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  1. Re:I'm not a big Dell fan... by cerberusss · · Score: 1 · on Dell's Exploding Laptop Autopsy

    Well, in the past Dell hasn't always been so cool. Dell's laptop Latitude D600 had the harddisk located under the laptop its left palm area. It got hot, VERY hot. Dell never acknowledged this problem although lots of people suffered. See here or just search Google.

  2. No ad revenues? by atlacatl · · Score: 1 · on Google News Leaves Beta

    A couple of days ago, I wrote that google news was in permanent "beta" because they couldn't make money off of it--I was wrong on that account: they made it un-beta even without the possible cash inflow.

    From all points of view, It's a good model:
    1. Index all news
    2. ?
    3. Profit...

  3. Job offer??? by atlacatl · · Score: 1 · on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft
    C'mon...The email wasn't a job offer - It was an invitation to talk to an HR dude - Nothing more.

    I think everyone with a resume on the web gets the M$ invitation to talk an HR guy.

    This is my story: http://www.josesandoval.com/2005/01/penskee-materi al-microsoft-way.html

    And this was part of the templated email I received:
    • ...number of hiring managers in the Office SharePoint Server, Windows Search, Content Management Server and Project Management Server teams [Had seen my resume and that] one, or as many as all, of these teams and their hiring managers have expressed an interest in contacting you [me] regarding positions at Microsoft that might map well to your experience and qualifications.
    A bit presumptuous, no? And very harsh to the HR dude. Just don't hurt yourself on the way down from your self erected pedestal :)

    BTW, I don't know who Eric is...So there...
  4. Re:Knoppix is really good by Order+of+the+Penguin · · Score: 1 · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    If it runs into some issues, I can scratch that laptop off my list

    That probably doesn't test features like Intel's SpeedStep, or energy saving features like turning off the display, spinning down harddisks, et cetera.

    It also doesn't pick up problems like Dell laptops which get way too hot which usually show up after using the laptop for a length of time.

  5. Additional question by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Advice for a Novice Replacing Laptop Hard Drive?
    I have an additional question while people are reading this thread: I have a Dell D600 which has a severe harddisk heat problem. The harddisk heats up and because it is located under the left palm area, it gets uncomfortably warm there. I wanted to cool this disk, but there's almost no room. Could I try to transfer the heat using some sort of heat-conducting strip? The CD drive bay could be emptied so I could conduct the heat to that place and dissipate it using a small cooler.

    Here's a pic of the internals: http://www.josesandoval.com/images/D600Fix2.jpg. The harddisk is in the lower left, the drive bay is in the middle right (the big grey cover).

    Questions I have: what sort of strip (material?) should I use to conduct heat to the empty drive bay? Can it be really thin, like 1mm? And would any small cooler be enough? Or could I connect the heat conducting strip to the drive bay cover? (it's made of some sort of aluminium, AFAIK). The drive runs up to 55C. I'd prefer not to use a fan.

  6. Re:Drive Heat by cerberusss · · Score: 1 · on New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard Drives
    most likely your GPU or the end of the cpu heatpipe is there

    Nope, it's the disk. For Dell D600 trouble, see here, here and here.