On 1 Dec 2011, at 12:55, Mark Elkins wrote:
Adrian
Things have moved on and I would suggest that Ubuntu 10.04 (The LTS Version)
will work out of the box in most cases. For example id of wireless cards etc
that previous versions of Ubuntu sometimes struggled with.
Good to know - thanks.
On 1 Dec 2011, at 17:13, Terry Coles wrote:
[snip]
Best of all, they sell nearly all of their computers OS free, so you won't
have to pay for a crippled version of W7 and then throw it away, like most of
the competition these days.
Thanks for all of that. Especially the OS free options -
Hi
I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have
known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen:
http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/
Really useful console window manager, particularly useful for having
multiple terminals open on a remote machine, especially as if you
Hi Tim/Ralph all,
On 2 December 2011 14:11, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have
known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen:
I too felt a bit silly about not having come across it before I did - and
at
On 02/12/11 13:43, Tim Allen wrote:
Hi
I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have
known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen:
http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/
Although I haven't really used it, you could also look at tmux which is
a more modern utility that
Hi John,
You can also share a screen session from two places (screen -x).
This can be handy for two people to share the same terminal, e.g. one
watches what the other's doing.
Cheers, Ralph.
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On 02/12/11 16:09, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi John,
You can also share a screen session from two places (screen -x).
This can be handy for two people to share the same terminal, e.g. one
watches what the other's doing.
Yeah, I've used it for that, but a question came up at work the other
day
Hi John,
Yeah, I've used it for that, but a question came up at work the other
day - can this be done between different user accounts?
Yes, screen(1) has a multiuser mode and access control lists. See the
multiuser and addacl commands. But it needs screen to be setuid
root in order to access
I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really enjoy
it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs)
I noted that eBuyer had some 10 netbooks for about £190 a week ago.
I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11.10 working fine.
To me it seems such better value all
On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:34, Walter Reed wrote:
I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really
enjoy it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs)
I noted that eBuyer had some 10 netbooks for about £190 a week ago.
I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11.10
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