Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?
One thing that you may wish to check is hardware virtualisation support - i.e. which CPU is in it and checking it in wikipedia. Be warned that many brand new (even quad core) processors don't have such support - only specific models do. Adrian -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?
(.) I know some people get second hand units, what can be bought for under £300? Where is reputable? I think the 12 screen format is probably best, so which models are okay to buy second hand and are happy running Debian or other Linux distros? Thanks in advance. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Adam, As we discussed, I've bought a couple of excellent IBM ThinkPads from Sterling XS and I've paid considerably less than £300. They come with XP installed, but that can be scraped off... Chris. When a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils, you know for sure that there's something fishy going on. -- anon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?
On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:16:45 +0100 Chris. Aubrey-Smith cas...@gmail.com wrote: As we discussed, I've bought a couple of excellent IBM ThinkPads from Sterling XS and I've paid considerably less than £300. I'll second that, 2nd hand TPs can be a good buy, not so sure about the more recent ones but older TPs are robust and well made and some are even reasonably light weight. Sterling XS proved OK judging by my experience getting a couple from them. -- John Lewis using Debian Sid with windowmaker for a nicer desktop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] kill -9 pid now working
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:43 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have a system where kill -9 pid as root, is not working. As a result, even the reboot command also does nothing. Does anyone know why this might happen? If a program gets caught in uninterruptible sleep, it cannot be killed. I believe that this usually happens when the process is in kernel mode doing waiting on some I/O and killing it at that point would result in an inconsistency. Generally D-sleep shouldn't last long... renice seems to work, in that reading the new priority shows that the priority has changed. I can remotely connect to the system so it is functioning quite well up to a point. sync also just hangs. This should not happen. Perhaps some part of the kernel is deadlocked?! If you find out what's gone wrong, you should probably report a kernel bug. Is any part of the filesystem remote? James -- The Holy ettlz theholyet...@googlemail.com PGP key ID: 03F94B5D --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Cheap Notebooks?
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, My old Dell Inspiron is coming to the end of it's life, I mostly use a desktop system so I don't need an all dancing notebook. I want a small/cheap computer, for presentations at meetings and the occasional use away from home. I can get a Dell Inspiron Mini 12 for £380 which comes shipped with Ubuntu. I can get a Novatech no name E15 Pro for £332 with no OS. The Dell is about the right size, the Novatech is probably larger than I want. I can also go for one of the many netbooks too (~ £250), though mostly they come with the Windows Tax. I know some people get second hand units, what can be bought for under £300? Where is reputable? I am a regular FOSS exhibitor at bracknell computer fair and one trader there I know deals in second hand laptops. Most come with the original windows licence, although he has put ubuntu on a few which have no licence. The regulations about dealing in second hand units will change (tighten) later this year, and about 4 licences are required for reputable dealers. If I wanted a laptop I would talk to him, and get his comments I would also also seriously consider his stock. Stock throughput is 100's per month. If you contact him, mention me? (Bracknell computer fair Infopoint Free software display, alan) his name is Sean www.wirelessconcepts.co.uk enquir...@wirelessconcepts.co.uk 07795 428794 -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
