On 9/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Rice</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@ricey.co.uk">dave@ricey.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
iain Baker wrote:<br><br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Sin 1) Laptops<br>
> i have sent a message before but like i said - i dont think mail man<br>> likes me so... does anyone know a good manufacturer of laptops? i am<br>> looking to get a decent spec, somewhat future proof laptop at a not
<br>> <dubious_spelling>extorshionate</dubious_spelling> prices, and rather<br>> unsurprisingly want it to be linux compatible...<br>><br><br>I've found advent to be quite good, but my best experience is with a
<br>fujitsu Amilo machine...v nice ;)</blockquote><div><br>
I have debian testing/unstable (I think its sid/etch) installed on my
Gericom Ego 1780XL+ that I bought from Aldi a year ago, just before it
went down in price by £200. I'm quite happy with it, with the one
exception that the AC97 sound chip will only let me play from one sound
source at a time. <br>
IMHO, you shouldn't have too much trouble with most laptops, provided
they're not so cutting edge that nobody has got round to writing
drivers for it. <br>
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I'd be more worried about being able to get a spare
battery for it (I speak from experience) as most batteries start to
become unreliable after a year or two. <br>
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(On a side note, if anyone could help me with that sound problem, it would be much appreciated. :) )<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Sin 2) LLUG Distro<br>> Does anybody remember a pipe dream about a Lug specific Live Distro
<br>> for use as promotional gizzits and for Real Life meetings (more on<br>> them later)??<br>
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><br>> i know it may not be quite as 'live' but i'd love to see that passion<br>> brought back into the lug, and the distro may be a nice place to<br>> start? give us something to focus on?<br>> what do you say?
<br>><br><br>I've been looking at ways of doing a distro, and it is definately<br>possible, but i/we need input from everyone to get the details of what<br>we want in it, what to base it on (debian,redhat etc) and how it should
<br>look....i'm willing to out my time and clock cycles into the idea of<br>LincsLinux!</blockquote><div><br>
I vote debian. :) I think basically what we need content wise is
software that demonstrates the free OSS alternatives to what you'd find
on your average M$ desktop, the most obvious choices would be firefox
and openoffice. I'd also recommend MPlayer, VLC, Xine, K3b... maybe we
should make some sort of centralised list.<br>
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It also needs a pretty GUI. Text consoles tend to scare away potential linux converts. Sad but true. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> sin 3) Real Life Meetings<br>> we need one!<br>> anyone disagree?<br>> i would love to organise a meeting full of demo's and tutorials,
<br>> because that would be fun and interesting... but i think we may have a<br>> darker need for them. unless we can get IRC meetings at a time<br>> everyone can be online (which seems unlikely from before) i think we
<br>> should meet up to discuss the future, to discuss what we want to do,<br>> create and achieve... and maybe to have a friendly drink and chat...<br>><br>> just my oppinion and if people disagree then please feel free to let
<br>> me know... but if thats what others want i will see what i can do to<br>> get one near Lincoln City Centre (a central point, the best i can<br>> think of for a fair location)<br>><br><br>agreed, Lincoln is prob the best place, we do live in lincolnshire
<br>afterall ;) lol</blockquote><div><br>
Indeed, provided there are no steep hills to climb. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> sin 4) Future<br>> either mailman REALLY dislikes me or the conversation thread has faded
<br>> away... what do people think we should do about the splitting in<br>> half/keeping unified issue?
<br>> does anyone have a 'LUG Dream' of what they see us achieving for<br>> ourselves, for lincolnshire, and/or for linux?<br>><br>> where are we going?<br>><br><br>I don't like the idea of a split, IMHO. we need to get together and talk
<br>about this really</blockquote><div><br>
I don't know about this issue. The thing is, its a big county, and none
of us really want to travel long distances for meetings, and I reckon
this may be a contributing factor as to why our online activities have
lapsed as well. <br>
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Of course, dividing into two groups needn't mean the they become
separate entities. If we could find two venues with broadband
connections, we could videoconference them together. :D<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> we had a passion when we built the site (sorry to revert to it but it<br>> was our hayday) because we had a goal, we had something to aim at, and
<br>> we could see a way to achieve it... do we need to create more goals,
<br>> targets, and missions to keep a passion? are there differant areas we<br>> can have these objectives to allow everyone a fair crack at the whip?<br>><br><br>er...yes</blockquote><div><br>
You're quite right, we need some goals. Projects like the LincsLinux
Live distro would be a good idea, but these are all things that need
collaboration. We need to meet IRL, and regularly if we want to get
things done. Theres only so much that can be achieved over IRC.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> this is everyones LUG, lets get some love back into it! lets get a Lug
<br>> we are proud of, lets get me a new laptop<br>> :-)</blockquote><div><br>
Yes! Laptops all round!<br>
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</div></div>-- <br>Thanks,<br>-Matt Dancer <barodato at gmail dot com>