[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:15:19PM +0100, Winsley von Spee wrote:
> Sorry for "costiveness is horny" ;). In German it's "Geiz is Geil" you
> can translate ist with cheap is good but it sound much more kitchy
> (excuse again when kitchy is wrong at this place again). 

"The cheaper the better" perhaps?


On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:56:52PM +0100, Meike Reichle wrote:
> dissapoint me). My only comfort is, that for me there's still a long 
> time until I'll run out of thinkpad models (considering that, as a 
> student, you can usually not afford them until they are at least ~5 
> years old. So there's still years to come until models like the X30 or 
> even X40 reach "my world" ;)

Here in Sweden university students (at least with one of the major
technical universities) get a really good deal on the X40, 10000 SEK
which is like 1200 EUR, possibly a little more.


On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:05:39PM -0500, Matt Graham wrote:
> > > You can even turn the tp light on and off from the console thats a 
> > > very cool feature ;).
> > You can? How's that work?
> 
> Hardware: Fn-PgUp, at least on an A22p.
> Software: dunno.

Software: ibm-acpi
cat /proc/acpi/ibm/light
echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light

..heh, just stumbled on a bug in ibm-acpi I guess. Both echo and cat
are hanging the shell. Oh well, I "almost-suspended" earlier, that's
probably why. But it works on a clean boot.


//Peter