quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint
that will help your purchasing decision: Buy Intel, from top to bottom. You
will have
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint
that will help your
Thanks Mark
I've tried it on a number of different computers (all running Ubuntu)
including one that work when it had Fedora Core 5 installed. Still no
luck.
Rich
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:01 +1100, Mark Pearson wrote:
Try using a different usb cable or a different usb slot. If the pocket
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
Rich
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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Russell
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:15 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Thinkpads have been long revered for their GNU/Linux support, but I don't
know
how they are these days. Dells _can_ be good due to the sheer number of
I am on to my second Thinkpad (a T60, previously a T40) and everything
works on
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:54 +1100, Zhasper wrote:
I think there's a bit more utility than that in at least making /home
it's own partition:
Totally agree for your reasons provided. Problem is that it's not a
newbie task to create a separate home partition nor to choose what size
the rest
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
On 3/1/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would
run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can
Hi Del
why not HP_LaserJet_3390, I used it to replace my hp3330
Alex
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:02:06PM +1100, Del wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at replacing our venerable HP 3330 MFP
(printer/scanner/fax/copier)
a mid-range model, more up to date, with a duplexing kit and colour.
Although
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:28:22 +1100
Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
Rich
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At 11:39 AM 1/03/2007, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Howard Lowndes wrote:
My spam level had been bubbling along at a steady 25,000 rejects per day,
with the rare spike to 150,000, for about 2-3 weeks, but over the past 5
days it has slowly retreated to about 20,000. Now, in the past 15 hours,
it
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T series Thinkpads, but
gave up completely on an R series. It's sitting on the shelf gathering
dust right now :( Does anyone
inside interest
Gee, with all the other brands being plugged, it would be remiss of me
not to mention that my fairly new HP Compaq nc6320 is a beautiful thing.
As Jeff promoted, Intel graphics chipsets are a good thing. Out of the
box it does very nice 3D for Beryl and games using the Intel 945GM
G'day,
I'll second the Dell being fine on Ubuntu (for the single user). When
you say entry level it means different things to most users. There's
the BenQ range of Intel CPU-driven units, but some of the Dell laptops
(such at the lowest level XPS M1210) are $1800 or so and offer a tiny,
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:16:05AM EST, david wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T series Thinkpads, but
gave up completely on an R series. It's
Hi,
Maybe someone can help me with a problem that came about with a new
xubuntu install lastnight...
Basically it appears if I use screen from a terminal session in xorg,
soon as I launch screen session I can no longer use delete or
backspace keys.
If I ssh to the box from somewhere else using
On 02/03/07, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Maybe someone can help me with a problem that came about with a new
xubuntu install lastnight...
Basically it appears if I use screen from a terminal session in xorg,
soon as I launch screen session I can no longer use delete or
backspace
On 3/2/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like Screen is confused about your terminal.
What's the value of $TERM in the terminal before you launch screen?
That's something I considered. Before launch screen executable
$TERM=xterm and then when I execute screen, $TERM=screen
And
On Friday 02 March 2007 07:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some distributions have better laptop support than others. Ubuntu is a
particularly friendly distro for laptops, and I don't think Fedora is bad
either.
I have never had problems with Toshibas (using one now). I thin Ubuntu
is
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Alexander Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nVidia drivers are actually alright under Ubuntu (I can suspend to RAM
out of the box) and if you use nv (which is really a non-issue in many
cases) you can do both. There are ways to force it to unload the module
and then suspend
On Friday 02 March 2007 07:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Thanks for all who responded so promptly on and off list for help with
getting a laptop.
1) get Intel chipset, avoid the rest
2) Dell, IBM and Toshiba work, (highest number of replies first)
training?
still hunting..
The
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
ATI, at least with binary drivers, is far worse. I can't speak for the Free
drivers.
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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:16:05AM EST, david wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T
On 3/2/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
ATI, at least with binary drivers, is
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:34 +1100, Craig Dibble wrote:
It may well be that spelling it out like this makes it look obvious
what
the problem is, but since the results I was getting seemed to be
contrary to popular wisdom, and to any documentation I have read, I
had
a hard time trying to
Robert Collins wrote:
Hand-waving aside, I
think this explanation fits the bill.
I dont, because you have ignored the parallelism in each spindle.
With 10 disks, doing 10 writes, one per disk, should take precisely as
long as 5 disks, doing 5 writes, one per disk, as long as you have
Craig Dibble wrote:
Hand-waving aside, I
think this explanation fits the bill.
Also, the bill in question was me trying to convince the application
developers there was nothing wrong with the hardware ;-)
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Is there a problem with firewire external hard drives?
A new external firewire/USB combo HD with ext3 partition on Ubuntu 6.10
The short version:
copying a large file (2G) via firewire made the drive dummy
spit. Copying the same size file via USB works.
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