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My New Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A80-117)
This weekend my old laptop has died. Fortunately, the hard drive survived, so I still have all my data and I don't have to reinstall and restore from backups. I couldn't read or answer emails this...
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(U)DMA On My Toshiba Satellite A80-117 [Update]
Sometimes funny things happen. I spent several hours yesterday, trying to figure out why my laptop is responding so darned slow. I suspected it had something to do with the hard drive and I found out...
View ArticleDraft: Debian GNU/Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A80-117
I intended to write up some sort of HOWTO for using the Toshiba Satellite A80-117 with Debian GNU/Linux for quite some time now, but I don't seem to get around to really finish it. So for now, I'll...
View ArticleDear Yorma's...
Dear Yorma's [1],why do you want to piss off your customers?The story/rant: /me walks into Yorma's cafe, as I missed my train and had to wait quite a while for the next one. I ask one of the clerks...
View ArticleWhy you should better not use Kensington Locks [Update]
This seems to be pretty old, but I only stumbled over it recently:Just in case you were considering buying a Kensington lock to secure your laptop while you're away... don't. Some lock picker from...
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One A110 mini-laptop with pre-installed Linux for 199.- plus Debian...
OK, so I've spent my last money on the One Mini A110 subnotebook recently. Yep, yet another ASUS Eee PC clone, but this one has the great benefit of costing only 199.- Euros and has similar specs as...
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Speed up Linux crypto operations on the One A110 laptop with VIA Padlock
OK, so I've been hacking on and testing my shiny new One A110 mini-laptop during the last few days and I must say I'm very happy with it. I'll write up some more details later (check the wiki if you're...
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Updates for the Starcraft-using-Wine article
Just FYI, I've updated my Playing Starcraft on Linux using Wine article from a few days ago, adding some more info about:Brood War installation.Multiplayer LAN games, firewall settings for network...
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Using Debian GNU/Linux on the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T40p
linlap.comI recently got a new (well, refurbished) laptop as a replacement for my old Toshiba A80-117 laptop which has more or less died. It's an IBM/Lenovo T40p laptop (model 2373-CG6), with an Intel...
View ArticleHow to run 65535 web servers on a single laptop
OK, so here's what crazy computer geeks come up with when they're bored of just sitting in the subway and staring out of the window.Web servers usually run on port 80. TCP/UDP ports range from 1 to...
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Using the HP Pavilion dv7-3127eg laptop with Debian GNU/Linux
Yep, so I bought a new laptop recently, my IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T40p was slowly getting really unbearably sloooow (Celeron 1.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM max). After comparing some models I set out to buy a certain...
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