[SLUG] Lenovo wins $150m NSW schools deal or April Fools joke?
Dear list, "Chinese computer company Lenovo has won a contract to provide 200,000 laptops for NSW secondary school students. The NSW government has also announced agreements reached with software giants Microsoft and Adobe to provide an extensive suite of software for the laptops. The Lenovo contract, worth $150 million, includes 25,000 laptops for teachers Premier Nathan Rees said his government would contribute $25.5 million for the software, which he said would cost each student more than $5,500 if they were to purchase it in a store All the laptops will come with Microsoft Office Professional, giving students access to programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Adobe software includes Photoshop Elements, Premier Elements, Dream Weaver and Flash." http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/lenovo-wins-150m-nsw-schools-deal/2009/04/01/1238261623058.html Why do they think the software is 'worth' anything?? How to save $25 Million dollars use OpenOffice, GIMP, Paint.net, Blender ???, Picsa, Canvas??, Bluefish etc. begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:Nada Marketing adr:;;PO Box 12 ;Gordon;NSW;2072;Australia email;internet:n...@nada.com.au tel;work:+(61) 2 8001 6179 tel;fax:+(61) 2 9327 4908 tel;home:+(61) 2 9436 0121 tel;cell:0414 618 425 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.nada.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sound Problem
Posting reply back to list (for others to chime in on) Malcolm, You need to find the Terminal application (possibly in the Accessories menu). The simply run "lspci | grep -i audio" and post the results back to the list. (Another alternative, again to be run in a terminal, is "lshw -class multimedia" ) I would be surprised if neither of these give a result. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Malcolm Johnston wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 00:04, you wrote: >> Not being a Slackware user, I don't know the specifics of your issue. >> >> In order to give potential advisers a clue, we would at a minimum need >> to know the model of motherboard, and hence hopefully the onboard >> sound chipset you are using. Also if you post the result of "lspci", >> filtering out the device line that would seem to pertain to the >> soundcard it might help. (BTW, when you said you replaced a Intel >> Celeron with an AMD Athlon CPU, you *must* have also had the >> motherboard replaced at the same time). >> >> For most Linux distros and sound cards these days it should "just >> work" so I imagine you must have something special. >> >> Regards, Martin >> >> martinvisse...@gmail.com >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Malcolm Johnston > wrote: >> > PS: I should also add that the distribution is Slackware 11, with a >> > 2.4.33.3 kernel, and that the bootdisk is "sata.i", which is one of the >> > vanilla bootdisks for the sort of hardware setup I have described. >> > >> > Malcolm Johnston >> > >> > -- >> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > Hi Martin, > > Thanks for the reply. It was the Pentium 4 (and motherboard) that replaced > the AMD stuff. Is there a way I can probe for the chipset? It's a bit hard > to get info out of the guy who did the work as his English isn't very good. > As you say, it should just work anyway. There is an ALSA message on boot to > the effect that there is no declared state for the sound card, but my > understanding is that ALSA is not the basic driver set. Could you possibly > amplify on the "Ispci" command, although I don't think it's on my distro. > > Cheers, > Malcolm Johnston > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sound Problem
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > Recently I had a Pentium 4 Celeron installed in my PC. Although it > replaced an AMD Athlon, the machine rebooted without problem and functions > fine, except for the sound. The Pentium came, I understand, with its own > soundcard, and I presume this is the problem. Any tips on how to set it > up? I should add that the Windows XP on the hard disk does produce sound, > so we are not talking about a basic problem with the hardware. Clark I (when an elderly and distinguished scientist says something is not possible then he is usually wrong) (and I have been so wrong in past proclamations eg All Mobos have at least one IDE port) but ... Your CPU has just about *nothing* to do with sound/no sound. As Martin said to change CPU you need to have changed motherboard and the new motherboard has no sound, or the sound is somehow tricky or even your disk is setup to use TheOldSoundcard and your new motherboard uses a NewSoundCard. Try booting with Knoppix or a liveCD to see if that works sound. (If you have a soundcard that card will surely work) Anybody want to walk him thru the modules bit? James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sound Problem
Not being a Slackware user, I don't know the specifics of your issue. In order to give potential advisers a clue, we would at a minimum need to know the model of motherboard, and hence hopefully the onboard sound chipset you are using. Also if you post the result of "lspci", filtering out the device line that would seem to pertain to the soundcard it might help. (BTW, when you said you replaced a Intel Celeron with an AMD Athlon CPU, you *must* have also had the motherboard replaced at the same time). For most Linux distros and sound cards these days it should "just work" so I imagine you must have something special. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Malcolm Johnston wrote: > PS: I should also add that the distribution is Slackware 11, with a 2.4.33.3 > kernel, and that the bootdisk is "sata.i", which is one of the vanilla > bootdisks for the sort of hardware setup I have described. > > Malcolm Johnston > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sound Problem
PS: I should also add that the distribution is Slackware 11, with a 2.4.33.3 kernel, and that the bootdisk is "sata.i", which is one of the vanilla bootdisks for the sort of hardware setup I have described. Malcolm Johnston -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sound Problem
Recently I had a Pentium 4 Celeron installed in my PC. Although it replaced an AMD Athlon, the machine rebooted without problem and functions fine, except for the sound. The Pentium came, I understand, with its own soundcard, and I presume this is the problem. Any tips on how to set it up? I should add that the Windows XP on the hard disk does produce sound, so we are not talking about a basic problem with the hardware. Yours faithfully, Malcolm Johnston -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
