OT: UNIX on Windows

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:55 AM
> To: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: OT: UNIX on Windows
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
> >Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> >> 
> >> I've been running Linux on a variety of laptops, mostly IBM 
> >> ThinkPads, for the last seven years.  The one I'm typing 
> this on is a 
> >> five year old ThinkPad 600 that's run Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, 
> >> OpenLinux 2.3, eDesktop 2.4, SuSE 8.1, 8,2, 9.0, and now 9.2.  I'm 
> >> connected to our in-house wi-fi network with a USB 802.11b.  If I 
> >> remember correctly, I had this laptop working as an 
> Internet hub in 
> >> the dorms at at least one SCO Forum with a Ricochet wireless modem 
> >> which JP and others were using with their laptops running 
> Windows or 
> >> OpenServer (or perhaps that was my previous ThinkPad 750).
> >> 
> >> My first Linux installs on a laptop were on a Toshiba with 
> no CD, and 
> >> that was a bit tricky.  I had to tweak the PCMCIA 
> configuration files 
> >> during a floppy install to get it to recognize a newer 
> 3com NIC so I 
> >> could do an NFS install.  That was probably Caldera 
> Network Desktop 
> >> 1.0.  Today SuSE Professional series from 8.0 and up have Just 
> >> Worked(tm) without any special handling.
> >> 
> >> My next laptop may well be an Apple PowerBook or iBook if 
> I can get 
> >> around their stupid touchpads.  I've gotten very used to the IBM 
> >> eraser type mouse, never using an external mouse.
> >
> >Okay, let me ask this...how -do- you get around laptop "mice" like 
> >touchpads that are the touchpad type and apparently require special 
> >drivers?  They don't work as a "regular" mouse under 'doze.  (I'm 
> >thinking of my Digital HiNote VP for example.)
> 
> As I said, I hate touchpads with a passion, and the ThinkPads 
> don't have them so I haven't had to deal with them.
> 
> >I'm not sure I even want to know about X11.  For that 
> matter, how would 
> >one handle X on an LCD flatscreen?  Do they even -have- sync 
> rates and 
> >dot pitch in the conventional sense?
> 
> That hasn't been a problem with the ThinkPads in the seven 
> years I've been using them.  There's only one choice, but it works.
> 
> Now if you want to discuss sound, that's a bit nastier :-).
> 
> Bill

Bill,

I have an IBM T-40.  It has Both.  The "eraser head" and a touch pad.  I also
hate the touch pad but have learned to live with it as many of my client's
laptops use them.

Every once in a while I will use it.  Maybe once in 1,000 uses of the laptop,  I
should disable it as I sometime inadvertently activate it with my palm even
though I have a setting which is supposed to ignore this type of movement.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting