Thanks for the details. They will be very helpful.
-- Larry
At 10:20 AM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
>I have a Compaq Presario 715US which I bought in April and now have dual
>boot WinXP / Redhat-8.0. Compaq/HP only supports WinXP on this machine,
>but I imagine all the hardware warranties are s
Thanks for the info on the Sony's. That was what I was hoping to avoid.
-- Larry
At 05:46 PM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Larry Ozeran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>[...]
>
>> eight Sony Vaio PCG-R505 models on the web site, but none
>> that I found availab
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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:09 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > NTFS writing is still unstable in Linux.
>
> It is. There have been two NTFS drivers for the 2.4 kernel series. The
> earlier one could made
Quoting Steven Peck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I would strongly advise that you avoid Sony Vaio laptops. They are
> amoung the most proprietary laptops in existance and even getting a
> different versions of Windows, then the one it came with, to work on
> them can prove incredibly difficult.
The ex
> -Original Message-
> From: Larry Ozeran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
> eight Sony Vaio PCG-R505 models on the web site, but none
> that I found available for sale.) I guess it's still caveat
> emptor and hope that the salesperson I ask questions about
> systems knows what they
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> NTFS writing is still unstable in Linux.
It is. There have been two NTFS drivers for the 2.4 kernel series. The
earlier one could made to enable write support, if you felt lucky, by
editing a switch in the source code and recompiling. (The requir
Thanks to everyone for all of your suggestions. :)
To clarify, I have _not_ bought the laptop yet. I was looking for questions
to ask before a purchase. You have supplied me with many, thank you.
I had not considered disk swapping. I had planned to store all dictations
on the windows partition, w
Larry,
Yep, my corporate lappy-top was dual-booted XP and Debian Woody prior to
the lame BIOS password turning it into a brick (with no recovery option,
per IBM's goal to make it 'theft-proof').
Just install XP first, then Linux. Make sure to tell LILO or Grub about
the NTFS (you *did* use NTFS,
Quoting ME ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> B4 u buy, check to see if others have had problems with your model
> laptop:
>
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
It's worth also knowing about the MobiliX site:
http://mobilix.org/
I list in one place what I think are the most-useful resources about
Linux hard
B4 u buy, check to see if others have had problems with your model laptop:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
Grab IRQ information and vendors for things like ethernet cards and model
numbers from windows if you have it.
Winmodem are a notorious problem - especially with laptops.
Grpahics card su
Hi all --
I want to create a demonstration system for speech recognition (dictation)
and open source medical office software. I need Dragon Dictate, which
requires Windows 2000 or XP, more than 256 MB RAM, and at least 800 Mhz
CPU. (ViaVoice for Linux is simply inadequate.) What I have read recent
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