[Preston] first tue of month meeting.

[ianio]

now the academic year is over i hope to find the time to get to more plug
meetings.

on the laptop front is it stating the obvious to say you should get a dell
with Ubuntu pre-installed.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs



On 5/30/07, Guy Heatley <guy.heatley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Stand up for freedom: Switch to GNU/Linux.
> 'Microsoft warned today that the era of ''open computing,''
> the free exchange of digital information that has defined the
> personal computer industry, is ending.'
> New York Times, July 25, 2002
>
> 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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