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ad 4) It is not in Toshiba's interest to run behind 3rd-party sites to make sure they update their outdated manuals.

Also, we have this thing called the "web", which is built by making so-called "links".
Every company, and Toshiba too, has a website where you can select your model and download its manual. Directly from the manufacturer.
https://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_manuals.jsp
I can see why you would want for yourself a folder with the laptops you repair, but it's unnecessary to redistribute.

That said, there is no real reason manuals shouldn't be CC BY-ND or at least CC BY-NC-ND.

I do not think the "manuals" this website was offering are the same "manuals" which you can get via that link. There is a certain difference between an end-user manual (i.e. "do not microwave this notebook or feed it to your dog") and a REPAIR manual, which describes in detail how to access and replace the motherboard and which screws have to be removed in which order to do so.

ad 4) It is not in Toshiba's interest to run behind 3rd-party sites to make sure they update their outdated manuals.

Also, we have this thing called the "web", which is built by making so-called "links".
Every company, and Toshiba too, has a website where you can select your model and download its manual. Directly from the manufacturer.
https://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_manuals.jsp
I can see why you would want for yourself a folder with the laptops you repair, but it's unnecessary to redistribute.

That said, there is no real reason manuals shouldn't be CC BY-ND or at least CC BY-NC-ND.

Toshiba AC-100 Android netbook:
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=1091301

Physical dimensions W x D x H : 262.0 x 189.8 x 14.0 (front) / 21.0 (rear) mm
weight : starting at 0.87 kg

Release date: aug 2010

I'm talking about business notebooks. From Toshiba. Mandated by an enterprise-wide IT department that has only the CEO himself to fear.

Like these

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Tecra-M10-Series/1056372/

VGA only. Digital video is for heretics and hopeless perfectionists. A 1400x1050 image on an external projector is meant to be blurry and I like it that way.

Maybe the next bios patch for my Toshiba will not completely fux Linux access to hardware again. Do I dare chance it? They might even have re-enabled VT. I'm soooo tempted. But the last 4 times I had to rebuild, hack, and rebuild to get hardware to work again. But if they are going to support OpenSolaris... But what if my fears are correct and the bios update makes my machine a Vista only POS. I'm soooo torn.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/warning-there-is-windows-in-my..-bios-544779/#post2705017

http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=61084

I will never buy a Toshiba Laptop EVER again. The assembly is shoddy, the hardware is the cheapest low grade crap they can put together, and the support is the worst on earth.

They are hunting for an Open Source OS that they can put on it for free (but charge you), that has very little hardware support so they don't have the shit storm of "why did you fuck this up" questions on their Linux support forums. It will take 2 years, max, for OpenSolaris to get to the same place (hardware support wise) as Linux. By then the laptop will no longer be supported.

pretty neat... toshiba makes some predictions on availability of future technology in 2008 - page is still live!

http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/sna/tnt/visions98/spec07.htm/

writable "blue-laser" media was dead on, but dna computing and 3d displays still haven't made it. *sigh*

http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t1100plus/

And yes it ran linux (ELKS)

Beat that ;)

I was quite a fan of my Toshiba Libretto 100CT when I had it, it's quite small (210 x 132 x 35 mm) and runs a 166mhz x86 intel pentium 1 mmx. In terms of networking/usb you can use PC Card expansion slots, or get the "Mini Card" (read docking station) which gives you a usb port and more PC Card expansion slots.

Quite a nifty machine for circa 1996, problem is now they fall into the "collector" catagory so some people are paying a fortune for them on ePay.

See also: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/libretto100ct/index.shtm

I have one of the affected batteries according to the visual inspection instructions provided by Toshiba here

I rang the Toshiba helpdesk to report this and was told that because I run Linux, this would be a problem. According to the helpdesk assistant, I would need to return the entire laptop to a repair center, and have it running the installed Operating System (Windows XP Home) with the test utility installed. The repair center will then carry out diagnostics to determine if the battery should be replaced or not.

