Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-28 Thread Grant
What-ever you source for them, can I please ask you to think seriously about avoiding installing any MSWindows OS? The amount of botnets out there that hit my webservers is only getting worse and any IPs that I've scanned to investigate who the attackers are, I see them running MSWindows.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Saturday 27 April 2013 07:06:41 AM IST, Grant wrote: My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:05:06 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order to make them very functional. Plus most people are paying by the MB in Vanuatu and a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:05:06 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order to make them very

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 03:36, Grant wrote: My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone signals but I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Grant
I think the problem there is a Chromebook needs to be online in order to do much of anything, and the connection needs to be fast in order to make them very functional. Plus most people are paying by the MB in Vanuatu and a Chromebook must use a fair amount of data even on a fast

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Grant
My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone signals but I didn't meet anyone with a real

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 20:45, Grant wrote: *Someone* has all those netbooks that Westeners ditched in favour of iCraps, I recommend you look into who is now selling them 2nd hand. I should look to eBay, right? I reckon that's a good start. There are other companies around that sell refurbed

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Grant
*Someone* has all those netbooks that Westeners ditched in favour of iCraps, I recommend you look into who is now selling them 2nd hand. I should look to eBay, right? I reckon that's a good start. There are other companies around that sell refurbed machines, check those out too. I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 Apr 2013 22:09:38 Grant wrote: *Someone* has all those netbooks that Westeners ditched in favour of iCraps, I recommend you look into who is now selling them 2nd hand. I should look to eBay, right? I reckon that's a good start. There are other companies around

[gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-26 Thread Grant
My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone signals but I didn't meet anyone with a real smartphone.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Saturday 27 April 2013 06:33:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} laptops for a developing country (Vanuatu)

2013-04-26 Thread Grant
My wife and I recently visited Vanuatu (island of Santo) and fell in love with it. We got to know some locals pretty well and everybody is pining for laptops. Internet service is becoming widely available due to Digicel and TVL cell phone signals but I didn't meet anyone with a real