Posts by mr_et

I've had my laptop (5680) for almost a year and 8 months. There are signs of cracking in the usual places (near the hinges, a hairline crack to the left of the ON/OFF switch in the DJ console). So I took the effort to disassemble the...

Hi all! Does anyone experience some issue with using Macromedia's Flash plugin? On some flash programs, I get half of the screen. On others, it is normal. What gives? Kinda sucks to see half a player running. mr_et

I have not tried using VMWare, so I can't give my opinion of it. Alternatively, I'm using QEMU to run WinXP as a guest OS on top of Linux (host). So far, it seems to be stable despite lacking features (QEMU webpage has plus and...

All, I'm a proud owner of a NP5680, purchased back in late October as a gift for myself (plus the fact I'm going from a 7+ year old desktop (P133, 32MB RAM, 2MB Video) to this). I really haven't found a solution to getting the...