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Two questions: 1. What sort of battery life do you get? I never get much more than 3 hrs, using p ...2012-11-22 00:05:32
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Cheers buddy, some real *great* photos of me there!!2012-11-15 12:49:20
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To make it boot from USB, I had to disable SDD booting completely (Shift-1 in boot sequence in BIOS) ...2012-11-05 09:34:12
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Nevermind. I just now learned about UNetbootin, etc. All's good. THANK YOU for posting all of thi ...2012-09-25 03:21:23
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I just got a series 9 and have connected a CD-ROM drive via USB and in BIOS told the system to boot ...2012-09-25 02:53:40
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@Jay. Replace the N with a number from 0-8.2012-09-19 18:41:36
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renato, Bluetooth works out the box. I just checked and the laptop pairs with my Android phone ...2012-09-03 21:59:26
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I had to disable fast boot in the BIOS and only then did it boot from the USB drive. I'm now running ...2012-09-01 23:18:25
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What's the Battery life like with all the latest patches?2012-08-24 14:49:04
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Is bluetooth working?2012-08-23 18:24:56
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Hi. I tried your command line as root, with and without the backslashes, and the terminal returns: ...2012-08-20 21:00:23
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smaug, yep the suspend issue is fixed for me in kernel 3.5.0.22012-08-12 17:29:41
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I think the latest kernel update to F17 fixed the suspend problem2012-08-07 13:34:48
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Thanks for the fix. I've been looking for this for long time2012-08-04 21:22:47
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Hi PJ, I have updated the script to fix the problem you had. Let me know if you are still hav ...2012-07-05 22:08:28
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Hey John, The script seems to throw some errors: ./vimeo_downloader.sh http://vimeo.com/37031 ...2012-07-05 12:03:02
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thanks for fixing it!2012-06-28 21:16:43
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Thanks for the fix my friend2012-06-25 20:05:41
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Just an update on the booting problem. I returned my laptop to amazon and got a new one and hey pres ...2012-06-07 10:17:28
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Hi, I'm trying to install fedora 17 on the series 9 but the fedora wont boot after installation, ...2012-05-30 16:11:15
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Thanks for the tip. I tried the right port first after reading that this is the one that can be ...2012-05-30 09:11:02
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ickleone, have you tried both the USB ports? I think only one is bootable (and I think it's the one ...2012-05-29 21:28:19
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Hi, I recently bought the samsung 900x3b after reading your installation notes. It all looked like i ...2012-05-29 15:24:11
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Thanks, that was just what I needed.2012-05-21 10:11:30
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For the trackpad issues on newer kernels in Fedora 16, an upgrade to the testing synaptics driver (v ...2012-05-14 04:07:24
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Thanks a lot. Any chance all of this works with Ubuntu 12.04? (in particular Lori Holden's scripts?)2012-04-28 09:24:37
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/s/schedular/scheduler/ :)2012-04-14 08:21:45
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Here is a /etc/rc.d/rc.local (make sure its executable) that takes care of setting up the machine fo ...2012-04-14 08:19:43
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And a few more minor tweaks - Palm detection was too low, right click area too far left. This time a ...2012-04-14 06:33:23
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I should mention, the actual package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.99.901-2.fc172012-04-14 06:11:28
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On a nightly build of Fedora 17 using the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics from the test updates repo I now ha ...2012-04-14 06:10:20
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Hi! Thank you for the review. I bought a samsung ultrabook, but it's the series 5 instead of the ...2012-04-06 22:13:04
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Hi Michael, I annoyingly bought my laptop too early to qualify for the VAT back promotion. I w ...2012-04-05 19:34:18
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Hi John, Thanks for the post; you have inspired me to buy one. Did you know that Samsung are runn ...2012-04-05 09:23:05
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Hello, Thanks for the post, it helped me with my series9. Do you know how I can use two finger ...2012-04-03 12:11:22
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Adam, That's the same with my laptop in Fedora. Closing the lid just turns the screen brightness ...2012-04-01 08:33:30
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Thanks for the informative post! I just got an NP900X3B myself and am running Ubuntu 12.04. Does y ...2012-03-31 20:59:53
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The output from sensors. This is under light load (chrome is the only programming running) and lapt ...2012-03-26 18:41:02
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How hot does it get while running? Should be able to use sensors to get a good reading.2012-03-26 18:09:41
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Hi Guy, I'll post another update in a few days, but: - 3D graphics is working (I'm running Gnome ...2012-03-25 06:34:20
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Thank you so much for posting your initial impressions. Seriously considering getting one. Can yo ...2012-03-25 05:56:44
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You rock! I've hit this problem and had trouble figuring out what CPAN magic elf was sick. Thanks!2012-03-01 17:24:57
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Looks good dude, why don't you hack a model m to be wireless? Real men use mechanical!2012-02-28 20:55:21
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Works perfect2012-01-21 16:22:28
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Great! It resolved dependencies again and recreated what missing. Thank you so much!2011-12-20 13:12:42
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Leos, you should just be able to delete the vxs.so file and cpan will work fine. See the section ab ...2011-12-20 11:55:38
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Thank you for your kind advise. But unfortunately, the cpan's "force install Crypt::Rijndael" fails ...2011-12-20 11:28:05
