[SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I don't know if this is true but here it is http://tiny.cc/PGil5 I think this means that although some of this is the XP desktop a lot of it is GNU/Linux based ? -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Morgan Storey
Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers moved to XP on the slightly higher models, and models with larger disks, and a lot of those sales where XP machines. So much so that MS continued shipping XP and supporting it. They have now even made a cutdown version of 7 for

[SLUG] Re: Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 12:36:03 Morgan Storey wrote: Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers moved to XP on the slightly higher models, and models with larger disks, and a lot of those sales where XP machines. So much so that MS continued shipping XP and supporting it.

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Wed, August 26, 2009 9:36 pm, Morgan Storey wrote: Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers moved to XP on the slightly higher models, and models with larger disks, and a lot of those sales where XP machines. So much so that MS continued shipping XP and supporting

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hopefully an alternative to the Atom will hit the market soon Need some competition to heat things up and bring prices down. Dean yes, I saw similar articles (and it seems to be confirmed when spec-browsing) according to an OEM offer out of PRC someone showed me, the cost of OEM XPH was

Re: [SLUG] Let's agree to sue each other! Not.

2009-08-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2009/8/23 Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org: quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan Having someone to sue is already in the set of criteria used by decision makers. It's not. Show me an agreement which gives a client the opportunity to sue a vendor -- aside from breach of contract or negligence, neither

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy almost working - but only ever hitting default site

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Martin, All, thanks. I realized that vhost was missing and put it in. squid still fails. internally the ip addresses are as follows... 10.1.2.249 www.pamphlets.org.au 10.1.2.250 www.icafe.com.au 10.1.2.252 squid.icafe.com.au If I have the config as below, I only ever get www.icafe.com.au

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Dean Hamstead wrote: Hopefully an alternative to the Atom will hit the market soon Need some competition to heat things up and bring prices down. The cost and pricing model has changed completely. 12 years ago, you had to pay a premium for a small laptop. My NEC Versa 4200c (no camera, but

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy almost working - but only ever hitting default site

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Martin, just a straight copy and paste of your suggestion into a new default squid.conf file under the following line... #INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS acl our_sites dstdomain www.icafe.com.au www.pamphlets.org.au *.pamphlets.org.au *.icafe.com.au acl

Re: [SLUG] Re: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-26 Thread Ken Wilson
jam wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the user and the kernel. Applications in Unix, as has already been

Re: [SLUG] Mini-notebook Sales Jump 398%

2009-08-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Definitely, It wasnt long ago that the $999 desktop, then the $999 laptop was a massive breakthrough. I hope someone (amd maybe) breaks the Atom monopoly and brings some more cores, bits, fpu and pipelines to the netbook cpu market. Dean Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote:

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy almost working - but only ever hitting default site

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Martin, Mate you are a genius! All working now. I just moved the lines as you suggested. Nothing else and both sites working. I'm going to run up a third site and add it in to the mix. Then carefully doco how this is done. I definitely owe you at least a beer. Thanks again. Ben

Re: [SLUG] Re: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-26 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Ken Wilson wrote: jam wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the user and the kernel. Applications in Unix,

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy working successfully

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all Just posting this here so that it gets saved in the SLUG archives and may help someone in the same situation in future. The following configuration has been successfully tested and more sites should be easily added by adding to the following config. The following was added to a default