So now I have to back up all of my user data so I can put the restore disc in and install Windows XP just to get a battery swapped.Toshiba can expect a large letter of complaint regarding this once I'm done.

a link to (apparantly) all specific model/part numbers affect is here: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/Tos hibaCSG/generic_content.jsp?service=EU&ID=TOSHIBA_ BATTERY_EU,br>
I tried posting the list, but the lame filter was to lame to realize it was ueful, and I am to lame to spend an the time needed to format it in an obvious enough way that the filter won't throw a hissy-fit.

BASF Research
Batelle
BBC Research & Development
General Electric Global Research

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Motorola Labs
Microsoft Research
HP Labs
IBM Research
Intel Research
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Philips Research
Corporate Research
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Toshiba Research Europa
Toyota Central R&D Labs
Viewpoints Research Institute

Methanol CAN be green, but right now methanol is mostly manufactured from FOSSIL FULES. Methanol is highly toxic, even upon contact with skin.

The article is also wrong. Methanol fuel cells do not reform into hydrogen. If it did, the fuel cell would suffer from all of the cost of materials problems as conventional fuel cells.

Again all of this is old news, as Toshiba has already done a press release about a 100mw direct methanol fuel cell.

Er, you mean one like this?

A fetus is a collection of cells until about three months old at which point it gains a rudimentary, vegetal ability to sense things. A (probably non-temporal) consciousness, such as it may be, develops over the last three months.

Secure Video Conferencing via Quantum Cryptography

If you use a webcam to talk with your mom, this tool is not for you. But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need. According to this article from Nature, researchers from Toshiba have developed a system which can generate 100 quantum 'keys' every second, fast enough to protect every frame in a video exchange. This technology, which today is working over a distance of about 120 kilometers, could become commercially available within two years at an initial cost of $20,000. Read more...

Here is the introduction from Nature.

Scientists from Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory unveiled their invention to business leaders and government officials at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry in London on 27 April.

Their system is capable of generating 100 quantum 'keys' every second. This is fast enough for every individual frame of video to be protected by its own encryption. "This makes the system highly secure," says Andrew Shields, who leads the Cambridge team. "It would take an enormous computational resource to crack this frame by frame."

Of course, today's videoconferencing tools using conventional encryption are already pretty secure. But if the NSA wants to check your conversation, I betit can. With quantum cryptography, this is a different story.

Quantum cryptography promises to stop such eavesdroppers. The system works by first establishing a 'key' that provides instructions on how to decode an incoming message. This key is built into the quantum state of photons. Intercepting a message breaks the key and alerts the sender and intended recipient to the security breach, because the very act of observing a quantum state changes it.

The Quantum Information Group at Toshiba gives more details on this subject on this page about Security from Eavesdropping . Below is a diagram illustrating the concept (Credit: Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory).

Using single photons to carry the bit material for the key prevents undetected eavesdropping. Because each bit is carried by a single photon, it is not possible for a hacker to tap in and remove part of the signal, as shown in the illustration. Single photons do not split, so if the hacker (Eve) measures the photons on the fibre, they will not reach the intended recipient (Bob). Only the photons that arrive at Bob are used to form the key, so Eve cannot gain any useful information by this crude 'tapping' attack.

The first commercial applications of quantum cryptography are now about one year old. However, this new system offers new levels of performances, according to Nature.

Unlike previous systems, which become unreliable when they heat up, this device can run continuously for more than four weeks, says Shields. The quantum information can only go so far before being corrupted by random interactions with surrounding material, however. "We've shown this can work over 120 kilometres of fibre," says Shields.

Toshiba has already built a Quantum Cryptography Prot

Secure Video Conferencing via Quantum Cryptography

If you use a webcam to talk with your mom, this tool is not for you. But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need. According to this article from Nature, researchers from Toshiba have developed a system which can generate 100 quantum 'keys' every second, fast enough to protect every frame in a video exchange. This technology, which today is working over a distance of about 120 kilometers, could become commercially available within two years at an initial cost of $20,000. Read more...

Here is the introduction from Nature.

Scientists from Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory unveiled their invention to business leaders and government officials at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry in London on 27 April.

Their system is capable of generating 100 quantum 'keys' every second. This is fast enough for every individual frame of video to be protected by its own encryption. "This makes the system highly secure," says Andrew Shields, who leads the Cambridge team. "It would take an enormous computational resource to crack this frame by frame."

