The specs for their Chargepod say
Output Charge Power 500mA each port
Which is the same as USB. This plus the photos make is appear that their Chargepod is a essentially a powered USB hub. I'm sure you you can get powered USB hubs for less than they're charging, though quite possibly not as aesthetically pleasing.
I have seen inconsistent statements that the clipboard contents can only be overwritten after either the browser window can be closed or after the machine is restarted. If you are using KDE you can simply use 'Clear Clipboard History' in Klipper to get rid of the problem url.
The other question I find myself asking along with what have they been doing, is why is it taking so long? They announced IE7 in what, Feb 05? Firefox 2 is going to be out before IE 7 is.
They're making a lot of noise over a very long time and at the end of it all will produce something that's still inferior to the competition.
I recently spent hours trying to get 3D going on an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 M10 with FC3 before eventually giving up. I read I don't know how many how-tos and tips and tricks and nothing got it working.
This is one of the things that gets me about Linux, especially on a laptop, is finding people saying 'it just works' when it doesn't 'just work' for me. Following people's how-tos only to find they don't work in my instance, possibly because something on my system is slightly different to theirs. It can be very fraustrating.
My experience is Linux on a laptop basically works but don't expect sleep/hibernate/suspend, the bulit in wifi, the built in modem, or 3D video (unless it's Nvidia) to work. If you want a laptop which doesn't run Windows where everything really does 'just work' right out of the box get an iBook or a Powerbook.
That said support for bulit in wifi seems to be getting better and I've never failed to get 3D video for an Nvidia card going - I use the prorietry drivers Nvidia produce. They're dead easy to install and get working. I really don't care if they aren't open source, the fact that they're easy to get working and are free is far more important to me. Given the choice I'll always go for an Nvidia card in a machine that's going to run Linux.
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The specs for their Chargepod say Output Charge Power 500mA each port Which is the same as USB. This plus the photos make is appear that their Chargepod is a essentially a powered USB hub. I'm sure you you can get powered USB hubs for less than they're charging, though quite possibly not as aesthetically pleasing.
I have seen inconsistent statements that the clipboard contents can only be overwritten after either the browser window can be closed or after the machine is restarted. If you are using KDE you can simply use 'Clear Clipboard History' in Klipper to get rid of the problem url.
Yes, I know wrong story. Damn.
Firefox 3 needs GTK 2.10+. Too bad for those of use with Enterprise distros such as SLED10 which has GTK 2.8 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418885
Where is 'here'? Is what you call 'here' where I call 'here'? Probably not. So how do you know what is available where I call 'here'?
The other question I find myself asking along with what have they been doing, is why is it taking so long? They announced IE7 in what, Feb 05? Firefox 2 is going to be out before IE 7 is. They're making a lot of noise over a very long time and at the end of it all will produce something that's still inferior to the competition.
I recently spent hours trying to get 3D going on an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 M10 with FC3 before eventually giving up. I read I don't know how many how-tos and tips and tricks and nothing got it working.
This is one of the things that gets me about Linux, especially on a laptop, is finding people saying 'it just works' when it doesn't 'just work' for me. Following people's how-tos only to find they don't work in my instance, possibly because something on my system is slightly different to theirs. It can be very fraustrating.
My experience is Linux on a laptop basically works but don't expect sleep/hibernate/suspend, the bulit in wifi, the built in modem, or 3D video (unless it's Nvidia) to work. If you want a laptop which doesn't run Windows where everything really does 'just work' right out of the box get an iBook or a Powerbook.
That said support for bulit in wifi seems to be getting better and I've never failed to get 3D video for an Nvidia card going - I use the prorietry drivers Nvidia produce. They're dead easy to install and get working. I really don't care if they aren't open source, the fact that they're easy to get working and are free is far more important to me. Given the choice I'll always go for an Nvidia card in a machine that's going to run Linux.