[Hampshire] Shuttle and other small box systems

2010-01-08 Thread Adam John Trickett
Hi, I may have convinced a family member of the merits of a small box home computer system. I'm no particular axe to grind regarding Shuttle boxes but the requirement is a small, quiet box for a home office setting. Its be running a full weight Linux distro and probably Win7 in dual boot

Re: [Hampshire] Shuttle and other small box systems

2010-01-08 Thread Alan Pope
Must ... Try... To resist... Extreme pedantry... 2010/1/8 Adam John Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net: It'll probably be driving a 4:3 ratio LCD at approx 1280x1024 and not used for games other than the solitaire type. I'm not expecting it to be used for video, other than a bit of YouTube.

Re: [Hampshire] Shuttle and other small box systems

2010-01-08 Thread Adam John Trickett
On Friday 08 Jan 2010 16:11:25 Alan Pope wrote: Must ... Try... To resist... Extreme pedantry... 2010/1/8 Adam John Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net: It'll probably be driving a 4:3 ratio LCD at approx 1280x1024 and not used for games other than the solitaire type. I'm not

Re: [Hampshire] Shuttle and other small box systems

2010-01-08 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Fri, Jan 08 at 04:05, Adam John Trickett wrote: ... What things should I be looking for? Obviously if it runs Windows then it will need more grunt, but my preference is for a case with a passively cooled CPU and graphics system and a quite hard disk. My experience with Shuttles

Re: [Hampshire] Shuttle and other small box systems

2010-01-08 Thread Sean Gibbins
Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 08 at 04:05, Adam John Trickett wrote: ... What things should I be looking for? Obviously if it runs Windows then it will need more grunt, but my preference is for a case with a passively cooled CPU and graphics system and a quite hard disk.

[Hampshire] Rawtherapee released under GPL3

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Davies
The latest Alpha release of Rawtherapee had been release under a GPL V3 license. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/RawTherapee-3-0-Alpha-1-released-under-GPL-license-896214.html The author hopes that other developers will step in and help develope a more user friendly GUI. It is nice to