[opensuse] Re: hard drive pause when moving a laptop
Brian K. White wrote:
It's a Thinkpad, you can probably hammer nails with it. Then again...
It's a Thinkpad, it was so expensive you probably want to encase it in thick foam with silk lining and guarded by a large dog every time you turn it off.
Well, quite the other way round, IMHO: I spend the money for Thinkpads *because* they are stable systems and I do _not_ need to put them into silk lining. They are work horses, and good at it. (Lenovo just should start to produce one 15" variant again without that f"§$%ing wide screen. I don't watch TV or DVDs, I work with that damn ding, and for that I want more screen height!) I've got 6 of them, starting with the Butterfly, aka CS701 -- which is from 1996 -- and still runs(!) -- Linux of course, although an older Slackware distribution, current SUSE is much too large for it. Boys, the pains and struggles to get Linux running on a laptop in 1997, you won't even know about it. We're in heaven right now... Though this is for work. If I would pay these prices for a private laptop, I don't know; I've never bought a laptop privately. :-) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I've got 6 of them, starting with the Butterfly, aka CS701 -- which is from 1996 -- and still runs(!) -- Linux of course, although an older Slackware distribution, current SUSE is much too large for it. Boys, the pains and struggles to get Linux running on a laptop in 1997, you won't even know about it. We're in heaven right now...
I once installed linux onto a 5M 386sx-16 GRiD that some nearby government office threw out a pair of. I was only able to get 5M was by robbing 2M from one to add to the other. They had 640x480 mono lcd screens and HD was something like 20 or 40M with DOS and even windows 3.1 beleive it or not. I used a tomsrtbt floppy to install and basically just left it at that, a tomsrtbt hd install heh! I was able to set up dual boot without destroying the original dos/win via scandisk, defrag, fips, fdisk, mkfs, lilo. Made myself a plip cable and got networking via plip! That was one solid machine. I heard stories about them being dropped and bouncing down cement fire escape stairwells while open and running and not suffering any harm, and I can beleive it. The screen was rigid alloy and braced in the middle by the odd way it opened. I wish I hadn't decided to install a 486sx upgrade chip. It never ran reliably after that for more than a few minutes after startup. Probably heat. There was no room to put any kind of heat sink on the cpu. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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