From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 11 0:34:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270EA37B422 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 00:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f4B7XjO00344; Fri, 11 May 2001 09:33:49 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010509133826.I82438@lpt.ens.fr> <20010510160433.A52244@lpt.ens.fr> <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:33:24 +0200 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 9:19 AM +0200 5/11/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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...) I'm not sure who needs what visas in advance to go to what countries. Obviously, this depends on what country/ies you are a citizen of, etc.... A US citizen does not need a visa in advance to go to any European country I know of -- your passport is effectively an automatic six month tourist visa. Now, if you want to go there and stay longer than that, you might have a problem. But I don't think that this would be the case if you just wanted to buy a laptop. > 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. If you want to come up to Brussels and look around, let me know. I do not personally know where all the big computer stores are, but I've got some former co-workers that I think would still talk to me, and they should know where they are. They should also have an idea of what laptops work with Linux (and presumably would work with FreeBSD), since they have laptops at work with Linux on them. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message