Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 06:16:22 Adrian Howard wrote: For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here. Gulp ;-) I'll feel really guilty if anything goes wrong :-) -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/12/11 06:16, Adrian Howard wrote: For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here. Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to stop you from firing it up with live CD of

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 08:12:31 Sean Gibbins wrote: Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to stop you from firing it up with live CD of some description to see what's what in terms of compatibility. As long as you are careful with It would have to be a live USB

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread C A Wills
I'll back everything Terry said about Novatech. I visited the showroom and tried a live disk on a desktop machine with no problem (except the guy didn't known about 'live CD's!); bought the machine with extra HD only to find no drive connector on main board. No problem as we went back

Re: [Dorset] Byobu

2011-12-03 Thread CPK Smithies
One word of caution about byobu: I once used it on a cloud-based server I maintain and left it running for 24 hours. It used a surprising amount of CPU and bandwidth. Regards to all, CPKS -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

[Dorset] Samba Conf Help Needed

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, Some time ago, something changed in my network/Kubuntu and it became really difficult to browse the network. After a bit of investigation, I noticed that I could see the Workgroup if a Windows computer was on the network, but not when my machine was the only one connected or the other was