<div dir="ltr"><div>Yep. Lenovo makes pretty good linux hardware though. My current laptop is a Lenovo, and it runs Debian Slink jus' fine. I even have the spiffy Nvidia graphics card in there. The Debian drivers handle it well also. Your advice is just as pertinent for cell phones, BTW.<br><br>The old R51 is still goin' strong from 2005, although I recently had to replace the clock battery. Bought one ready-made on ebay, but it was already dead. So I soldered a hideous little connector to some sheet copper and glued that to a CR2032 with wire glue. Then I got to remove /replace 18 screws, the keyboard, and the keyboard bezel to install it (again). All's well that ends well, I suppose.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.<br>
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ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from known<br>
good media.<br>
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But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical<br>
machine.<br>
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On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
> > <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/</a><br>
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> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.<br>
> <a href="http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929" target="_blank">http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929</a><br>
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