Posts by extremecarver

I have seen some wireless products from phillips for under 70€. Can't speak for their quality however. Here in France I get HDTV via my wifi card. Sucks that my laptop is not strong enough to get 1080i in properly however and completely...

Best is to use dscaler together with a SAA7134 PCI capture card. Just look that someone mentioned to have the card working if you don't know the tuner to check beforehand by installing 4.1.15 and having a look at the tuner list. If...

Well I didn't get what it told. It definitely did find windows and set it up correctly - however it didn't find out how to not set up grub in the mbr but leaving my old windows bootloader. In case it finds windows it should first - set...

Well I did indeed download the full CD, However when I tried to install the packages that include XFCE - the installation crashed. Worse even trying to install the driver repository. Indeed pacman doesn't seem to be difficult....

For me the only distribution which I got running without big probs is dapper drake. However I still havent succeded in patching the kernel with phc and undervolting it. I allways get errors upon make. I even installed KDE to use Kompile...

this is typical for linux it seems to me. Actually a distribution like dapper should have warnings for windows users like me - telling me how to set it up using windows standard os loader instead of installing grub.

GRR - F**K Arch - I just spend hours trying to set up Arch - why couldn't they tell me that once installed your let out in the middle of nowhere. If before installing you don't print out how to set up network and xfce with pacman -...

I don't think that core duo runs as long - as you can't undervolt it as good as the dothan. 0.9x vs 0.7 7200RPM disk would be faster for me - than a duo. However that depends on the tasks you do. I would take the one with the better...

When storing - store it in a cool place at 40% charge rate. Never store full (to high discharge) - Lower and you face the risk of complete uncharge and breaking the battery. After some years even with best care any battery will be...

oh it doesn't even play mp3 files out of the box - installing them is also kinda complicated - I feel a bit backwards like Win 3.1