Space is also important for VMs, if you want to keep historical
copies, multiple versions, etc. I picked up a 160GB high performance and
silent seagate laptop drive from newegg
On 4/11/06, Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Both products have betas that can be downloaded and used for no cost
(although the no-cost license may expire in the future)
Given that Virtual PC is a Microsoft product now, you can replace
may with will for that product.
-- Ben
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home hobby), and I'd like to be
able to toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot.
Anyone doing this? What VM
to the internet with
windows at all this way. Helps with security.
Kjel
On Monday 10 April 2006 12:39 pm, Ted Roche wrote:
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home
I'm running VmWare and have always been happy with it. Over time the
workstation version has gotten progressively more powerful. For example I'm
currently running VmWare on a Windows X64 (64bit) host laptop. The guest OS
is a 64 bit Ubuntu system. With VmWare I can forget about the problems I
On 4/10/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home hobby), and I'd like to be
able to toggle between the two rather than
to the internet with
windows at all this way. Helps with security.
Kjel
On Monday 10 April 2006 12:39 pm, Ted Roche wrote:
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home
Add me to the VMWare crowd. I use it every time I do a demo. My laptop
came from Oracle with WinXP on it, I run Linux, WinXP and Win2K Server
VMs depending on which demo I want to run.
Sometimes running the WinXP VM with Oracle EE database, Oracle EE
Application Server, Oracle BPEL Server
Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howdy all,
I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as a
traveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I will
need it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices
Benjamin Scott writes:
And they still haven't figured out how to release a proper Windoze
drivers (one that doesn't have syntax violations for the RIS INF
parser).
What's that? (RIS INF parser)
Goggling this tells me that it is some sort of Remote Installation
Service, but more than that I
Howdy all,
I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as a
traveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I will
need it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices.
The system is going to serve DHCP and tftp to wireless
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy all,
I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as a
traveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I will
need it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices
On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
All suggestions are welcome. I'm currently looking at
http://www.emperorlinux.com for pre-installed linux laptops, but if a
thinkpad/dell/gateway/whatever is best, then that's what I'll go with
There's a tradeoff between what you're
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:32:52 -0400
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ThinkPads caught my eye,
as we're been very happy with them in the office for the past couple
of years. They seem to be pretty rugged.
Same here. Almost daily trips to client sites, three (four??)
years now.
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:39 -0400, David Ecklein wrote:
FWIW - A client brought in a Dell Inspiron 5160 that was hammered by a
virus - I cleared the HD, loaded only her WinXP and Norton Internet
Security - nothing else. This 2.8Gb-P4-256MB doorstop ran like a snail! I
was embarrassed to
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy all,I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as atraveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I willneed it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices.The system
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Subject: Re: Laptop Suggestions
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy all,
I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up
value in a rugged
laptop to be had, but there's no PCMCIA slot (note: the 12 'Powerbook'
is really a full-metal-jacketed iBook, so don't look there either).
-Bill
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You'd have to get a PCMCIA wireless card if you go that route
because the Apple Airport Extreme is a Broadcom chipset, and
Broadcom doesn't play well with Open Source.
The butthead mentality appears to be dominant at Broadcom,
doesn't it?
I've got an HP zd7000 series machine that's pretty
Michael ODonnell wrote:
You'd have to get a PCMCIA wireless card if you go that route
because the Apple Airport Extreme is a Broadcom chipset, and
Broadcom doesn't play well with Open Source.
The butthead mentality appears to be dominant at Broadcom,
doesn't it?
I've got an HP zd7000
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Yellow Dog Linux or Fedora Core 4 PPC or SuSE PPC might also be a
candidate.
Ubuntu, also. I've downloaded and played with their LiveCD on an iMac
and it was pretty slick.
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I've had excellent results with FC on Thinkpads lately. Both on my older
X20 (which recently died) and on my current T42. The t42 has built-in
blootooth, wifi, NIC, 1400x1050 screen (yeah, odd resolution), etc. All
supported very nicely under FC3. As well as dual-head support (laptop LCD
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as a
traveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I will
need it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices.
I have
On Aug 24 at 5:20pm, Dan Jenkins wrote:
... Apple Airport Extreme is a Broadcom chipset, and Broadcom doesn't
play well with Open Source.
