[GRLUG] laptops
Benjamin Eavey
ben at eavey.com
Thu Mar 22 10:35:48 EDT 2007
Or you could always duct tape it... stylish and functional.
-Ben
Nathan Drier wrote:
> JB weld is a good idea. I took some of it with me on a road trip to
> Alaska...and I think id still be there without it ;-)
>
> Also maybe try some model airplane glue. That stuff seems to actually
> chemically 'melt' plastic together....very strong.
>
> ~Nate
>
> On 3/22/07, *Justin Denick* <justin.denick at gmail.com
> <mailto:justin.denick at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 3/22/07, *Benjamin Flanders* <flanderb at gmail.com
> <mailto:flanderb at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
> I'll chime in with my experience. Right now I am on a dell
> 600m. Everything works out of the box with ubuntu except some
> hand editing for the wireless. I have an old IBM (600mhz?) at
> home and everything it had worked. A gateway, yup all worked.
> I don't even think about compatibility anymore.
>
> Ruggedness, though is a problem, as Nathan pointed out. My old
> IBM seemed to be made out of a hardened rubber. It doesn't even
> have a scratch on it. My dell and gateway on the other hand,
> the plastic shell is cracking, the hinges are breaking. The
> plastic is so thin it bows slightly when I rest my wrist on it.
> Maybe I'm hard on my laptops, but I don't think I'm that hard on
> them.
>
> On this note, any recommendation as to how to stop a crack from
> becoming worse? I've tried super glue on a crack before and
> this didn't hold. It was within warranty at that point so I
> just had the shell replaced. Now it isn't in warranty and I
> have another crack forming.
>
>
> Try something called JB Weld. I have used it to seal everything form
> RC car parts to engine blocks. The stuff is bullet proof.
>
>
> On 3/22/07, *Marc Zuverink* <mzuverink at gmail.com
> <mailto:mzuverink at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Nathan Drier wrote:
>
>> So my laptop died a horrible death in a cold parking lot
>> today. I was wardriving on my way to my wireless security
>> class, and I took it out of my car to wander up to class
>> and didn't have a good hold on it. **slip fumble fumble
>> smash**
>>
>> The screen is pretty busted up, but everything else works
>> ok ( i'm actually still using it now) Screens run about
>> 250 bucks, so my plan is to just part it out on ebay and
>> get something else. I've been drooling over some little
>> dual-cores....but they are just a little out of my price
>> range.
>>
>> Now, my linux-related question is this. What laptops do
>> you guys run? Distros? Any brands you hate / love?
>> Horror Stories? How is linux compatability?
>>
>> ~Nate
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> I am running an HP Pavilion DV1000. I have ran several
> different distros on it, including Mandriva, Slackware,
> Linspire, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, DSL-Not, and Mint.
> Currently I have found Ubuntu to be the most friendly to
> install on a laptop, everything seems to work right out of
> the box. FreeBSD installs nicely too, but I would still
> recommend Ubuntu. Mint would be my second distro of choice.
> I have found HP to be very supportive of Linux and have made
> several calls to them and received sound advice, they even
> helped me get my Digital Media thingy to work, as well as
> supplying me with a modem driver for the integrated Intel AC'97.
> I have been exclusively using HP for several years and
> whenever I have a Linux related hardware issue some guru at
> HP support has ALWAYS pushed me in the right direction.
>
> So my recommendation is HP and Ubuntu.
>
> Thats my 2 cents worth.
>
> Oh, and I bought the machine directly from HP w/o an OS, and
> it saved me some cash by not having to buy a preinstalled
> laptop with XP on it. I think they took of 99 dollars.
> Funny thing though is that I have a windows OEM sticker on
> the bottom of my machine and they shipped me all the normal
> disks that they would have shipped if I had XP installed.
> Their mistake, my misfortune.
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