Re: question concerning T42 and the IBM sale

2006-05-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 22:15 +0530, justin joseph wrote: > Thank you for your opinions, so I think the T42 is the one for me. > Thanks for your opinion. There is one last point I would like to > clarify. From the reply post I could not convincingly confirm that > the ATI Mobility RADEON 7500 has

Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Owen Heisler
I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... It would be really great if it was fully supported by the Linux kernel (maybe even video acceleration as well? Is there such a thing?), without all the annoying fiddling. Next, I don't know if it is really possible with laptops, but

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 02:17 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... > > get a Thinkpad.. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Okay, I wondered if I'

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 00:16 -0400, Philip Bellenoit wrote: > Sometimes bad experiences can be helpful. Here is mine. > > I bought a Compaq Presario V6000 laptop a fews weeks after it hit the > store shelves. It has a dual core AMD Turion64 processor. I thought I > would be a BIG SHOT shot and t

ThinkPads

2007-01-04 Thread Owen Heisler
Hi, perhaps this subject is worn out, but I have some questions about Thinkpads, the laptops of choice for Linux, for those of you who are familiar with them. It may not all be questions, some is comments to verify. Video acceleration: All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets... but I've h

Re: power management problems

2007-09-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.09.13 16:00, Damjan Vrencur wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info > > present: yes > > design capacity: 4800 mAh > > last full capacity: 1259 mAh > > Heh, my report is somehow even

Re: Windows license refund (Thanks for the great system)

2008-03-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2008.03.13, 073, Luis Motta Campos wrote: > Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Le 13 mars 08 à 11:31, Luis Motta Campos a écrit : > >> I would like to report a big success here. I recently got a HP 6710b > >> laptop and (as usual) didn't agreed with the Windows License terms and > >> conditions (