Upon letting the battery charging for the night...

... it seems that it was decharged from before, but now it's running all right with 1h34 of autonomy announced.
And probably a lot less than that when reading DVDs, but I don't really intend to watch DVD while the laptop is not plugged.
Better than nothing, especially if it spares me to buy a new battery that would cost half the price of the computer itself...

o_O Matt Damon column

Entry from 8/17/1999 indicates :

( weird Phoenix related snippet )

(I'm just googling Liberty Phoenix and some weird things come up)