Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:19:32 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Message-ID: <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p0510030bb7206bcc0e72@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:17:07PM %2B0200 References: <20010509133826.I82438@lpt.ens.fr> <p05100326b71f2d99792e@[194.78.241.123]> <20010510160433.A52244@lpt.ens.fr> <p0510030bb7206bcc0e72@[194.78.241.123]>
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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
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