Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

David R. Litwin wrote: I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully downloaded, rebooting only for upgrades. I noticed no real

Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a Thinkpad (laptop). I now want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I can try some things out without ruining this setup (which took a lot of effort to get running). How do I go about doing that? The laptop can o

Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?

Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, my former Laptop had no internal WLAN card so I was safe that it is no source of any radio frequencies. But my new laptop has a cantrino chip with WLAN and I will go for a quite long flight. How can I ENSURE that the WLAN module is completely silent? Is it enough to use

Re: Digital Photos

Bill Moseley wrote: I know a few people here work with a digital camera. I'm often off with my camera and my laptop and I'm wondering how people manage their photo collections. What tools do you use to sync your laptop with your camera? I was using rsync, then I had a Perl program that uses Image

Re: Debian GNU/Linux (especially testing release) IBM laptop proposal

Ali Servet Donmez wrote: Hi there, I'm not so patient on how to recognize my hardware on Linux kernel based systems, specially a non-working installation makes me sick. So i'm about the change ny HP Compaq nx5000 (Windows pre-installed version) to a IBM Thinkpad. Here i'm writing down some required