Hi Mark!
It has a battery, but the battery is *dead*. They cost a hundred bucks,
let's use a borrowed UPS during the install instead.
Laptop is ready to go. I have defragged it and scandisked it, I left the
partitions for the Mepis tool, neat to see if it is better than Partition
Magic - I will bring Partition Magic with me though, it just takes a minute
or two if I need it. Last distro on this box was Red Hat 8, the %#&)%#
winmodem and the Lexmark Z32 printer *didn't* work with RH 8.
It would be nice to get this box to play DVD movies under Linux. Under
Windows 98 it will play The Sound of Music, but no other title. Maybe it
has a thing for Julie Andrews (or for Christopher Plummer). The Sound of
Music also comes with some "PC friendly DVD" software, not that this would
make any difference. Let's see - HeartBreakers for a test DVD - Sigourney
Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman. Hackman plays a chain
smoker, wonder how they figured out to do that ?
I have the Mepis 2004-05 Beta live CD, courtesy of my Access Unlimited ISP
guy, George Emigh, an old-time Linux promoter, who brought it down on his
T-1 for me. If anyone has anything later or better, particularly the "good"
version of Mepis, by all means bring it.
At 09:01 AM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
>Hey, just a quick reminder, we are having a meeting tomorrow. I guess we
>are doing an install on a laptop with no battery *grin*
>
>Anyway, show up, have some pizza, talk Linux. Oh, and I talked to a
>friend of mine who is an X developer for Redhat. I can relay some of his
>insight as to the free86.org and x.org brouhaha.
Regards,
Pete
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