Posted by Doug
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:07:00 GMT
I’ve admired the Apple
displays for quite a while. Just recently they’ve announced a new model and lowered prices across the board. The
20” Cinema display is 1680×1050 and only $1300. They’ve reduced the price of the
23” HD Cinema display has been lowered to an even $2000 for 1980×1200. Yes, that’s still a lot of money. However, for large
LCD flat panels that’s a really good price. At work we pay about $2500 for an
NEC 20”
LCD that only displays 1280×1024.
Image © 2003 Apple Computer, Inc.
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Posted by Doug
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:20:00 GMT
My ThinkPad has built in 802.11b wireless ethernet (WiFi?). It’s based on a chipset from Harris Semionductor (at least that’s what lspci tells me) and uses the hermes and orinoco_pci Linux drivers. Periodically it just quits working. I’ve written a little ResetWifi script that unloads all the Linux drivers and then reloads them. It’s pretty annoying. I always thought it was a Linux driver issue. However, last night I was playing NWN and my wifi card quit on me! That means if it’s a driver issue, the MS-Windows 2000 driver has the same issue. So, I’m betting it’s some firmware issue (or maybe just plain old bad hardware?).
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