Of course, today's videoconferencing tools using conventional encryption are already pretty secure. But if the NSA wants to check your conversation, I betit can. With quantum cryptography, this is a different story.

Quantum cryptography promises to stop such eavesdroppers. The system works by first establishing a 'key' that provides instructions on how to decode an incoming message. This key is built into the quantum state of photons. Intercepting a message breaks the key and alerts the sender and intended recipient to the security breach, because the very act of observing a quantum state changes it.

The Quantum Information Group at Toshiba gives more details on this subject on this page about Security from Eavesdropping . Below is a diagram illustrating the concept (Credit: Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory).

Using single photons to carry the bit material for the key prevents undetected eavesdropping. Because each bit is carried by a single photon, it is not possible for a hacker to tap in and remove part of the signal, as shown in the illustration. Single photons do not split, so if the hacker (Eve) measures the photons on the fibre, they will not reach the intended recipient (Bob). Only the photons that arrive at Bob are used to form the key, so Eve cannot gain any useful information by this crude 'tapping' attack.

The first commercial applications of quantum cryptography are now about one year old. However, this new system offers new levels of performances, according to Nature.

Unlike previous systems, which become unreliable when they heat up, this device can run continuously for more than four weeks, says Shields. The quantum information can only go so far before being corrupted by random interactions with surrounding material, however. "We've shown this can work over 120 kilometres of fibre," says Shields.

Toshiba has already built a Quantum Cryptography Prot

Secure Video Conferencing via Quantum Cryptography

If you use a webcam to talk with your mom, this tool is not for you. But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need. According to this article from Nature, researchers from Toshiba have developed a system which can generate 100 quantum 'keys' every second, fast enough to protect every frame in a video exchange. This technology, which today is working over a distance of about 120 kilometers, could become commercially available within two years at an initial cost of $20,000. Read more...

Here is the introduction from Nature.

Scientists from Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory unveiled their invention to business leaders and government officials at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry in London on 27 April.

Their system is capable of generating 100 quantum 'keys' every second. This is fast enough for every individual frame of video to be protected by its own encryption. "This makes the system highly secure," says Andrew Shields, who leads the Cambridge team. "It would take an enormous computational resource to crack this frame by frame."

Of course, today's videoconferencing tools using conventional encryption are already pretty secure. But if the NSA wants to check your conversation, I betit can. With quantum cryptography, this is a different story.

Quantum cryptography promises to stop such eavesdroppers. The system works by first establishing a 'key' that provides instructions on how to decode an incoming message. This key is built into the quantum state of photons. Intercepting a message breaks the key and alerts the sender and intended recipient to the security breach, because the very act of observing a quantum state changes it.

The Quantum Information Group at Toshiba gives more details on this subject on this page about Security from Eavesdropping . Below is a diagram illustrating the concept (Credit: Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory).

Using single photons to carry the bit material for the key prevents undetected eavesdropping. Because each bit is carried by a single photon, it is not possible for a hacker to tap in and remove part of the signal, as shown in the illustration. Single photons do not split, so if the hacker (Eve) measures the photons on the fibre, they will not reach the intended recipient (Bob). Only the photons that arrive at Bob are used to form the key, so Eve cannot gain any useful information by this crude 'tapping' attack.

The first commercial applications of quantum cryptography are now about one year old. However, this new system offers new levels of performances, according to Nature.

Unlike previous systems, which become unreliable when they heat up, this device can run continuously for more than four weeks, says Shields. The quantum information can only go so far before being corrupted by random interactions with surrounding material, however. "We've shown this can work over 120 kilometres of fibre," says Shields.

Toshiba has already built a Quantum Cryptography Prot

Secure Video Conferencing via Quantum Cryptography

If you use a webcam to talk with your mom, this tool is not for you. But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need. According to this article from Nature, researchers from Toshiba have developed a system which can generate 100 quantum 'keys' every second, fast enough to protect every frame in a video exchange. This technology, which today is working over a distance of about 120 kilometers, could become commercially available within two years at an initial cost of $20,000. Read more...

Here is the introduction from Nature.

Scientists from Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory unveiled their invention to business leaders and government officials at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry in London on 27 April.

