Cool people who use Thinkpads I noticed today

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lfeagan · #1 Post by **lfeagan** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:45 pm

Dudes! I found out something very cool just now that I hadn't known before, Eric S. Raymond uses a Thinkpad X40. And lots of other gurus of the land of computers happen to use Thinkpads also. Here is Eric S. Raymond's page on Fedora Core 2 on the X40 and how to resolve issues:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/eric ... nkpad_x40/

Other cool peepz over at Redhat also use Thinkpads...
http://people.redhat.com/jason/linux-thinkpad.html
This guy was from Harvey Mudd, thus why he is cool too.

Anyways, back to working on xosd and other such things with Suse 9.1.

Plinkerton · #2 Post by **Plinkerton** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:51 pm

Don't forget about me. I use a ThinkPad, and I'm up there with the coolest of them...

lfeagan · #3 Post by **lfeagan** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:05 pm

Ah yes...and of course everyone here at thinkpads.com too

monty cantsin · #4 Post by **monty cantsin** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:20 pm

lfeagan wrote:Other cool peepz over at Redhat also use Thinkpads...

He's by far the coolest, and also using an X-Series:

http://www-5.ibm.com/ch/franklin/images ... dpi_kl.jpg

And that's a photography of Atsushi Yamada, holding a frozen X23 into the camera on the Himalya:

http://www.ibm.com/news/cz/2003/05/yamada.jpg

califas · #5 Post by **califas** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:25 pm

In the last episode of The Apprentice, Jennifer's computer apeared to be a 600x.

ian · #6 Post by **ian** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:07 pm

I was walking past the mirror in my hallway when I caught a glimpse of a really cool guy with a T42...

k3vb0t · #7 Post by **k3vb0t** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:09 pm

ian wrote:I was walking past the mirror in my hallway when I caught a glimpse of a really cool guy with a T42...

That was so lame, but so enjoyable. Thank you.

lfeagan · #8 Post by **lfeagan** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:58 pm

In case you don't know who Eric S. Raymond is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

ian · #9 Post by **ian** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:15 am

k3vb0t wrote:
ian wrote:I was walking past the mirror in my hallway when I caught a glimpse of a really cool guy with a T42...
That was so lame, but so enjoyable. Thank you.

Well someone had to say it...

arion · #10 Post by **arion** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:48 pm

The cast of the Law & Order TV series use IBM ThinkPads

Plinkerton · #11 Post by **Plinkerton** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:31 pm

On the show? Or in real life?

I had to call SBC Global tech support today for my parents, and started talking to the tech guy. He used a ThinkPad. He said it was sitting right in front of him. That was kinda cool. Their tech support actually is very good. You can tell the guys just read out of a manual, but they are quick, and so [censored] cordial, I almost feel bad being blunt with them.

JHEM · #12 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:38 pm

ian wrote:I was walking past the mirror in my hallway when I caught a glimpse of a really cool guy with a T42...

What? Was I standing behind you?

Regards,

James

JHEM · #13 Post by **JHEM** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:10 pm

I was channel surfing before dinner and lo and behold, there was JLo herself sitting at a Thinkpad in the movie "Anaconda" on HBO.

I'm afraid that my inherent good taste prevented me from leaving the movie on long enough to determine what model it was!

Regards,

James

benplaut · #14 Post by **benplaut** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:50 am

a 701 "butterfly" was used in the movie "mission impossible"... by the bad guys

kadf88 · #15 Post by **kadf88** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:29 pm

a 701 "butterfly" was used in the movie "mission impossible"... by the bad guys

Thinkpads are so the 'bad guy' notebook though.. they're black!!

I think Powerbooks/iBooks would fit the 'good guy' notebook

#16 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:57 pm

On the TechTV show ScreenSavers, when Pat and Leo were still cohosts (back when I still watched the show), I think I saw Pat with a ThinkPad a couple of times.

Bob Collins · #17 Post by **Bob Collins** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:00 am

Going WOT now. TechTV is like MTV. They seem to no longer do what they started out doing. I never pass MTV with a video playing, nor do I see TechTV, in particular The Screen Savers never seem to cover anything other than games....

