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  1. Sony's Picturebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    The Sony Vaio PCG-C1X w/ the lithium ion option and a PCMCIA cellular modem fits your bill.


    Sony's Computer page


    It even has an entry in the
    Linux Laptop Page

  2. The quote's Nietzche's by Max+Hyre · · Score: 1 · on Catching a breath...
    A reference to Nietzche's Beyond Good And Evil (translated by Walter Kaufmann) quotes it as:
    Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

    [Found in a university term paper analyzing Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.]

  3. Answering Questions by ajlitt · · Score: 1 · on Teens Make a Wearable WebCam

    I got a camera on my machine at work: The Andycam

  4. McDonalds already had numerous complaints by MikeTurk · · Score: 1 · on Students Sue over Difficult Class
    Please read this. Every article says that she was riding in the car. To me, that means it was moving. More to the point, perhaps, is the fact that she took the lid off. McDonald's have parking spaces to do this in. After you get your coffee, park, put it on the dashboard, and do the creamer and sugar bit. Then put the lid back on and put it in the cupholder. This is not difficult.

    Mike
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  5. Laptop install by Fish+Man · · Score: 1 · on Village Voice on Gnome GUI/Linux

    Absolutely RedHat 5.2 includes PCMCIA drivers,
    and all available during the install process.

    I'm with you, had I been there, that sucker'd be up and running, even if I had to resort to installing from the hard drive and sort out the PCMCIA details later.

    The Linux Laptop home page
    has no less than 6 different pages about installing on an IBM 560*.

    One point I make to people over and over is that installing an operating system from scratch on a PC, ANY operating system, is difficult. It requires knowledge of the hardware that very few ordinary users have.

    I have done over 100 Linux installs from scratch on various hardware, and have done several dozen installs of Win 95/98. I run into puzzeling stuff at least as often during windows installs as during Linux installs.

    Those of us with experience installing *operating systems* (which probably includes a majority of those reading this) know that Plug-n-Play is a bad joke, "auto detection" often doesn't, etc.

    While most users can install an *application* the majority of people when faced with the proposition of breaking open the shrink wrap on that OEM Windows 95/98 CD that came with their computer because their hard drive got hosed and they are facing installing windows from scratch are totally in over their heads.

    These same people couldn't install Linux either.

    This means that the writer has a very good point that the availability of computers with Linux pre-installed is essential for it to ever become a major player. Fortunately, this is happeining.

  6. Sparc-on-the-ceiling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cooler Cases

    See http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~litt/boxes.ht ml