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Somewhere on teh intarwebs John Navas wrote:


[snip OT spam]

Here was me thinking that your second post might have been an "Ooops, sorry
folks, wrong newsgroup" type of post.

 

Newsgroup ibm.ibmpc.thinkpad is Android-free.

Tony

 

Thanks Tony, I'll see if my NNTP host carries it.

 

By your self-important definition the vast majority of Internet News,
measured either by newsgroup count or by posting volume, is "rogue".

Tony

 

Mine doesn't. It's not an official NG, apparently. The AT&T servers carried it, but they're out of the NNTP biz. :-(

LOL! Sometimes, it even does a "military wipe".

 

Calm down, even posting that just once would already have been too many.

I thank you for complimenting me on something I never wrote but that post of
yours was "relevant" to nothing except to your own hypocrisy.

You wrote the charter of this group which says:

"The following types of posts are prohibited:
* Off-topic (not directly related to ThinkPad laptop computers)"

http://tinyurl.com/2vnaza4

Because I am happy to discuss Thinkpads anywhere with anyone.

Tony - now typing on an X60s.

 

Ditto Tony. I have four ThinkPads on my desk, two more in a drawer and one
in a carry-bag fully charged and ready to go, several of which I bought as
'parts' and built back up. I subscribe here for the same reason that I
joined forums.thinkpad.com, I'm always ready to learn more about ThinkPads
and help anyone who is having trouble with a ThinkPad if I can.

Shaun - now typing on a T60 type 2007-7KU.

 

I checked, mine does and apparently I've already posted there. (Damn
cross-posts!)

Grrrr! <g> I know it's often said but, in all truth, reading that with a
mouthful of coffee and a cup to my lips nearly cost me dearly.

 

Fear not! eternal-september.org carries it. And since it 1) is free 2)
has stellar coverage of the text groups and 3) supports SSL, I'd
heartily recommend it for pretty much everything but binaries.

 

Maybe I'll try a different server. I don't want to pay for it if I don't have to. Income's fixed; I'm broke.

It's why I don't drink anything but purified water at the computer. Spit takes can be a pain.

 

Thanks, Robert. I might just wander over there.

 

Yeah, me too mate, me too. Invalid on welfare here.

I see in your other post that Robert's pointed you in the same direction I
went, Eternal September. Not only an excellent free service but a great name
for a usenet providor.

 

Yep. Same here. Social Security Disability.

Yes, and here I am! First news server I've seen that does SSL encryption. I like it. Makes me feel like my cyber-tush isn't hanging out in the wind.

 

Sorry to hear it. It can be more of an existence than a 'life' sometimes.
:-(

Cool! Good news then.

 

Actually, it seems that I do just a little bit better all the time. It has
more to do with falling prices of my favorite toys, maybe, but I usually
have a little left over to play with, after the bills are paid, etc.
F'rinstance, since April, I've been able to buy a new internal hard drive
for the desktop, upgrade it to WinXP Pro SP3, double its memory, buy a
Kensington Expert Mouse for it (had the Version 4.0 back in the '90s, and
loved it, but had to give it up when Win98SE wouldn't support it), and a
portable HP SimpleSave drive, primarily for the ThinkPad, but I'm using it
on the desktop, too. Oh, and a couple of 4GB flash drives, because they
were such a good deal. My ham radio hobby feels abandoned, but all three of
my rigs are working well, so no biggie there.

I'm working on that. I had bariatric surgery (gastric bypass) in March, and
I'm getting into the "eat to live" frame of mind, not "live to eat", as
before. As of yesterday, I've lost 89 pounds since my heaviest in February.
Feeling great, too! Type-2 diabetes is resolving, blood pressure is
almost to the point where I don't need that medicine, either, and I've been
off the inhalers for a couple months, now. Still over 100 pounds to go
before I'm where I want to be, but it's coming!

