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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I'm in the midst of wedding preperations at the moment, getting married in three weeks. Afterwards I'd be happy to sort out a presentation re:Ubuntu and DSL. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Re: trying to out inverse snob me, nice try. My DSL machine doesn't even HAVE a hard drive :-P</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I've also been trying to underclock the processor to cool it down. However, since I've been looking at the technical specs of my PIII 600E which has a maximum TDP of around 20W, I'm not worried about overheating it too much.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: bob <bgarrood@tiscali.co.uk><BR>To: scarborough@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>Sent: Monday, 10 September, 2007 10:56:25 AM<BR>Subject: [SLUG] Re: Re:distro info<BR><BR>
<DIV>On Saturday 08 September 2007 12:15, David wrote:<BR><BR>> If it's not too late can I suggest you include a business-card sized distro<BR>> as well. I am currently using DSL on my oldest computer (400MHz 128Mb I<BR>> think.). It runs like a charm entirely in ram or from CD and is very easy<BR>> to use. I also like puppylinux for this purpose. On a side note, I wanted a<BR>> silent PC so I unplugged the fans and HD and it's now virtually silent and<BR>> the CPU still runs cool with just the heatsink!<BR><BR>Yes, sounds good to me. If you can write it up and are willing and able to <BR>answer questions, it can go with the rest of the distro info material. We <BR>should try for a standard format, with the same headings for the paragraphs, <BR>and roughly the same length. If you want to argue about the headings we <BR>have time, as this is being set up to appear by the end of next month. I
<BR>like DSL, but at our meeting we said we should aim to concentrate on <BR>installed Linux, rather than live CDs.<BR><BR>If we can find someone to write up Ubuntu in the same way, we have enough for <BR>a website presentation.<BR><BR>It would be good if you could work this up into a half hour talk for <BR>beginners. At the moment the topic list for the beginner's half hours looks <BR>like this:<BR><BR> KOffice<BR> er,.. Computer hardware and Linux<BR><BR>We need to have at least 3-4 topics in place before we start the meetings, and <BR>they need to be proper presentations, using say, Kpresenter, so they can be <BR>accessed by anyone who does not get to meetings, - criticism improves style <BR>and content as they say. <BR><BR>I can out inverse snob you on machines. This is being written on a 6 y o <BR>Panasonic
Toughbook. It has 128Mb and runs up to date Slackware 11.0 at 300 <BR>Mhz. I did have to spend £25 on a new hard drive last year.<BR><BR>Bob</DIV></DIV>
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