Recent content by edwardtsai

That's what I heard... I think I might upgrade the hard drive too....

I have two systems. A T42 1.7Ghz Pentium M with 1GB ram; I also have a Dell 2.0Ghz P4 with 768MB ram. I was wondering what I should do to best run MS Access for a large (well, not that large really) DB - if getting 512MB more ram on my IBM (max 1.5GB) or increase my dell machine to 1.5GB ram...

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=15759&highlight=sata Never mind - it looks like no =(

hi guys, i have a t42 and am looking to upgrade the 5400 rpm drive to whatever is fastest on the market now - i have a 7k60 travelstar but was wondering if i should look into the seagate sata 80 gb/7200 drive... wondering if anyone has done an install of such on their own laptop? thanks...

Ok, sprung for an e-19 as well - should come in two days hopefully... -Edward

Has anyone had a successful rebate and do you know if you can take off the stand and put it on an arm only?

Do they fix dead-pixel ones? Has anyone gotten a refurb 24 inch and have comments? Thanks. -Edward

I think I might spring for one of the ibm dock ii (the ones that let you insert a half-height pci card to get DVI working for my t42.

I have an ATI radeon 7500.

Hi, I am planning on extending coverage in my house of the wireless network. Basically, a 802.11b wireless router is in my living room. My room and my brothers room are separated approximately 25 or so feet from the router by another room (office room) and walls, so that right in our...

Hi Peter, Thanks - that worked for me - looks like I can go to 1600x1200 and 2048x1536 but not the widescreen inbetween mode. -Edward

I did some more searching and foudn this - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Dock_II seems like i might have to get a docking port... otherwise, i'm stuck witha regular monitor.

Hi guys, I normally use a laptop, so I am trying to figure out whether or not to buy one of the widescreen dell lcds (20 inch or 24 inch)... the problem is that I'm not sure if my IBM T42 can handle that... if not, I'm stuck with getting a regular 19 or 20 incher... Thanks -Edward

Hi, I am looking for comparisons of the major Linux *server* distros (such as a side-by-side comparison). Do you have any articles you can recommend (an article covering windows, redhat, mac os x, hpux, and other major/interesting oses would be great!) Thanks. -Edward

Yeah, it looks like Logitech also has monitoring / movement sensor I think - however, the question is if the email program / utility they use to automatically send an email when there is monitoring enabled, can use my MS Outlook or has its own SSL SMTP stuff.