Posts by aliensinalaska

is it a dell brand card, or an intel one

You should not condition your battery by letting it drain completely. Most notebook batteries are Li-Ion batteries which lose capacity if they are completely drained. Quote: Guidelines to Prolonging Li-Ion Battery...

Does anyone know of a 64 bit windows version of firefox?

I agree that Ubuntu is a great distro for beginners. Apt-get is a really great tool to easily keep your system up to date, and to install new packages. If you are feeling adventurous, you can try my favorite distro, Gentoo. It is more...

you don't need a FAT32 partition to do something read-only in linux. Linux can read NTFS partitions fine, it just can't write to them

have you run xconfig to configure X?

How do I get my old shitty Com21 modem replaced? I've always thought that GCI was just a slow, overpriced ISP. I want 10mbs cable! How much do you pay?

Actually, upgradable RAM on graphics cards was available a while ago, the ATI Rage Pro used it (in the form of SGRAM) See the notebook-like RAM slot.

I could have sworn that I saw one at Costco last week. However, I think that each Costco carries different things; the Costco here in AK might not have the same things as on in Utah.

no problem