Posts by compujas

I personally have Debian on an old desktop which currently operates as a very large, elaborate external hard drive case for my laptop. There are so many distros that it's hard to pick the best.

Try to avoid generic ram, you'll be much better off. I've purchased generic ram (not for my laptop) and it died in about a year, and of course generic only has a short warranty period. Look for better ram usually with a lifetime warranty.

They are both used to accomplish the same thing, connect to computers or routers, both can either be used to connect to other computers, or to connect to a router/switch to connect to the internet. One does it with wires, the other...

If you have a wireless router, all you have to do is turn the wireless card on in the laptop and tell it to connect to the router (give it the WEP key or any other details required) and it should work.

Rip the movies to the hard drive, get speedswitchxp (assuming you have WinXP) and set it to Max Battery when on Battery. That'll probably maximize your power.

It's not even mine, I have to give it back to the school when I graduate next semester since it's really not worth it to pay about $200 to keep the damn thing. But basically right now it's a big, bulky, expensive HDD Enclosure for my...

Not quite sure what you're asking, but that would be 15 Megabits/sec downstream, 2 Megabits/sec upstream (~1.875 MegaBytes/sec down, 250 KiloBytes/sec up), and as long as you have a 100 Megabit or higher network card, you can handle it. ...

far as i can tell it's safe and actually does work

Since it was helpful for me, I always try to remind people buying online to research their resellers too at resellerratings.com Don't get stuck with a crappy reseller that makes you pay for return shipping when they screwed up.

The CL56 (search these forums for more info) fits those requirements quite nicely, and so far mine is quite reliable and suits me very well as my sole computer for college.