From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 11 0:19:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C1F37B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 00:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f4B7JDR18853 ; Fri, 11 May 2001 09:19:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id JAA89260 ; Fri, 11 May 2001 09:19:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:19:32 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Message-ID: <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010509133826.I82438@lpt.ens.fr> <20010510160433.A52244@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:17:07PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles said on May 10, 2001 at 18:17:07: > At 4:04 PM +0200 5/10/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > I'll probably not be going to England any time soon, and anyway I've > > heard that things are pretty expensive there... but I may travel a bit > > around other countries in the summer, and basically any schengen > > country is a possibility. > > If you can get to Paris, you can get to London in just another > three hours via Eurostar. My wife and I do it all the time -- it's > much better than the plane. I am in Paris. I need a visa, in advance. That's not true for EU citizens, I believe. It wouldn't be a problem getting a visa, probably, but when you factor in the cost of the eurostar (if you're in Paris, taking a plane is probably cheaper...) > Otherwise, you have to go through the kind of hell I did -- where > you buy the last remaining PowerBook G3 laptop available in any store > in the country, but it has a Belgian AZERTY keyboard, and they have I'll find out in a day or two... I did go to Surcouf yesterday (as DES suggested), and they did have an Acer model which they assured me was 100% linux-compatible (they'd never heard of FreeBSD) but I didn't think of asking about a qwerty keyboard. However, I'm willing to live with some solution like remapping the keys and pasting stickers on them... Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message