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Skriven 2006-08-22 12:08:42 av Alan Zisman (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 20447 av JEAN PARROT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Power .
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:04:00 -0400, JEAN PARROT -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:

 JP>      Hello Alan, nice talking to you !

 JP>          I have been away for three days and it seems like I did not
 JP>     miss much. It seems that the summer season is captivating the
 JP>     persons here away from their keyboard. 22 messages to scan in three
 JP>     days is not much.

Dog days of summer... I've been spending almost all my time up at the new
Sechelt place, using the old HP notebook running Ubuntu Linux. It's
working nicely for my basic usage-- web browsing, some writing (using
OpenOffice), creating/editing webpages and ftp'ing them to my website... I
can listen to Internet radio on my favourite station (New Orleans'
WWOZ-FM). Even my wife is comfortable using it to check her email, etc.

One vote for desktop Linux-- after a little bit of a chore getting it set
up.

 JP>          How did you fare with your battery from PowerMag
? My SiL
 JP>     (sister) is quite happy with the one that I got for her Dell. I got
 JP>     hold of the old one to see if I could rebuild it and it would  be
 JP>     possible, the cells are all in pairs, // but they are strange ones,
 JP>     they are of 3.6v each and long ones, 2 3/4" I would estimate, for a
 JP>     total of   14.4v. I can not remember seeing these before. I will get
 JP>     on "Only Batteries" site and see if they are available.

This is the system with the new 3rd-party battery... I mostly use it
plugged in, but the battery seems to be fine. I haven't tested it to see
how long it takes to run it down to no charge (though I probably should!)
but since previously it had 0 minutes of battery life, anything will be an
improvement!

 JP>          My #2 daughter has parked her 8 year old Panasonic
Toughbook
 JP>     and got herself a Dell, dual core. What a machine ! There is so much
 JP>     bundled stuff on it and she has not yet "cleaned" it up. Lots of
 JP>     garbage. Home on it. No restore CDs, I think that it has gone the
 JP>     way of IBM and comes with a hidden restore partition.


I also bought a Core Duo Dell notebook in late June... nice, fast system.
I've got it dual-booting between the stock Win XP Home (though I formatted
and installed fresh to get rid of all the Dell junk) and the Win Vista
public beta. Vesta is interesting, and I was working with it a lot earlier
in the summer, but when I went back to XP Home, it seemed much faster,
smoother-running, and more stable-- that's what working with a beta is
like! Make sure your daughter checks whether she should be getting the
battery replaced under the recent recall-- I had opted for the
larger-capacity battery, and that doesn't seem to be on the recall list,
but 4.1 million (or so) are being replaced.

 JP>          Our stay in Kamouraska is drawing to its end, 9 days left
then
 JP>     back home. It has been gorgeous this summer.


We're going back to Vancouver tomorrow... Linda's flying off to Ottawa to
visit her ailing mother, and I'll start prepping for the new school year.
I was promised delivery of 18 Pentium 4s for the school 'sometime during
the summer'... it would be nice if they arrived and I can get a head-start
getting them set up the way I like.

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email Alan: alan (at) zisman (dot) ca
Alan's website: www.zisman.ca

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