now the academic year is over i hope to find the time to get to more plug meetings.<br><br>on the laptop front is it stating the obvious to say you should get a dell with Ubuntu pre-installed.<br><a href="http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs">
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs</a><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Guy Heatley</b> <<a href="mailto:guy.heatley@gmail.com">
guy.heatley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Neil,<br>Sounds good to me :-)<br><br>I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that I have just installed
<br>OpenWRT onto. I could bring that along as well, if you like.<br><br>As far as laptops are concerned I have only had experience of 2:-<br>1) An IBM Thinkpad 390E. This is very well supported for Linux and<br>even the power management business works on this machine
e.g. changing<br>behavior when running off the battery, auto powering down safely when<br>battery is low etc.<br>I think the original IBM laptops are very well supported with GNU<br>software and they are built to be bulletproof. Only problem is its a
<br>little long in the tooth.<br>I have given this to my girlfriend. It still works fine, (and runs<br>GNU/Linux) so that only goes to prove how bulletproof it is. Normally<br>she can wreck most pieces of technology in a short space of time ;-)
<br><br>2) A dell Latitude D6010. This is my work laptop. It seems to have<br>been pretty reliable considering I hawk it back and forth from work<br>everyday. Linux support is not as good as on the IBM but it works -<br>mostly. I haven't got the CD writer to work yet (although I haven't
<br>tried for a bit). The built in wireless works and bluetooth also. For<br>some reason I cannot use GRUB to dual boot with WindowsXP<br>(unfortunately needed for work, I hasten to add. Surely no-one would<br>boot into Windows unless they absolutely had to ;-). Running windows
<br>always damages GRUB but not lilo on this machine. Anyhow, I have to<br>use lilo and remember to re-run lilo after kernel upgrades etc.<br><br>I hope these summaries help! See you next week.<br>--<br>Guy<br><br>Stand up for freedom: Switch to GNU/Linux.
<br>'Microsoft warned today that the era of ''open computing,''<br>the free exchange of digital information that has defined the<br>personal computer industry, is ending.'<br>New York Times, July 25, 2002
<br><br>On 29/05/07, Neil Forshaw <<a href="mailto:princeneil2000@yahoo.com">princeneil2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Any ideas of the subject? If no ones got any good<br>> ideas I was thinking of doing a "why VIM aint grim"
<br>> lecture however i suspect ill mainly be preaching to<br>> the converted or other peeps are in the Emacs camp.<br>> Then again im sure alot of people can contribute to<br>> the lecture cause there's so much with Vim.
<br>><br>> Also I'm thikning of getting a laptop so I need some<br>> recommendations. Tinternet seems to usually have<br>> conflicting opinions so ill just go with you lot.<br>> Basically Im not after the latest greatest super fast
<br>> one<br>><br>> - 512mb to 1024mb single core processor is more than<br>> enough<br>><br>> - I don't wanna do too much faffin just to get it to<br>> work.<br>><br>> - Heaviest thing i'll prob do on it is record music
<br>> onto it ( probably using ardour ).<br>><br>> - Wireless would be nice but not essential.<br>><br>> - Not too concerned about price (unless it's silly<br>> pricy)<br>><br>> - Quiet ( though I suspect most laptops are anyway )
<br>><br>> - Not too boshed about battery life<br>><br>> I would probably be using Ubuntu Studio on it. Any<br>> recommendations? Any brands or models I should avoid<br>> like the plague? Any safe bets?
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