Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Liddell
Hi, I've used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads exclusively for about 7 years now - because I *hate* touch pads, I can use the track points, and the Thinkpads are now the only laptops I can find that use track points. Anyway, I've had a total of eight, of various vintages from a TP 530, up to the recently

Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Anton Piatek
On 23 June 2010 07:50, Chris Liddell c...@spamcop.net wrote: Hi, I've used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads exclusively for about 7 years now - because I *hate* touch pads, I can use the track points, and the Thinkpads are now the only laptops I can find that use track points. Anyway, I've had a total

Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:29:40PM +0100, Leo wrote: I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510. General googling indicates linux should work ok with it. However; I was wondering if anyone had any good or bad experience with Lenovo laptops and linux? I've had two Thinkpads so far.

Re: [Hampshire] X forwarding over ssh not working

2010-06-23 Thread Victor Churchill
On 19 June 2010 13:03, Tim Retout t...@retout.co.uk wrote: On 17 June 2010 16:15, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: Server has ForwardX11 yes in /etc/ssh/ssh_config . I presume also X11Forwarding yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ? The above is the client option. Hm. Must have had

Re: [Hampshire] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Leo
Thanks all. Unfortunately it's gone from ~100 units to out-of-stock in 24 hours :( So now I'm looking at an Acer Aspire 5732Z instead. Leo -- 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] Lenovo laptops

2010-06-23 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:32:53PM +0100, Leo wrote: Thanks all. Unfortunately it's gone from ~100 units to out-of-stock in 24 hours :( So now I'm looking at an Acer Aspire 5732Z instead. Be *very* careful with those. When I was looking for this machine, I discovered that the Acer one with