[ale] Way to go Lenovo (not)

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 13:33 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 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.

Probably even more so on the smart phones than the laptops. New phone is
a One+ running cyanogen 11. The t-mobile sales staff tried very hard to
buy it from me :-) Poor guy flipped when he saw I had 3.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.
>         
>         ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS
>         from known
>         good media.
>         
>         But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a
>         critical
>         machine.
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>         > On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:
>         > >
>         http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
>         >
>         > And once you read that article, read their corporate
>         statement.
>         > http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929
>         >
>         >
>         >
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/