How old are each of your laptops and how long do they last now?
Do you just leave the battery bay open?
It would be nice if they made some kind of cover.. I've seen it for other laptops.
I have an IBM T21 and I've bought two replacement batteries already. After about a year they start to not hold a full charge. My current battery is about 11 months old and lasts for about an hour. I'm not complaining too much here..
I run a small internet game, hardly worth mentioning, called No Reality. It's a MUD -- I know that there are quite a few in the/. community who are familiar with this type of game.
I own noreality.org for the game and website. It seems like corporations always win with these things. Because I own it, an individual, not a business, is it likely that if some corporation comes after me for this domain, I would also lose?
It seems like these other domains were owned by individuals also. Is it power and money that's giving companies the ability to pry these domains away from people..
Does anyone find it amusing that this pr0n guy Munoz hires one of the people allegedly responsible for his interruption of service to testify on his behalf.
That bit about joining a LUG could really help you. I'm a college student as well (3rd year, 21 yrs old now) and I've never had to look for a job because I've had great connections through the LUG.
The first job I had was as an sysadmin/web developer for a small research project. Now I work for the IT dept at my university with the UNIX sysadmin team. Two of the people who previously held my current position now work as full time sysadmins.;)
I had a Mobile PII that had the ID # (yes, intel was putting them in the PIIs for laptops since they were being manufactured at the same time as the first PIIIs) but I returned it for an older PII.
I'm a self-proclaimed geek girl, myself. And... I'm not sure if this whole thing about/. doing features about "Where are all the geek women?" is a facination thing or what... but I'm kinda asking the same question.
I have been running Linux for about four years now. I am the president of the Linux User's Group here at the university I attend and I have a programming job with a prof here on campus doing unix programming/DB and web stuff.
Honestly, I have never met another woman that is as knowledgable in the same areas that I am. There are quite a few female CS majors, but I haven't met any others that use Linux for programming, etc. Maybe I have a higher opinion of Unix/Linux programmers, I don't know. I've never met any other women that were.
Supposedly, I am on the CS common interest floor for women. I think three other people besides myself who are CS majors. So either the computer savvy women elsewhere or there just aren't many at all.
Back in March I started a website that hosts user reviews/linux info/general info, etc for Transmonde laptops. http://transmonde.geek.net/ A small company in CA, good product, known for supporting Linux, etc. I started it so that people like me could have more independant information about their laptops instead of reading reviews in big magazines and only relying on their website. You might call it a user-group.
Anyway, a few months ago, some people started getting suspicious of me. I would get e-mail asking if I owned stock in the company, if I worked for them, etc. Transmonde just seems too good to be true.:( There was a thread on usenet about me -- questioning my position in the whole thing. I have not received a single review from anyone ever since that happened. I don't honestly know if it's because of what was said in the thread on comp.sys.laptops or not, but have suspicions.
Later on (in May/June), I was called a marketing ploy! I don't know what possessed me, but I put up my webcam and gave posted the URL for it, I directed them to a URL that they could look me up as a student of a university in MN (how could a company fake that?), I wrote up an "about me" page as well explaining who I was and why I bought a laptop from Transmonde. I don't know what people think of me anymore, maybe I shouldn't even care; I almost think my credability is damaged forever to the comp.sys.laptops people.
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I saw an ATM crash once and... it booted up OS/2!
How old are each of your laptops and how long do they last now?
Do you just leave the battery bay open?
It would be nice if they made some kind of cover.. I've seen it for other laptops.
I have an IBM T21 and I've bought two replacement batteries already. After about a year they start to not hold a full charge. My current battery is about 11 months old and lasts for about an hour. I'm not complaining too much here..
Amazing! A game that's popular that doesn't have you beating the crap out of things with guns or swords!
Unless you get to beat someone to a pulp with your drumsticks?
Isn't it ironic that a few days ago /. posted an article about how 1984 DIDN'T happen. Now the U.S. Govt is trying to make it happen? ;)
I run a small internet game, hardly worth mentioning, called No Reality. It's a MUD -- I know that there are quite a few in the /. community who are familiar with this type of game.
I own noreality.org for the game and website. It seems like corporations always win with these things. Because I own it, an individual, not a business, is it likely that if some corporation comes after me for this domain, I would also lose?
It seems like these other domains were owned by individuals also. Is it power and money that's giving companies the ability to pry these domains away from people..
Does anyone know why it was kept so hush? It's so unlike the open source community to not just put it all right out there.
Does anyone find it amusing that this pr0n guy Munoz hires one of the people allegedly responsible for his interruption of service to testify on his behalf.
We're getting closer to Penny's computer book!
I've kinda always wondered when that technology would come along.
As one of my friends put it...
Simulating life...at the expense of your own.
:)
The heck are you talkin' bout boy? Sony bought the rights for PS3-PS9. Yep, they sure are going out of business!
That bit about joining a LUG could really help you. I'm a college student as well (3rd year, 21 yrs old now) and I've never had to look for a job because I've had great connections through the LUG.
;)
The first job I had was as an sysadmin/web developer for a small research project. Now I work for the IT dept at my university with the UNIX sysadmin team. Two of the people who previously held my current position now work as full time sysadmins.
I had a Mobile PII that had the ID # (yes, intel was putting them in the PIIs for laptops since they were being manufactured at the same time as the first PIIIs) but I returned it for an older PII.
I'm a self-proclaimed geek girl, myself. And... I'm not sure if this whole thing about /. doing features about "Where are all the geek women?" is a facination thing or what... but I'm kinda asking the same question.
I have been running Linux for about four years now. I am the president of the Linux User's Group here at the university I attend and I have a programming job with a prof here on campus doing unix programming/DB and web stuff.
Honestly, I have never met another woman that is as knowledgable in the same areas that I am. There are quite a few female CS majors, but I haven't met any others that use Linux for programming, etc. Maybe I have a higher opinion of Unix/Linux programmers, I don't know. I've never met any other women that were.
Supposedly, I am on the CS common interest floor for women. I think three other people besides myself who are CS majors. So either the computer savvy women elsewhere or there just aren't many at all.
- Jess
Back in March I started a website that hosts user reviews/linux info/general info, etc for Transmonde laptops. http://transmonde.geek.net/ A small company in CA, good product, known for supporting Linux, etc. I started it so that people like me could have more independant information about their laptops instead of reading reviews in big magazines and only relying on their website. You might call it a user-group.
:( There was a thread on usenet about me -- questioning my position in the whole thing. I have not received a single review from anyone ever since that happened. I don't honestly know if it's because of what was said in the thread on comp.sys.laptops or not, but have suspicions.
Anyway, a few months ago, some people started getting suspicious of me. I would get e-mail asking if I owned stock in the company, if I worked for them, etc. Transmonde just seems too good to be true.
Later on (in May/June), I was called a marketing ploy! I don't know what possessed me, but I put up my webcam and gave posted the URL for it, I directed them to a URL that they could look me up as a student of a university in MN (how could a company fake that?), I wrote up an "about me" page as well explaining who I was and why I bought a laptop from Transmonde. I don't know what people think of me anymore, maybe I shouldn't even care; I almost think my credability is damaged forever to the comp.sys.laptops people.
Just sharing my not-so-similar experience.
The moral: Your word is meaningless, get over it.
- Jess