The butthead mentality appears to be dominant at Broadcom, doesn't it?
... companies where that butthead mentality reigns
(Broadcom being just one example)
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk and
offloading the data to a network share? Or is the laptop itself dead?
-N
My brother's laptop HD is dying.. Anybody have a 2.5 to 3.5 HD adapter
so I can save the day and get the data off the drive
Ohhh, that's a good idea.
The drive is starting to click, and being the typical computer user, he
has no backups.. It doesn't click often so there is probably hope to get
most of the stuff off before it totally dies off.
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk
his books for his business on it.
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk and
offloading the data to a network share? Or is the laptop itself dead?
-N
My brother's laptop HD is dying.. Anybody have a 2.5 to 3.5 HD adapter
so I can save the day and get the data off
On 5/23/05, Peter Dobratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was given a Toshiba 105cs laptop. Specs:
Pentium 75 Mhz
500 MB HDD
8 MB RAM
1 3.5 inch floppy
I believe this laptop had windows 95 on it originally, but the hard
drive has been formatted fat32. This does have 2 PCMCIA (type II
I was given a Toshiba 105cs laptop. Specs:
Pentium 75 Mhz
500 MB HDD
8 MB RAM
1 3.5 inch floppy
I believe this laptop had windows 95 on it originally, but the hard
drive has been formatted fat32. This does have 2 PCMCIA (type II)
slots. We want to use this computer mainly for some word
On May 23, 2005, at 19:16, Peter Dobratz wrote:
Are there any Linux distributions that can be installed from a
floppy/network configuration that will install with 8 MB of RAM?
Maybe - check out Deli Linux
http://www.delilinux.de/#about
You'd want the lowmem.dsk boot floppy. I'd like to
On May 23 at 7:16pm, Peter Dobratz wrote:
We want to use this computer mainly for some word processing, so I thought
that it would be good to install linux on it.
Well, define what you mean by word processing. Are we talking OpenOffice
or some other feature-rich, GUI package with all the
Anybody got a laptop hard drive (slim one) that they are willing to part with.
I got a Inspiron 4100 that works great, except the HD is toast. I'm actually
on it now (Ubuntu LiveCD).
I'll take just about anything since it's just a spare machine, but bigger is
always better.
I was suprised how
On Apr 24, 2005, at 18:03, Fred wrote:
The
Averatec ships with XP home, but the CDs will only allow you to install
XP to factory conditions without the ability to partition the drive --
must be standard to do it that way these days, and completely useless
to
me in any case.
You can get a live CD
Jon maddog Hall wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Once there, I tried out a number of laptops on display with Linux. Some
worked, some didn't.
Since you were by default using the 2.4 kernel, some of the laptops that
failed may have worked with the 2.6 kernel. Did you try 2.6 on all
of them, or only
.
Overall, I am pleased with the Averatec 6240. I am waiting with bated
breath, though, for a SiS video driver for the 64-bit Linux. In the
meantime, I am wondering if it is possible to modify the VESA driver to
give me the 1280x800 mode. Any ideas are welcome.
-Fred
You may want to look at the
Thought I'd share this with all.
My aging Sony Vaio laptop bit the proverbial dust recently. Something to
do with the connectors for the RAM cards, and would cost way too much to
fix -- $600 I am told, and all Sony will do with it is swap out the
board for another. Well, for just twice that price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Once there, I tried out a number of laptops on display with Linux. Some
worked, some didn't.
Since you were by default using the 2.4 kernel, some of the laptops that
failed may have worked with the 2.6 kernel. Did you try 2.6 on all
of them, or only on the Averatec
of what's that, I don't show that), but by doing some
googling, found out it appears to be the standard connector
for their laptops. Any ideas where to get one, or does
anyone have a dead Dell laptop I can extract it from?
Maybe help turn a dead laptop into parts for several
laptops if a number of us
On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
I know those things are packing a lot of power conversion in a
small space (many modern laptops draw 90 watts or more), and they're
generally made by the lowest bidder
In fact, several of the recalls involved the *same* lowest bidder.
Seems they had
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:29:23 -0500, Michael ODonnell
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Fire hazard! I have an Inspiron 7500 with one of the
affected units (I always did think it got a little
toasty) ...
I've seen recall notices, at one time or another, for laptop power
bricks from Dell, HP, IBM
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