Category: tc1100 tablet
Am I being scammed?
July 19th, 2006, 15 Comments
So today my auction for the tc1100 tablet PC ended. The winning bidder: Is registered to eBay with a Malaysia address Wants me to ship to a Nigeria address (I specifically said in the auction that I do ship internationally, but I ship only to PayPal verified addresses — and I doubt that anybody in [...]
Brightness
June 17th, 2005, 6 Comments
I discovered by accident today that the scroll switch on the top of the unit will adjust the screen brightness in X. It doesn’t seem to work in the console, and I’ve done nothing to tell X about it, but it works. Woohoo. Combined with that and laptop-mode and powernowd, I think I’m going to [...]
Unsolved Tablet Mysteries
June 16th, 2005, 3 Comments
Things I’m not sure how to do yet: Adjust the brightness of the tc1100 screen in Linux Display xvkbd (or another on-screen keyboard) when the display has been locked via xscreensaver or KDE’s screensaver Make sure the ACPI thermal settings are correct Find a journaling filesystem that behaves well with laptops About the ACPI settings… [...]
Tablet PC So Far
June 16th, 2005, 1 Comment
As I mentioned earlier, I purchased an HP tc1100 tablet PC. It arrived earlier this week and I’ve been playing with it. Here are some of my initial impressions: Debian stable (sarge) installed easily. The tc1100 has no optical drive, and I have no USB optical drive either. It also wouldn’t boot from a CF [...]
I’m Buying a Tablet
June 10th, 2005, 1 Comment
Thanks to the advice both from comments here, and from e-mails I’ve received (thanks!), I’ve ordered a HP tc1100 tablet. Woohoo. I do hope that the Linux ACPI support for it is ironed out by the time it arrives :-)
Going Back to School and Tablet PCs
June 7th, 2005, 5 Comments
Back in 1999, due to changing employment situations, I moved to Dallas, and then to Indiana. I’m back in Kansas now, and figure it’s about time I finish my computer science degree. I’ve got a full-time job now, though, so this means evening classes. Not all that much fun, but hey, it works. One thing [...]
