On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 22:16, Ian Bruntlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Liam, > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 20:59, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> FWIW, it takes up to 2GB... >> >> http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/toshiba-nb250-107/ >> >> ... and you can probably pick up a 2GB SO-DIMM for peanuts. E.g. £1.50 from >> CEX: >> >> https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=2gb%20ddr3 > > > I had a dig around and found a 2GiB SO-DIMM, fitted it this evening - and ran > memtest86+ with no errors.
Great stuff! I have upgraded a couple of old netbooks this way. They were usually not very fussy about RAM, as the Atom was quite a low-performance CPU and the chipset is similarly not high-end. E.g. no RAM interleaving or anything. > Did some testing of LibreOffice. Basically, it is a Java problem. If I go to > Tools -> Advanced in, say, LibreOffice Calc, I can disable the use of a JDK > and once that it set, LibreOffice Writer starts working again. Some bits of LO and OpenOffice before it were written in Java. Not much -- e.g. some import/export filters. You could install a JVM -- the FOSS IcedTea runtime is in the Ubuntu repos. It won't take a lot of space and will enable a few more things to work. I use some Java text editors myself, for instance. I think if you do: sudo apt install icedtea-web ... that should pull in the current IcedTea JVM. Then you can check with: java -version ... at a shell prompt. > Thanks for the CEX tip. Looked at the website and it was very interesting. I've sold quite a lot of old kit to CEX over the years: many old mobile phones, routers, stuff like that. I took payment in vouchers and it enabled me to max out the RAM on a few computers, put a max-capacity MMC card in my smartphone, buy original copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard which I ran both on a real Mac mini and on a Hackintosh I built, and finally contributed towards an old iPad 2 for my mum, which she liked a lot. Later I got her an iPad 3 from them, and the iPad 2 went to a family friend who's still using it some years later. They're a very useful company. There are a few international branches, too. Disclaimer -- the 3 co-founders were personal friends of mine, and I worked there for all of a week in about 1996. But sadly they 2 co-owners are both dead now, and I have no connection at all with the company any more. The third, Charlie Brooker, who did all their original branding, advertising and so on, is now a famous TV writer (Black Mirror, etc.) and no longer associates with his old mates at all. :-( -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
