Thanks I appreciate the info, I had almost decided to
go that way..
Carson
--- Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 09:47, Carson Wilcox wrote:
> > Well I called Dell and they told me that they do
> not
> > ship laptops preloaded with Linux :(.
> >
> > A question, does anyone have any experience
> running
> > Linux on Toshiba laptops?
>
> Older models worked great, newer models are
> something to avoid. They
> tend to use proprietary chips for things like
> PCMCIA, IR, Video etc and
> don't release the specs, particularly with their
> PCMCIA chipsets.
> Sometimes you can get them to work just fine,
> sometimes kind of and
> sometimes not at all. Virtually noone doing Linux
> laptop work (like the
> PCMCIA project guys, the IR guys, the USB guys, etc)
> recommend buying
> Toshiba.
>
> --
>
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> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
>
{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
>
$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
>
[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
>
"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
>
unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
>
>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
>
8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME
> \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> http://www.eff.org/
> http://www.anti-dmca.org/
>
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