Posts tagged “Lenovo”
New extended life battery for my T61; or, holy crap I’m mobile again!
So my dinky default (6-cell I believe, maybe 4-cell) battery that came with my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 has been giving out on me. I believe my problem was I never flexed the battery when I first got it and now I was only getting about an hours worth of work out of my laptop. While [...]
Lenovo Expanding ThinkPad Linux Offerings
Matt Kohut posted on the Lenovo corporate blogs a very good sign of industry Linux support. According to Kohut, Lenovo will be expanding its Linux offerings not just by expanding their preloaded selection, but by porting the ThinkVantage software (their “Craplet but Not Craplet” driver/application suite) to Linux. Normally all I see as far as [...]
It’s HERE!
Holy crap my ThinkPad T61 got here FAST! Lenovo informed me on Wednesday that my laptop was shipped, cool right? Shipped from Hong Kong. I had 2 day shipping so sweet, I get my laptop on Friday. Nope, Thursday morning. At 10. A.M. First thing I did of course was completely obliterate vista (I downgraded [...]
Impatient (and other things)
I don’t really have a particularly programming themed idea for a post today, however I’ll have one up very soon (this weekend), discussing tackling web payments and using OOP to simplify. I have some code I’ve been meaning to post, though I think my PayPal object may not see the light of day (with about [...]