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Juno29

Christian Decker

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Windows Stickers!

designed-for-linux

Do you have a notebook? Then probably you’ll have one of those incredibly annoying Windows stickers on it, even if you never had Windows running on it.

Far from being useful they are pretty annoying, first they lose all their colors, which then stick to your screen, instead of the shiny surface they are supposed to. Then the sticker itself starts to move around under the daily use, exposing its sticky underside.

Finally when you got fed up with your wrist being glued to the notebook, and decide to remove the sticker completely, the glue sticks to the notebook, and heavily fights off any attempt of removal.

That’s what happened to me, and now I’m wondering how to remove. Dammit Windows, even without you, you annoy me…

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Febo05

Christian Decker

6

Nex is dead!

You may be wondering who Nex is. Well it’s m notebook, a Dell Latitude D600 I bought about 3 years ago, when starting my studies at ETH Zurich. It’s dead…

It all started a week ago when all the sudden the disk started to spins uncontrollably (much higher than the 5′400 RPM it’s supposed to do), so I shut it off with a hard reset, when booting again it complained that it couldn’t find the primary disk, so I let it turned off for a while, and miracle, it started again. It scared me so much that I decided to start making backups, and not a day to soon. I set up a simple rsync script that would sync my homefolder to another box, so I could at least go back if all went snafu.

Today it did. After some clicking noises, the notebook started not reacting properly and I decided to shut it down… it never came up again…

Well, hopefully I can get hold on a disk soon because it’s my main working machine. Until then: Rest in Peace Nex :D

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Febo25

Christian Decker

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Dell has to go Linux?

I’m reallt thrilled about the post at the Ubuntu Blog:

So Dell emulated digg and put the idea to (good) use in letting people submit and vote for ideas to be implemented at Dell. The result was Dell Idea Storm. Now maybe Dell regrets it, just a wee bit. You see, the popular requests page right now is dominated by Linux-oriented requests. The most popular idea is for machines with Linux (Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/Fedora) pre-installed. Followed closely by an idea to distribute PCs with OpenOffice preinstalled. There are popular ideas that suggest PCs without Windows installed, PCs with open-source Linux drivers etc. Now, for Dell, it would be a small publicity setback if they do not act on at least a few of these ideas – them being the most popular ideas. It will be interesting to see how it develops. I hope Dell does not just seem to be attentive to customers, and actually gives them what they demand.
Could this finally be the end of half working Notebooks under Linux? That would be great news, especially after all the trouble I had (and still have) to get my Graphiccard running under OpenSuse 10.2. [via the Ubuntu Blog]

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