#18 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:49 am

Yeah, I know. Life is like a casserole, you put a bunch of good stuff into it, but then you leave it in the fridge only to find someone else ate it the next day. What was once a good network for people ranging from the everyday user needing some help all the way to the technology veteran who's been in the trenches since the days of punchcards, once an entertaining network with an effective and entertaining way of bringing technology knowledge to anyone is now nothing but anorexic girls playing games that noone has ever heard of. Apparently, Comcast think's I'd rather watch smeone else play the game as opposed to buying it myself.

Oh, for people who didn't watch TechTV before the Comcast merger, TechTV was not always about games. That was not until after the merger in late 2003 or early 2004 that the network became total crap.

Kenn · #19 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:18 am

kadf88 wrote: Thinkpads are so the 'bad guy' notebook though.. they're black!!

I think Powerbooks/iBooks would fit the 'good guy' notebook

I think that always is the case in movies...Remember, Apples have "The Power to Save the World" because you can use them to upload viruses to alien motherships.

CaptainMorgan · #20 Post by **CaptainMorgan** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:53 pm

AFAIK, Fox News Channel uses Thinkpads.. Shephard Smith can be seen often with his, however, FNC usually has a big fat FNC sticker covering the IBM logo on the lid.

doppelfish · #21 Post by **doppelfish** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:42 am

kadf88 wrote:Thinkpads are so the 'bad guy' notebook though.. they're black!!
I think Powerbooks/iBooks would fit the 'good guy' notebook

Indeed, You're not the first one to figure this out.

cheers,
-- fish

CaptainMorgan · #22 Post by **CaptainMorgan** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:08 am

doppelfish wrote:
kadf88 wrote:Thinkpads are so the 'bad guy' notebook though.. they're black!!
I think Powerbooks/iBooks would fit the 'good guy' notebook
Indeed, You're not the first one to figure this out.

cheers,
-- fish

Doppel, that article mentions nothing about Thinkpads.

mrdarcy · #23 Post by **mrdarcy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:24 am

Well, combine the "black clothing" and "Windows PC" I think that'll sum up to IBM thinkpad.

CaptainMorgan · #24 Post by **CaptainMorgan** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:13 am

mrdarcy wrote:Well, combine the "black clothing" and "Windows PC" I think that'll sum up to IBM thinkpad.

Sorry, no.

The article had no problem mentioning other manufacturers or brands. If the author wanted to, s/he very easily could've mentioned Thinkpads.

I don't buy the 'clothing mixed with Windows'. <<< Think about that logically.

entertrust · #25 Post by **entertrust** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:47 pm

ian wrote:I was walking past the mirror in my hallway when I caught a glimpse of a really cool guy with a T42...

Sorry everyone, I was just reading through some old threads and saw this funny post.

#26 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:37 pm

I use a ThinkPad, can that count as a cool person using a ThinkPad?

eigh · #27 Post by **eigh** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:32 am

Bob Collins wrote:Going WOT now. TechTV is like MTV. They seem to no longer do what they started out doing. I never pass MTV with a video playing, nor do I see TechTV, in particular The Screen Savers never seem to cover anything other than games....

i agree, back in the day, tech tv was good. now the old cast of "The Screen Savers" are doing a weekly podcast called "This Week in Tech", twit:

www.twit.tv

i like it alot, and from that site you can find all of their individual projects that they are still doing. kevin rose is trying to put out some cool shows over the web, and its just all around good stuff.

BigWarpGuy · #28 Post by **BigWarpGuy** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:11 am

If you go to http://www.techtv.com , it comes up as http://www.g4tv.com .

#29 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:04 pm

Yeah, and on the channel guide (or at least if you have Dish Network,) it no longer says TechTV, it says G4. On the channel itself, they no longer refer to it as G4 TechTV, just G4. It seems they want us to not realise TechTV ever existed, which ticks me off given how much better TechTV was.

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