 

My hobby is my computers. I switched from desktops to laptops about 2 years
ago, ostensibly as a power saving thing. Previously I used to make my own
desktops, initially from other people's cast-offs, then from (mostly) new
parts. I'd build machines for some hard-core gamers I know and, as payment,
take the parts from their old machines. These year-old graphics cards etc.
were still way more powerful than I needed.

When I was thinking of moving to laptops I asked a couple IT professionals
and was told that, for second-hand and for the ability to 'work on' them as
well as reliability you couldn't go past ThinkPads.

I have five working ThinkPads at the moment, three T60s (two with Flexview
screens), an R51 (FlexView) and an R40. I've also built up and sold ona
couple other R51s and similar, buying them as 'parts kits' and then making
three out of four (or similar). I play on-line games where I can have up to
four characters in the same game (Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction) and
previously I'd use four desktops with a couple KVMs. Now I just have
laptops.

I bake my own whole wheat bread and it constitutes around 80% of my diet,
taking the place of all other 'carb filler' components of meals. It's an
extremely healthy bread, I started baking it as an alternative to gagging
down the amount of 'soluble fibre' supplements I had to take to keep gastric
health while taking opiod painkillers.

It progressed for there to include a large %age of freshly ground flax seed
(amongst many other things) and my health has never been better. In my 50th
year my cholesterol levels and profile are the best that they've been in my
life and I weigh less now than I've weighed since I was 14 years old. I've
been able to stop taking several medications by developing and eating my
'staff of life' bread so that it's as nutritionally complete as possible. It
tastes great too!

 

I've built my own desktops for quite a while, but my next one, if I don't go
laptop, will probably be a Lenovo or Dell box already put together. I'll
have to compare features, prices, and the amount of garbageware I'd have to
deal with on the pre-built boxes.

Yep. That was one of my deciding factors when I bought the laptop I have,
now. Another one was the TrackPoint. If Lenovo ever gets rid of that, I'm
going to be bummed. I *hate* touchpads!

Nice. I've just got the one R51 that's readily usable. I have an ancient
ThinkPad from back in the 486 days, but I can't tell you what the model or
type numbers are right off, and it's buried in the closet. I did use my R51
as a desktop replacement, temporarily, when I had to rebuild this box a few
years ago. I hooked my 19" display, trackball, speakers, etc., up to it,
using the docking station, and became rather fond of having such a cool and
quiet computer as the main one. At the time, it only had the stock 40GB (I
think it was) hard drive and CD-ROM, since upgraded to 80GB and DVD burner,
respectively. I may be asking here (or in the other NG) later about how
much capacity the R51's BIOS can handle, assuming I can find a PATA hard
drive for it anymore. Lenovo only supports 80GB for that machine, but if
the BIOS can handle more, I might as well do more. Its only drawback right
now, other than drive capacity, is the 1.7GHz processor.

Oh, I'd be dangerous if I made my own bread! Nothing like fresh baked
bread, but it cries out for butter! :-(

 

That is, assuming they give you an OS install disk, and not that
God-forsaken restore and recovery partition. That's one good thing about
rolling your own. You buy an OEM copy of your favorite OS, and you know
what's there. Of course, with Linux coming on so strong, I probably won't
go beyond WinXP Pro SP3.

In all of the Lenovo E-mails I get, I always look for that little telltale
"nub" on the keyboard.

Very nice. That beats my desktop, aside from the hard drive space. Total
on this box is ~1.5TB on two drives, if you don't count the externals.
I put my old 120GB internal into an external enclosure, and I bought a
little HP SimpleSave 640GB drive. The HP was primarily for the laptop, but
I've had it sitting here on the desktop for several weeks. Maybe I'll get
me another one for the desktop, remove the desktop backups from this one,
and put this one with the laptop.

 

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Tom Rutherford wrote:
[snip]

My R51 runs a 160GB Seagate, the best price-point for a large HDD I could
find at the time.