Posts by barspi

yeah but i wanted it to be "on demand", not after a period. I finally used "nircmd monitor off" as a shortcut and assigned it to Ctrl-Alt-F10 and it works wonderfully I have a 2-year old Sager 4020. If I use the...

yesssssssss cool apps! thank you!

this may seem like a stupid question but I've been looking for ages for a utility that will turn off the screen on demand (hotkey combination) (Win XP-compatible) What I mean by "turn off" is exactly that, like when then sync...

what a coincidence!! I just installed kubuntu last night on my laptop (Sager 4020/Clevo D400S). I went ahead and gave it a try because it's only a single CD which has the basics. Then they have these repositories where you can...

I vote in FAVOR of some kind of forum to discuss cooling. Even if newer chips and chasis designs are cooler, there's also a race to make them faster and smaller and cramp more power in them. So heat will always be a problem for the...

What is this "sparkly" effect all of you are talking about? I feel at loss.... is it related to "glossy" screens or is it a a completely different thing?

There was a rumor a few days ago that Asustek might buy Clevo, but both companies said it wasn't true. Does anyone have more information about this? When there's a rumor, *something* is probably happening. Would this be good or...

Thanks to all for your replies. Some more finromation. I'm using MobileMeter to measure the temperature of CPU and HD. The average temperature of the HD seems to have raised maybe 2 to 3 degrees after I noticed the HD was doing...

I posted a similar message in another forum but I'll repeat it here because it has more traffic and I'm interested in the topic. Everybody talks about CPU heat problems, heat sinks, fans, noise, etc but they forget the hard disks. And...

Quote: Originally Posted by RedsManRick The 3790 I'm looking at is: 2.0 GHz P-M 1 stick of 512 333DDR RAM 128MB ATI RADEON 9700 60GB HD @ 5400 8x DVD+- combo drive w/ DVD+R DL 802.11 integrated...