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I came across interesting news recently that Seoul is planning to donate used computers or pre owned computer and various other electronic components to Filipinos in the month of September.  Even though they are pre owned or used they are said to be in a good condition and is expected to be distributed to many of the state universities, colleges and public secondary schools through the commission on higher education and department of education all across Philippines. The website http://www.bestusedcomputers.info has a complete info about donation of used computers.

Nearly three thousand pieces of equipments including electronics, machinery, automobile, chemical engineering and architectural design would be donated by the Sung-gi vocational schools of Korea to many of the local institutions.

The Philippines government and people have welcoming the donation as they strongly feel that the electronic equipments and used computers would be of great use to many of the Filipinos who require training in automobile, chemical engineering, electronics and architectural design.  Training for the above would be given by the technical education and skills development authority.  

Return the noble gesture, manila has decided to offer English language training to nearly fifty Korean teachers as presently Filipino English teachers are not allowed to provide these courses to Koreans.  Only citizens of United States, New Zealand and Australia are enabled to teach English language in Korea.

First set of Korean teachers would be taking the training this month for nearly two months and the next set of teachers are expected to come in the year 2009 in the month of February.

I consider this gesture as a very useful one and that propagates love and consideration for the fellow human beings that many other developed nations should also take this as an example and try to help poor or developing nations worldwide.

Many people find laptop shopping to be a bit of a chore. In previous years, the selections available would always leave one wanting more. This has changed in 2003 with Apple, Compaq, Dell, Toshiba, and IBM all producing svelte yet powerful laptops, making the past dreams of a true desktop replacement a reality. IBM T42

Excellent battery life usually is near the top of any list of must-have laptop features, with a good warranty a close second. My previous laptop had been a Gateway Solo 2500 which gave me about 3 hours of battery life when I first purchased it. The Solo 2500 also had a great warranty (which came in handy one more than one occasion). So with these requirements in mind, it was time to score a new portable. When the dust settled there was one laptop still standing: The IBM ThinkPad T40 Series. After reading about the prowess of its Pentium M CPU and excellent battery life, we were excited about buying ours and digging in. IBM ThinkPad T40

The laptop
We decided ultimately on the T40 2373-91u. The full specs on the machine are as follows:

Pentium M 1.6 Ghz
512 MB PC2100 DDR
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB, 4200rpm
14.1″ SXGA (1400×1050)
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 / 32 Meg
Intel Pro1000 gigabit Ethernet chipset
56k V.92 modem
CD-RW/DVD Combo DRIVE IBM T40 
Usually the first remark you hear about the T40 is that it is built like a tank. Indeed, the rumors are true. While it is not completely indestructible, I have no fears about my T40 getting damaged in any minor calamity. While the lid gives a little when twisted, its magnesium alloy construction makes it nowhere near as malleable as the plastic on most laptops. The lid is attached to the base with two large metal hinges, and it would take a lot to break them off. The lid is also designed so its edges come around the base a little when it is closed. This provides a little more assurance against injury when you throw it in your bag.

All T40 models have dual USB 2.0 ports, S-video out, dual PCMCIA ports, and a parallel port. I would have loved to have seen FireWire standard on this notebook, but I don’t think the omission is anywhere near being a deal breaker. The other drawback to the T40 is that only one of the memory slots is user-accessible. So you might want to max out the base RAM when ordering.

As far as software goes, the T40 is light in that department. The laptop comes preinstalled with Windows XP SP1, Norton A/V (Trialware), IBM recordnow (a.k.a., Stomp Recordnow), and Acrobat Reader. Most of the other applications IBM included basically duplicate the functionality of other programs. One example is the IBM Update Connector, which updates drivers and IBM software. We could not think of a reason to use this instead of Windows Update. Another odd inclusion is IBM Access Support. This software includes a handful of diagnostics and troubleshooters for the computer, which do about the same thing as the troubleshooters in Windows Help. In general, Windows comes with better software to do the same things all of the IBM software does. Fortunately, you are in no way forced to use any of these utilities. At least IBM does not load the system with apps that just waste away in the system tray.92P1011 6600mAh

There was no media packaged with the laptop, so in the case of total hard drive disaster, you are required to call IBM. What you get instead is a restore partition on the hard drive. This makes it easier for a large company to deploy their own images for easy restoring, but to the average user it means you pay for 6GB of disk space you can’t use without reformatting. It also means that if you have a hard drive failure, you will be SOL. Fortunately, IBM will speedily send you a restore CD if you request one from tech support, or will send you a new hard drive if it is completely unusable. It would be nice if you could request to have it shipped with the computer.

One of the things to keep in mind about the ibm thinkpad t40 series t40 series is that it is designed in many ways for being deployed in droves across a large business. Features like Access IBM are more useful to large IT departments than to individuals who just want a laptop.

The ThinkPad comes with a standard three-year limited warranty, with a one-year warranty on the battery; pretty much standard issue. If you so desire, a more comprehensive warranty is available, which provides for next-day on-site repair. Past experience with the IBM warranty department has been pretty good, they are very hands-off, no off-base questions asked.

Lapotp Battery Worldwide

Something is still wrong with my laptop. I was just sitting there and all of the sudden the screen went black. I turned it off and turned it back on and still nothing. I let it sit, turned off, for like 3 minutes and finally when I turned it back on, it started working again. I had to buy a cooling fan for it yesterday because it gets so hot and I thought maybe it shut down like that because it overheated. I also though maybe it's because I need to clean out the vents, but I can't be sure.

 

I just feel like giving up on it. I can't afford to fix it anymore or buy a new computer and my parents can't keep charging shit to their credit card. It devestates me, but what else can I do? All I want my computer for is to watch anime and talk to people... that's all. Apparently, I can't even have that.

 

I guess I've become dependent on the computer, because I don't enjoy real life very much. I like computer-generated life better, but because of this current situation, I'm being thrusted, head-on into a world that I have trouble living in. It's pathetic, I know. Maybe I will just... give up.

Hey Kids!

Our Laptop is back... FINALLY!

I think I finally have a plan too for like, my life.

I am going to go to college for biology or chemistry, and also education.

Wahaha!

I think I will be a high school bio/chem teacher.

I want to go to Montana for college too...

My Uncle John Lives out there.

So, when they kick you out of the dorms, I will have somewhere to go.

I just want to go away...I mean, I love being with my family and will miss everyone here, but I really want to have that one big going away when you can do whatever you want.

And if I am a teacher, I won't have to live in the city.

That is what I do not want to do.

I want to live near a small town, in a HUGE brick house. With lots of trees, and a pond and horses, like my house now.

 : D
And the way I look at it, my parents have no money put away whatso ever, so I can pretty much do whatever, I mean, within reason, that I want because  I will be in debt anyway.

 

And, this may sound stupid, but I actually like Dan enough to consider him in the future...

But who knows!

 

SO.

Things with Dan and I have been going well.

Yay.

My Birthday is on the 24th.

YAY!
I'll be 17.

Wacha.

I need to fill out all the applications for college.

Ciao,

Mariah

: D