[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Winsley von Spee]

Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 21:32 +0100 schrieb 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

Yes the stundent deals from IBM are a great offer. Hmm I have no probs
after suspend with the light. Wich version are using ?? mine is latest
0.8.

Greetz