Posts by RyanK

Hi abf, Have you considered trying out Kanotix? I used to be a Gentoo-kind of guy, compiling everything from source, etc. but didn't really notice any huge performance benefits after trying it for almost a year. So I jumped ship and...

seablade's idea is probably the quickest hack to get something acceptable up and running. Another possibility is to disable your sister from being able to access the wireless router (using MAC based filtering for example) and then force...

It would probably be a good idea to provide more information about the laptops. You can easily to this by running a LiveCD and then reading values from /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and running fdisk -l to get the laptop hard drive...

Thanks a lot for your help. I was looking for either something general or something HP specific, since I have the dv9000.

Hi, I was kind of interested in learning how to troubleshoot laptop / notebook troubleshooting and repair since I basically have a laptop with a warranty that's valid only in the States (and I'm currently outside the States) . Any...

You might also want to get some type of external storage - perhaps firewire - since your hard is kind of small.

Here are some cooling mats, etc. for Apples (http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/06/0724.html). I'm sure some of them will work with your notebook - perhaps the Ilap (http://www.raindesigninc.com/ilap.html)?

Get the biggest batter you can get your hands on (preferably a high-capacity battery as well). You could also try undervolting both your CPU and GPU and then setting them back to normal if you're going to do something CPU or GPU...

NEX_SASIN, I can't really help you since my internet connection is pretty sad (256K DSL). Also, I haven't tried this. I'm just telling you that it can work theoretically. For more informaiton on getting to work practically, check...

Wow. Sweet. cjcox, you have 4GB of RAM on your notebook? Quote: Originally Posted by cjcox Code: cjcox@leviathan:~> free -m total used free shared buffers ...