Their system is capable of generating 100 quantum 'keys' every second. This is fast enough for every individual frame of video to be protected by its own encryption. "This makes the system highly secure," says Andrew Shields, who leads the Cambridge team. "It would take an enormous computational resource to crack this frame by frame."

Of course, today's videoconferencing tools using conventional encryption are already pretty secure. But if the NSA wants to check your conversation, I betit can. With quantum cryptography, this is a different story.

Quantum cryptography promises to stop such eavesdroppers. The system works by first establishing a 'key' that provides instructions on how to decode an incoming message. This key is built into the quantum state of photons. Intercepting a message breaks the key and alerts the sender and intended recipient to the security breach, because the very act of observing a quantum state changes it.

The Quantum Information Group at Toshiba gives more details on this subject on this page about Security from Eavesdropping . Below is a diagram illustrating the concept (Credit: Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory).

Using single photons to carry the bit material for the key prevents undetected eavesdropping. Because each bit is carried by a single photon, it is not possible for a hacker to tap in and remove part of the signal, as shown in the illustration. Single photons do not split, so if the hacker (Eve) measures the photons on the fibre, they will not reach the intended recipient (Bob). Only the photons that arrive at Bob are used to form the key, so Eve cannot gain any useful information by this crude 'tapping' attack.

The first commercial applications of quantum cryptography are now about one year old. However, this new system offers new levels of performances, according to Nature.

Unlike previous systems, which become unreliable when they heat up, this device can run continuously for more than four weeks, says Shields. The quantum information can only go so far before being corrupted by random interactions with surrounding material, however. "We've shown this can work over 120 kilometres of fibre," says Shields.

Toshiba has already built a Quantum Cryptography Prot

Oh what marketing fluff. Headlines mention 2005, the first paragraph in the article says next year, and then the next paragraph says 2007. Which one should we believe? Toshiba is actually the first to bring the perpendicular recording technology to market. We are likely to see the 40GB and 80GB Toshiba drives with perpendicular recording technology in iPods real soon (June?).

Sheesh. I have to work on an 800x480 screen when I'm on the move. :-P ( As seen here, running Debian ).

YLFI.

Well since Toshiba is one of the founders of the format and they say Here that it origionally stood for Digital Video Disk I would say its not a bad choice. The term technically does not have a proper definition. For those too lazy to read the link here in the pertinant quote:
DVD originally stood for digital video disk. This was the generic title of the type of disk Hollywood was looking for to distribute films on. In the development stage it soon became clear that such a disk would have many more uses than for just showing films. As the leading companie tried to gather more influence two variation appeared: the MMCD or multimedia CD from Sony and Philips and the SD or Super Density Disk from the Toshiba/Time Warner alliance. When the two groups agreed the compromise format a common name became once more necessary. To avoid partisanship, the letters DVD became once more the official name. Whereas DVD earlier was only an acronym, all parties to the final agreement agreed not to spell out DVD. The letters DVD are now the name. Some say it is still basically a digital video disk, others point to the multiple uses now possible and say that it really stands for Digital Versatile Disk. Whatever meaning you want to attribute, DVD is the name that you will see in the shops and the advertising. DVD is the logo to watch out for.

PC manufactures has already done that. The now discontinued Equium 2000 from toshiba was built with notebook technology. The motherboard, harddisk and cd is built into the stand of the display. It even used the same select bay system as toshibas real notebook Tecra 8000. It was no blockbuster so I guess we windows and Linux users rather buy a cheap square big box than a smaller, designed but expensive computer.

I have such a webpad: A Fujitsu Stylistic 1000: 486 CPU (fine for simple X / browsing), attachable PS/2 keyboard(I use the Twiddler II), VGA port (for CyVisor or Monitor) for when the 640x480 8" display isn't enough, radio pen, PCMCIA HD (270MB comes standard, 2GB available), 2 additional type II PCMCIA slots, IRDA, Serial, Parallel, and a 3750mAh battery lasts four or five hours on a charge. I'm running RedHat 7.0, but the cleanest install I've heard of is Debian. One can often purchase them surplus for around $100. HSC Electronics is currently out of stock, but you may find them elsewhere.