Posts by mtangolics

So has anyone attempted to acquire a 4cell optical bay battery for the CL56? I'm really interested in that. =)

I recently decided to reformat my windows partition on my CL56 and reinstall XP on it. One problem, when I inserted the XP CD and booted, it says "Setup is inspecting your hardware..." and then the screen goes black, the...

Like DDDa said.. linux is inherently more secure because it has user and group permissions that ACTUALLY WORK and are very secure. This usually negates the vulnerability to attack. Windows however has a horrible user/group options. ...

Cool fishtik, I can give you a hint for installing Gentoo with GCC 3.4 You need to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords file once you get your root partition mounted. (ie. /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/package.keywords) In that file.....

Some games are written natively for Linux, like UT2K4 and Doom III, but most are written for Windows exclusively and therefore require emulation to be run on Linux. Emulation inherently decreases the performance of any game, plus the...

I have a CL56 and I installed Gentoo on it as soon as I got it. For the most part things work fine. There's a couple issues however. - Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG does not have native drivers as of yet (I had no luck whatsoever...

I was perusing the Compal FTP server and I found this interesting little BIOS utility. It's called the COMPAL DMI String R/W Utility. Basically, it allows the user to easily change the manufacturer, product, serial number and UUID in...

Welcome to the club!

hm... maybe the choppiness was due to other factors.. I'll have to look into it. You don't leave your machine oc'ed I assume then rincewind?

We mostly played UT2K4... which was playable but a tad choppy on the highest settings (holy **** mode). I assume that was because I haven't done any overclocking yet. We also played Splinter Cell PT and C&C Generals. Btw: I'm...