I have already had the laptop replaced a few times but with no avail... I hopefully am going to start uni next year and I will be entitled to the Disabled Students Allownace Grant thnigy for new equipment so a new laptop will deffinatly be on the cards.
It is insured until the 13th of Feb Next Year.....i think there may be am accident involing it sooner than that though ;-) Cos it had been problem after problem with this laptop. But I suppose that�s life I will try to install linux on the laptop sometime today / tomorrow and will keep yous informed on how I get on. Thanks Welby -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Millar Sent: 10 November 2001 00:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scottish] Laptop with a dodgy slow HDD Hi Welby, If I may point out the obvious, you seem to have been sold a lemon. This doesn't surprise me of Evesham. My guess (emph. on the guess bit) is something is wrong at a more fundamental level than just the hard-disk, such as the motherboard (or laptop equiv). I think you should have a word with Evesham and strongly suggest they replace your laptop with a completely new one. RE syncronisation, you may be able to sync your handheld under Linux, depending on it's type. Its native OS doesn't necessarily matter. Try searching "handheld-name linux" with Google. Dono about ICQ, MSN and graphical IDEs. I use gcc, emacs and make files like God intended, and they work great. Cheers, Paul. On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Welby McRoberts wrote: > Hello, > I don't remember if I've posted to this lug list b4 but hello if I > didn�t :-) > I Have a Evesham Micros Voyager 6000 Laptop. It has been back to MiTAC ( > the people that Evesham buy laptops off to resell) more times than I've > had hot dinners. Each time they have replaced the laptops HD the last > one did not caused major problems with every os. Nothing would install! > They have recently replaced it with a slower & smaller drive. Windows > 98 (as supplied with the computer) is running slower than normal and so > I am contemplating changing OS. I am just wondering if there would be > any problems with running Linux (I was given a few Linux CD's the other > day) on the computer. It�s a PIII 500 with 128mb of ram. 6.4GB of HD. I > would however need to keep windows on the machine because I have a > _shudder_ WindowsCE handheld computer and I need to use a few programs > like avantgo and Outlook to synchronise with the WinCE device. > > I currently use ICQ & MSN and I am wondering if it would be possible to > still be able to use these in linux.( I currently use a proxy server on > one of my other machines @ home) > > Also I would like to know if there is any Graphical C(++) compilers for > linux. And If not is it easy to compile programs using a command line? > > Thanks In Advance > Welby > > -- > ''' > (0 0) > +----oOO----------(_)-----------------+ > | Welby McRoberts | > |E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > |MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > |ICQ : 15198136 | > |Mobile: 07751 238 390 | > +------------------------oOO----------+ > |__|__| > || || > oooO Oooo > > Windows: Just another pain in the glass. :-D > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Paul Millar yo-yo, n. : Particle Physics Theory Group Something that is occasionally Department of Physics and Astronomy up but normally down. University of Glasgow, (see also Computer) Glasgow G12 8QQ, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scotland +44 (0)141 330 4717 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
