Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:37:06 -0800 Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com dijo: The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. Just curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what their experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it Sidux. Unless

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Connors
If I was in the market for a netbook I'd look at the Motorola Atrix 4G. You can get a laptop dock for it that basically turns it into a netbook. When it's not a netbook its an Android 2.2 phone. Of course, if you don't need a phone, then it becomes too expensive for a netbook. At $500 for

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Jason Barnett
I am using a Toshiba N305 and am quite happy with it. Commonly get between 7-9 hours of battery life, easy memory and hard drive upgrades. It has a 10 screen and a nice, almost full ( for a laptop) sized keyboard. It had a couple of glitches with the backlight not being adjustable and it

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Mike Connors wrote: The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. Just curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what their experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it Sidux. Not knowing what

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Mike Connors
Not knowing what Sidux is I went a-googling. Important News: sidux is dead, long live aptosid http://sidux.com/index.php?module=Newsfunc=displaysid=616 Yes, Aptosid. Boy that just rolls off the tongue and makes you want to tell all your geek buds about the cool distro you run, eh. I've been

[PLUG] EISA partition on Toshiba laptop

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Moore
I was wondering if anyone better versed in the complexities of laptop hardware -- which is probably almost everyone on this list -- could provide some useful advice about how to set-up my Toshiba L505 laptop for dual-booting. fdisk -l shows this now: Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread Tony Schlemmer
On Friday 04 February 2011 20:37:06 Mike Connors wrote: The 2 somewhat obvious choices are Asus Eeee pc and Acer Aspire One. Just curious what other Netbooks people are running Linux on and what their experience has been. I'll probably run my Linux of choice on it Sidux. Unless there's a

Re: [PLUG] Shopping for Netbook to run Linux. What's your fav Netbook for Linux and why?

2011-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:14:19 -0800 Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com dijo: If I was in the market for a netbook I'd look at the Motorola Atrix 4G. You can get a laptop dock for it that basically turns it into a netbook. When it's not a netbook its an Android 2.2 phone. Of course, if you don't

Re: [PLUG] EISA partition on Toshiba laptop

2011-02-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:10:21AM -0800, Michael Moore wrote: ... After some investigating, I figured out that I can get rid of /dev/sda3 and I decided what I want to do is reformat and reinstall ... A general rule of thumb for computers. Always have a second copy. Hard drives are cheap.

[PLUG] Problems with a Linux machine...

2011-02-05 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I have an old PII 300 system in a separate building the purpose of which is to act as a wireless router and camera platform. Why a PII-300? Don't care if it gets stolden. I use SCSI hard drives, a Cheetah 18 gig and two Compaq 4 gig drives connected to an Adaptec 2940U2W. Trouble is, the hard

Re: [PLUG] Problems with a Linux machine...

2011-02-05 Thread Larry Brigman
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I have an old PII 300 system in a separate building the purpose of which is to act as a wireless router and camera platform.  Why a PII-300? Don't care if it gets stolden.  I use SCSI hard drives, a Cheetah 18

Re: [PLUG] GB Ethernet and Cat5E Cable

2011-02-05 Thread Neal
.On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Kirk Goins kirkgo...@gmail.com wrote: Will there be any noticeable  performance hit by using Cat5e cables when the cable lengths are in the7ft to 14ft range when using Gigabit NICs and Switches? The 1000baseT spec only calls for Cat5, so 5e is more than fine.

[PLUG] Network UPS tools can't access USB device...

2011-02-05 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.6.0) USB communication driver 0.31 Can't claim USB device [051d:0002]: could not detach kernel driver from interface 0: Operation not permitted Driver failed to start (exit status=1) ___ PLUG mailing list