On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, betty <
nicepenguin@webcanine.com> wrote:
> memory;
> my computer uses sd ram, and i mistakenly (twice) stupidly bought ddr
> ram, so i have a 512 mb and a 256mb ddr ram sticks that i cannot use.
> would anyone want to trade for any old 256 or greater sd ram they may
> have just hanging around??? i can mail or pickup (if on the far west side).
>
> hardware information:
> i went from feisty to hardy and noticed that there is no longer
> "system-preferences-hardware information" in the gui. i miss this since
> i'm not good at remembering those things. is there a way to find that
> same info either in gui or cl??
> (otherwise i am super happy w/hardy)
>
> OT
> palm pre:
> any ideas on if the palm pre will play well with linux like the treo 650
> does?
>
> THANKS
>
> --
> betty i.
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I miss it too as do many other people. One halfway reasonable
alternative from the command line is:
sudo lshw -html > ~/Desktop/lshwout.html
which makes a file you can open with a browser. If you are only
interested in a subset of the information you can specify that. See
the man page for lshw.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
what they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt
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