Posts by dr/owned

64 bit isn't as much of a death sentence as it was 4 years ago since ppl with 4gb of RAM really have adopted it with open arms....and thereby hardware vendors have done so.

Unfortunately stuff like that is out of my area of expertise...i'm as far away from a road-warrior as one can get. Using a decent smartphone with some web apps like Hulu could be another option.

Ok I believe I have a more general linux problem. My ethernet card appears to get a new mac address after every reboot. So every time I reboot i get another eth*. The problem is that my ISP requires me to have a registered mac...

Yes 8.10 (as I found last night) is the first ubuntu distro to actually support broadcom....now to get it to work with my universities wep2 network.

HP battery check is always a little fishy...why would HP make a product that can only result in them having to shell out more money for battery repairs.

Goto the HP website and find your system's maint. manual. It shows how to get to the CPU...it's a bitch.

Agreed...probably not worth it.

You can always manually "Update" the drivers through the device manager and say "Have Disk"

Right click my computer....goto properties...it'll say 32-bit or 64-bit somewhere near the middle.

Nope...as a student I just throw it into my laptop-carrying-designed backpack. What you're talking about would offer nil protection.