Posts by compujas

Yeah, with debian you have to tell it what you want to install. After doing the initial install, you're left with enough to get you up and running, which is basically console and network support. It would seem that you have switched to...

Alt+A will apply it

Your laptop is outdated the day before you buy it. Technology moves on a logarithmic scale, ie. it grows exponentially, what took 10 years to develop 20 years ago, takes maybe a month now, and in 10 years from now, will take a day. ...

I'm an ME student, and I'm not sure what type of programs specifically you'll be using, but I use a CL56 for Pro/Engineer, Solidworks, and the like (primarily solid modeling with a bit of AutoCAD on the side) and it works perfectly fine...

The Cyberpower S4-2200 is a 15" SXGA+, it says right on their site. From that config, you should probably get roughly 2hrs of DVD watching, not sure about gaming, probably about 4hrs of low-power browsing type usage. For the CL56,...

sounds like it's a bad connection between the ports and the motherboard

yes, there's a cmos battery on the motherboard which holds your cmos settings (including time), how old is the laptop?

rpms means it spins faster, but a bigger hard drive means higher density so it will be able to read more in a smaller amount of space, it's a trade off

yeah, Raw is unpartitioned, you need to create a partition on it

did you repartition it to put a FAT/NTFS partition instead of the EXT/Swap/etc. partitions?