Re: [Hampshire] Anyone want a duplex unit for an HP multifunction?printer ?

2012-01-16 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Sun, Jan 15 at 05:22, David Fish wrote: Hi Do you still have the duplex unit if you have i would like it. I have a duplexor for a HP4550 laserjet if that is of any use to anyone. Actually have the broken guts of the printer as well. The result of putting two broken ones together to make

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?

2012-01-16 Thread Stephen Davies
I've always found the staff at Novatech very techincally aware. I was in the Reading Store recently sorting out a case and cooler for my Vmware ESXi server. I got lots of help making sure that the bits I bought were going to fit together (Heatsink not too tall). I now have a 6 core AMD based

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech - Ubuntu good news?

2012-01-16 Thread hantslug
On Monday 16 January 2012 16:34:05 Stephen Davies wrote: I've always found the staff at Novatech very techincally aware. And very helpful. In addition, I have several times had helpful advice about Linux; and Linux using Novatech staff sometimes showed up on the Linux Novatech forum.

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-16 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Well, I have bought a new laptop now. One of these in fact... Fujitsu Lifebook AH531 Laptop http://www.ebuyer.com/285962-fujitsu-lifebook-a530-laptop-vfy- a5300mrsa1gb (though mine is an Ex-display model, so ignore the price...) I'm pleased to report that it's a rather nice machine. Well

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-16 Thread Vic
Secondly, I was less pleased to find out that the wired nic is by realtek and required a non-free bit of firmware Which chipset is it? I've always had good results from Realtek wired stuff, and a very pleasant experience when I wanted to run a DVB chipset from them... Vic. -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Daffin
On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote: The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that cannot scroll. These days it tends to be two finger scrolling rather then the right side

Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

2012-01-16 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 00:43:00 Michael Daffin wrote: On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.orgwrote: The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice. Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that cannot scroll. These days