From: Ronald W. Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 15:16:48 EDT
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Wednesday, April 04, 2001, 12:18:14 PM, Michael wrote:
> Good guess. They are S-video input and output.
They seem to be the same size, but different pin configuration than
any S-video cable I've ever seen. Does the fact that they include only
one adapter mean that 1) IBM is cheap; or 2) I can't do input and
output at the same time?
> It is telling you that the Ultrabay 2000 is powered up and you should
> not
Thanks. I was looking for info on it in the PCMCIA section. I just
looked through the "CD- or DVD-ROM drive" section, going through
swapping, warm swap, etc. I would never have figured out that LED
based on this material. I see no diagram with an arrow or number
pointing anywhere near the LED at the bottom front corner of the PC
Card slots. Where should I be looking for this information?
> To change the program that's launched by the ThinkPad button, use
> RegEdit to go to this registry key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\TPHOTKEY\8001
> and change the "File" value to point to whatever program you want.
Cool! Thanks! I see a bunch of other sub-keys under TPHOTKEY. Are any
of them useful for customization?
> Power switch for five seconds should always work. There is no other
> reset button. If all else fails, you can always remove AC and battery.
Too bad. Thanks.
> Both shift keys work the same for me. Maybe you did do something to your
> keyboard configuration, but I don't know what. What does the Input
> Locales page in the Keyboard control panel say?
I don't see a Keyboard control panel. I am currently logged in as
"heiby", rather than "Administrator", but I had given "heiby"
Administrator privs.
In the "Regional Options" control panel, there is "Your locale" on its
"General" tab, which says, "English (United States)". In the "Language
settings for the system, the only box checked is "Western Europe and
United States (Default)". In the same control panel, the "Input
Locales" tab has "Input language" of "English (United States)" and
"Keyboard layout/IME" of "US". Below, "Press CAPS LOCK key" is
selected "To turn off Caps Lock". Below that, "Hot keys for input
locales" has both "Switch between input locales" and "Switch to
English (United States) - US" set with a "Key sequence" of "(None)".
> I recommend you check out VMware. (www.vmware.com). This will let you
> run Linux and Win2K at the same time instead of dual-booting. Very
> slick.
Thanks. I do plan to get that, but my thinking had been along the
lines of having Linux be my primary boot environment, and running a
Windows session within VMWare under Linux. I planned to keep a fairly
minimal Win2K bootable partition around for things like playing DVD
movies or demonstrating that hardware failures were not caused by
running Linux. If I could be convinced that Win2K Professional was as
stable as Linux, I might consider the reverse approach. (Too bad a
single license payment does not allow going both directions. I think
it would be useful to be able to run Windows under Linux and Linux
under Windows, depending on what my primary needs were at any given
time.)
Although I find the idea of having primary boot into Linux
intellectually and emotionally attractive, if Win2K doesn't lock up or
crash any more often than once every week or two, it might be worth
putting up with that level of instability to not have to do quite so
much messing around with finding and configuring Linux drivers.
With Win98SE, it was no contest. Win98SE hangs or crashes for me
typically 5-10 times per week. We had a Linux system here that stayed
up running software development for about three months, before I did a
graceful shutdown before a severe storm came through. On the same
Win98SE TP770ED that often runs Win98SE, I have had pretty good luck
with Red Hat 6.2 (except when the system is docked, the subject for a
future message thread).
Any feeling for how stable Win2K Pro is?
Ron.
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