Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Tony H.G Candito
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Luke Yelavich them...@themuso.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:41:39PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: Coming from a point of view of audio stack maintainer in a distro, I'd say stay away from Toshiba. There have been many issues surrounding hda audio and

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
Tony \H.G\ Candito blindra...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Luke Yelavich them...@themuso.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:41:39PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: Coming from a point of view of audio stack maintainer in a distro, I'd say stay away from Toshiba. There have

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:05:10PM EST, Daniel Pittman wrote: ThinkPad, mostly. Their very bottom end stuff is really IdeaPad inside, which is not the same quality as the ThinkPad hardware. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for details on what does or doesn't suck. Apple, after six months.

Re: [SLUG] CUPS and detection of printer presence

2010-10-14 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: So, my question is, can a printer that only requires a PPD file give me feedback like presence, paper status etc or do I need to write a CUPS backend driver to get those features. Asking in the cups.development forum:

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Tony H.G Candito wrote: OK, so now that we've learn't what isn't safe. What is? Until my current laptop, but usual approach was to buy whatever Dell laptop and Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee (usually Rob Collins) was using. My experience with Dell was good, but i was usually buying

[SLUG] Re: On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm afraid I gave up on filling public rubbish dumps. If you can excuse me for putting it that way. If I do need a laptop I go to Ebay and get hold of something like an IBM T40 or X40. As long as it has 2Gb of RAM. Cost about $160. Ebay also do a CD based manual for about $10. How to

Re: [SLUG] Re: On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
and get hold of something like an IBM T40 or X40.  As long as it has 2Gb of RAM.  Cost about $160.  Ebay also do a CD based manual for ... Other than that Advent or Dell.  I've burnt out several Advent laptops.   All of them were good. If new, anyone interested in a group purchase? We are

[SLUG] lca2011 - Registrations are now Open

2010-10-14 Thread clinton . roy
Brisbane, Australia - The lca2011 organising team are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for linux.conf.au 2011. With the official opening of the registrations for lca2011, those wishing to attend the world's best Linux conference can benefit from generously discounted Early

[SLUG] Re: On buying a laptop

2010-10-14 Thread elliott-brennan
I have HP DV14A1p - works fine with Ubuntu since first install of 8.04. We also have two Lenovo X200s. With the top of the range WiFi cards it was a case of insert disk (Kubuntu 9.10), install...everything works (Fn keys etc). 'T'was easy :)) Like everyone else, I'm only speaking from personal

Re: [SLUG] Telstra Doing Good

2010-10-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 October 2010 16:41, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:03:33AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: For every 100 text messages, we?ll give an XO laptop to a child who needs it, up to 500 laptops. Text the word ?LAPTOP? to 044 SUPPORT (0447 877 678)*

[SLUG] MobileFOSS Call For Papers - 1 Week until closing time

2010-10-14 Thread James Purser
Now that registrations for lca2011 are open, I'd like to remind everyone that the Call For Papers for the MobileFOSS miniconf is open until the 22nd October (1 week away). What are we looking for? We're looking for presentations on topics relating to development on Free and Open Source Software

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:42 +1100, Tony H.G Candito wrote: OK, so now that we've learn't what isn't safe. What is? I've had ASUS laptops the last few goes. They've been surprisingly tolerable. The one I've got now is a UL20A. I'm rather pleased with it. Low voltage chip and Intel graphics. Yeay.