Posts by compujas

Might I say that that has got to be the cleanest and neatest desk space in existence.

Could you be a bit more specific with the details? Ie. what type of adapter are you using, Did it come with the laptop, what type of connections are on the laptop, what are you connecting the adapter to on the laptop, on the tv, etc. ...

If you are going to format that partition anyway, most Linux Distros will allow you to format and repartition drives. Heck, even Windows installs allow you to repartition a drive. If you don't want to lose the data on that partition...

I'm also an engineering student and recently purchased my first laptop. In my opinion, I'd avoid the Celeron like the plague. You will most likely be running fairly intensive apps and what more power than the celeron can provide. ...

First thing after that, since you know that the install cd works (from the desktop test), get a LiveCD version of Linux (I would recommend Knoppix at http://www.knoppix.net). You don't need to know anything about Linux so don't worry. ...

Sorry to hear that, but welcome to the wonderful world of idiots that is Best Buy. One of the many reasons I refuse to shop there. Anyway, I agree with Martian, go for the model that they carry now for the same price. Hopefully they...

Just so you know, hard drives aren't formatted when they come from the store. You have to format them yourself. I've forgotten about this many times when installing new hard drives and wondering where they are. You say that you've...

A hum like that is most commonly attributed to poor grounding between the systems. My father had the same problem connecting his desktop to his stereo. It was significantly decreased when we grounded the two together (take a piece of...

I don't have a whole lot to compare to, but my CL56 (Chembook version) seems to be very solid. I occasionally hit corners of it on the wall while adjusting it on my lap and have yet to see any signs of problems. The keyboard is solid...

I wouldn't count on finding any capture cards capable of acting as a DTV tuner since the DTV tuners require decoding and access cards to function. HD capture cards may exist, or at worst not too far off on the horizon. You'll have to...