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IBM Thinkpad -- Sudden Laptop Death Syndrome?
Bronz asks: "In one day I went from pondering selling my IBM Thinkpad T20 on eBay to mourning it's inevitable death, and I don't think I'm alone (nor is the T20 is the only fatality). The symptoms are illusive but a pattern may be emerging -- be wary of putting your Thinkpad into a hibernate/sleep state and leaving it connected to AC power. A cursory web search has revealed a smattering of threads detailing the illness. First it won't come out of hibernation and then it simply won't boot at all. One interesting facet of the first thread is that the frequency of posts has been steadily increasing over the past few months and doesn't seem limited to any one particular model." Has anyone else run into this problem with their Thinkpad laptop? "On a sad note, I feel I only recently exposed the machine to the problem by enabling ACPI in Fedora Core 3 (acpi=force and tinkering with the lid/sleep button events) right before I left for the Thanksgiving holiday. I closed the lid and probably sealed it's fate; first thinking it just wasn't waking up from sleep, a subsequent reboot hung but eventually started, a third boot took slightly longer to sit 'cold' before starting and the forth boot -- well, I'll tell you when/if it ever happens ... It's going on 5 hours as I type this.
Using Slashdot as a channel for tech support has never garnered many friends, but I've always thought of Thinkpads as Linux-friendly laptops and certainly a large number of Thinkpads have found their way under many Slashdot readers 'support umbrella.' Have I randomly stumbled onto a growing, serious problem -- or am I merely an unfortunate statistic at the wrong end of the bell curve? Sometimes it is difficult to determine the difference as there could be a silent majority of people who individually just thought they were unlucky." -
Cisco IOS Source Code Theft Story Continues
securitas writes "eWEEK's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the source code for Cisco's 'main networking device operating system was stolen on Thursday' (May 13) according to the Russian company SecurityLab. SecurityLab says that criminals broke into Cisco's network and stole 800MB of source code for IOS 12.3 and IOS 12.3t, a pre-release variant. The purported culprit(s) then bragged about the feat in an IRC session and offered 2.5 MB of the code as proof. Industry analysts Dell'Oro Group says that 'Cisco owns 62 percent of the core router market.' More at the Sydney Morning Herald and Windows Network magazine." Our original coverage was here of this story. -
No WMA for HP iPod
finelinebob writes "In spite of Paul Thurrott's wishful thinking, Wired is reporting that HP will not support the WMA format in its version of the iPod. From the article, according to HP spokesperson Muffi Ghadial, "'We're not going to be supporting WMA for now ... We picked the service that was the most popular (Apple's iTunes Music Store). We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.' He added, 'Most customers don't care about the format they're downloading.'" Thurrott's singing a different tune lately, anyway...." -
No WMA for HP iPod
finelinebob writes "In spite of Paul Thurrott's wishful thinking, Wired is reporting that HP will not support the WMA format in its version of the iPod. From the article, according to HP spokesperson Muffi Ghadial, "'We're not going to be supporting WMA for now ... We picked the service that was the most popular (Apple's iTunes Music Store). We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.' He added, 'Most customers don't care about the format they're downloading.'" Thurrott's singing a different tune lately, anyway...." -
Can OWA Replace the Outlook Client and the VPN?
IPAQ2000 writes "This past week, I attended a panel discussion sponsored by Microsoft and other major players in the space. One of the ideas brought up by one of the expert panel attendees from a company called Seaside Software claimed that large organizations should rely mainly on Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange 2K access for remote users. He claimed that OWA access with SSL makes it perfect for secure access and saves the hassle of the VPN client support. I can see how avoiding the VPN client and the Outlook client together on desktops around large organizations (like mine) could be a good thing (by saving money), and how moving to OWA for remote users makes sense. In fact, it looks like MS themselves are putting much more emphasis on the browser in Exchange 2003 (OWA and Outlook are almost identical) so that users can run whatever version is appropriate for their needs, according to connectivity speeds, location, etc. There was a discussion regarding mobility and remote solutions in the enterprise. I thought that this might be a good subject for a Slashdot discussion, especially as it relates to Exchange. What do you think about OWA as main way of accessing Exchange, especially as OWA keeps getting richer with each version of Exchange?" -
Can OWA Replace the Outlook Client and the VPN?
IPAQ2000 writes "This past week, I attended a panel discussion sponsored by Microsoft and other major players in the space. One of the ideas brought up by one of the expert panel attendees from a company called Seaside Software claimed that large organizations should rely mainly on Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange 2K access for remote users. He claimed that OWA access with SSL makes it perfect for secure access and saves the hassle of the VPN client support. I can see how avoiding the VPN client and the Outlook client together on desktops around large organizations (like mine) could be a good thing (by saving money), and how moving to OWA for remote users makes sense. In fact, it looks like MS themselves are putting much more emphasis on the browser in Exchange 2003 (OWA and Outlook are almost identical) so that users can run whatever version is appropriate for their needs, according to connectivity speeds, location, etc. There was a discussion regarding mobility and remote solutions in the enterprise. I thought that this might be a good subject for a Slashdot discussion, especially as it relates to Exchange. What do you think about OWA as main way of accessing Exchange, especially as OWA keeps getting richer with each version of Exchange?"