IBM ThinkPad T41: Upgrading RAM and HDD – pictures I now have pictures of the existing HDD and the RAM slot. A few days ago, I wrote about upgrading my laptop. Now that I know what hardware is already in there, it may help in deciding what new hardware will work best. Getting access The […]
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IBM ThinkPad T41: Upgrading RAM and HDD My current laptop is an IBM ThinkPad T41. It replaced the T22 which was stolen. At the time, many people donated cash to help me replace this unit. It was much appreciated. I’m reaching the limit of the HDD and the RAM. Some things crawl to a halt
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IBM ThinkPad T41 – a second battery I bought my my IBM ThinkPad T41 just over two years ago. It has performed well. This description by Lenovo is pretty accurate. I did replace the wireless NIC recently. Apart from that, the description is correct. On the Lenovo website (they bought the laptop production from IBM),
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IBM ThinkPad T41 – going from ipw(4) to ath(4) I have an IBM ThinkPad T41. It’s a great little laptop. It’s been very reliable, despite some initial hardware problems. One major problem has been the wireless NIC. I’ve been having problems with it for over a year. The original problem was a total system freeze.
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Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop IPsec is a tool you can use to secure your network communications. I use IPsec to ensure my wireless connections are secured. IPsec offers security and peace of mind over and above the traditional WEP and MAC-address filtering. NOTE: although this article was written with wireless communication in
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Secure Your Wireless with IPsec This article originally appeared on O’Reilly ONLamp. Wireless access is all the rage. Wireless this, wireless that. It’s everywhere. Hot spots are turning up everywhere. Many are free. Many are totally unsecured. There are several in my neighbourhood. I have no idea who is running them, but at least one
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IBM ThinkPad T41 This article describes how I installed FreeBSD 5.x on an IBM ThinkPad T41 so it dual-booted with the existing Windows XP Pro installation. Also described is: my dhclient.conf settings my Postfix configuration installing KDE from packages set up of xplanet installing the Project Evil work to use a Windows driver to get
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IBM ThinkPad T41 This article describes how I installed FreeBSD 5.x on an IBM ThinkPad T41 so it dual-booted with the existing Windows XP Pro installation. Also described is: my dhclient.conf settings my Postfix configuration installing KDE from packages set up of xplanet installing the Project Evil work to use a Windows driver to get
Stolen laptop – used on MSN? My stolen laptop has been used. At least I think so. Microsoft have been uncooperative in determining this point. I was sitting at my desktop last Thursday night when I was logged off my MSN Messenger session with a you have been logged out because you logged in on
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Laptop stolen My laptop was stolen yesterday. My IBM ThinkPad T22 (serial #: 786NKZP) was about two or three years old, but I had it for only 74 days. It came with Windows 98, and I added FreeBSD 5.2.1 to it so that it dual-booted. I added KDE 3.2.2 and OpenOffice. I had xplanet set