[Preston] first tue of month meeting.

[Guy Heatley]

Hi Neil,
Sounds good to me :-)

I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that I have just installed
OpenWRT onto. I could bring that along as well, if you like.

As far as laptops are concerned I have only had experience of 2:-
1) An IBM Thinkpad 390E. This is very well supported for Linux and
even the power management business works on this machine e.g. changing
behavior when running off the battery, auto powering down safely when
battery is low etc.
I think the original IBM laptops are very well supported with GNU
software and they are built to be bulletproof. Only problem is its a
little long in the tooth.
I have given this to my girlfriend. It still works fine, (and runs
GNU/Linux) so that only goes to prove how bulletproof it is. Normally
she can wreck most pieces of technology in a short space of time ;-)

2) A dell Latitude D6010. This is my work laptop. It seems to have
been pretty reliable considering I hawk it back and forth from work
everyday. Linux support is not as good as on the IBM but it works -
mostly. I haven't got the CD writer to work yet (although I haven't
tried for a bit). The built in wireless works and bluetooth also. For
some reason I cannot use GRUB to dual boot with WindowsXP
(unfortunately needed for work, I hasten to add. Surely no-one would
boot into Windows unless they absolutely had to ;-). Running windows
always damages GRUB but not lilo on this machine. Anyhow, I have to
use lilo and remember to re-run lilo after kernel upgrades etc.

I hope these summaries help! See you next week.
-- 
Guy

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On 29/05/07, Neil Forshaw <princeneil2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Any ideas of the subject? If no ones got any good
> ideas I was thinking of doing a "why VIM aint grim"
> lecture however i suspect ill mainly be preaching to
> the converted or other peeps are in the Emacs camp.
> Then again im sure alot of people can contribute to
> the lecture cause there's so much with Vim.
>
> Also I'm thikning of getting a laptop so I need some
> recommendations. Tinternet seems to usually have
> conflicting opinions so ill just go with you lot.
> Basically Im not after the latest greatest super fast
> one
>
> - 512mb to 1024mb single core processor is more than
> enough
>
> - I don't wanna do too much faffin just to get it to
> work.
>
> - Heaviest thing i'll prob do on it is record music
> onto it ( probably using ardour ).
>
> - Wireless would be nice but not essential.
>
> - Not too concerned about price (unless it's silly
> pricy)
>
> - Quiet ( though I suspect most laptops are anyway )
>
> - Not too boshed about battery life
>
>  I would probably be using Ubuntu Studio on it. Any
> recommendations? Any brands or models I should avoid
> like the plague? Any safe bets?
>
>
>
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