Re: [Hampshire] Anyone want a duplex unit for an HP multifunction?printer ?
On Sun, Jan 15 at 05:22, David Fish wrote: Hi Do you still have the duplex unit if you have i would like it. I have a duplexor for a HP4550 laserjet if that is of any use to anyone. Actually have the broken guts of the printer as well. The result of putting two broken ones together to make one good one. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?
I've always found the staff at Novatech very techincally aware. I was in the Reading Store recently sorting out a case and cooler for my Vmware ESXi server. I got lots of help making sure that the bits I bought were going to fit together (Heatsink not too tall). I now have a 6 core AMD based rig with 32Gb of Ram + 9Tb of disk running 8-10 Virtual machines. Jacqui is right, they might have answered as they did because you have to remember that the MS Offices are less than half a mile away as the crow flies. Stephen D -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?
On Monday 16 January 2012 16:34:05 Stephen Davies wrote: I've always found the staff at Novatech very techincally aware. And very helpful. In addition, I have several times had helpful advice about Linux; and Linux using Novatech staff sometimes showed up on the Linux Novatech forum. (Probably still do - I haven't used it recently myself.) Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
Well, I have bought a new laptop now. One of these in fact... Fujitsu Lifebook AH531 Laptop http://www.ebuyer.com/285962-fujitsu-lifebook-a530-laptop-vfy- a5300mrsa1gb (though mine is an Ex-display model, so ignore the price...) I'm pleased to report that it's a rather nice machine. Well packaged with a very nice monitor and good keyboard. The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. As you might expect, it comes with more software than you really need, so I have spent most of the evening trimming the surplus windows software and getting Linux (Debian Squeeze) installed (which it now is). Two points of note on this; Firstly I was pleasantly surprised to see a disk-partitioning wizard as part of the windows setup, so reducing the windows system disk was easy. Secondly, I was less pleased to find out that the wired nic is by realtek and required a non-free bit of firmware which wasn't on the debian install cd. It is, however in the non-free repository, so you need to do a bit of package work to find it, and some old-school fiddling to install it. Once this was done, installation was reasonably smooth. I am yet to check out all the features under Linux, but I don't expect too many problems. I will post benchmark results tomorrow for anyone who's interested. Cheers, Tim B. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
Secondly, I was less pleased to find out that the wired nic is by realtek and required a non-free bit of firmware Which chipset is it? I've always had good results from Realtek wired stuff, and a very pleasant experience when I wanted to run a DVB chipset from them... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote: The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that cannot scroll. These days it tends to be two finger scrolling rather then the right side of the pad... though on linux this is configurable. On windows you may need some drivers to get it to work nicely though I thought windows has the side scrolling by default (though I haven't really used windows on a laptop in a while). -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 00:43:00 Michael Daffin wrote: On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote: The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that cannot scroll. These days it tends to be two finger scrolling rather then the right side of the pad... though on linux this is configurable. On windows you may need some drivers to get it to work nicely though I thought windows has the side scrolling by default (though I haven't really used windows on a laptop in a while). Ah, sorry, I was wrong, it does have scroll, it's just quite a way in from the edge of the pad. The realtek chipset is RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller, and it is fine now that the full install is done. Anyway, benchmark results: You may remember from a previous post that the 2.4GHz P4 came in at an index of 447.3 The new laptop comes in at: 1 Concurrent1294.7 4 Concurrent3186.0 So all-in-all, quite a bit quicker! I have full results if anyone is interested. Cheers, Tim B -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
