Laptops

Travelling Netbook - protection against unauthorised access
What's the risk of someone hacking into my netbook or monitoring / capturing traffic whilst say I'm in Starbucks or McDonalds? These offer free wifi connections using The Cloud or whatever. These connections are unsecured by WPA or WEP etc. Also how can I protect the netbook from unauthorised access whilst online? ... 25 Mar 2010 22:00

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I fell in love with the net and all the compuiter teahcnology in the very early years and have loved it ever since, I have an IT Degree and Communications degree and will be working on my doctorate for the next five years, in bwetween I design websites, databases, Multimedia Produxction or anything that wil make me a p... 23 Mar 2010 02:21

Windows 7 computer image question
Sorry if this is the wrong group. I have a broken thinkpad laptop. I want to take the windows 7 image (ghost 8 or an open source drive image xml program don't remember which) I have for it and put it on another laptop. Problems? (not much experience with windows 7 yet). I don't have the install disk or license num... 21 Mar 2010 16:12

Netbooks with full-size keyboards?
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:40 -0800, mike <spamme0(a)go.com> wrote: mm wrote: Does anyone know what netbooks have full-size keyboards? (I guess counting only the keys that make characters on the screen. That is not counting F-keys and arrows etc.) Is that the search word I should include in searc... 17 Mar 2010 22:18

Where got 20 inch laptop for sale?
anyone know where got laptop with 20 inch lcd screen for sale? search in Amazon, shopping.hp.com, laptopdirect.co.uk...and some other website but couldn't find any 20in laptop. thanks --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- ... 14 Apr 2010 15:33

A lenovo USB kvm port replicator question.
I'm looking at a new Lenovo laptop and want a docking station with it for use with my big monitor, kbd and mouse and ethernet. The only choice this laptop model gives me is this item: ThinkPad USB Port Replicator with Digital Video Described here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss... 17 Mar 2010 19:58

A general query re. netbooks
I use a desktop at home and want to get a small laptop or netbook for use of up to 4 hours. The spec doesn't have to be fancy - just enough to run Windows/Ubuntu, don't need massive disk storage, to be honest 80GB is more than enough, but 2GB ram would be useful for running multiple apps or having about ten windo... 19 Mar 2010 10:46

Which is the best laptop in the town?
Which is the best laptop on date? Features I am looking for:- 1. Feather weight 2. Processing Faster than light 3. Run graphic applications 4. Unlimited Space, with guaranteed data preservation 5. WiFi and all inbuilt addons 6. Robust, can handle a sever accident 7. Unlimited life 8. Unlimited battery life ... 23 Apr 2010 21:01

Getting Remote Assistance to work
On 15/03/2010 03:02, mike wrote: I'm sittin' here with two xpprosp3 computers on the same router. On the controlling computer, I click "remote desktop connection". I enter the password. That's not remote assistance ... You are using remote desktop. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsuppor... 23 Mar 2010 08:58

Dell Latitude Screen Replacement
Can Anybody tell me whether the high voltage inverter is interchangeable between a latitute 810 and a 620? ... 17 Mar 2010 23:24