Re: laptops

2011-04-20 Thread Randy
I'd have to agree with Irvin about the HP laptops. I've had enormous trouble with the Linux sound drivers and getting it to recognize the microphone for my consumer-grade "HP Pavilion Entertainment PC". The microphone is still a problem. Also it tends to run hot, early battery failure (probably

Re: Boston Linux Meeting reminder tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Nagios, Gnome 3, Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop

2011-04-20 Thread Randy
Jerry, I saw your announcement about the discount at the meeting on the Genesi Efika MX Smarttop. Anyone have one of these already? I thought for a minute you were talking about a Smartbook!! Still 25% off is darn good. Specs look good except for 512MB memory would constrain it to server use ra

Speaking of on-line/cloud storage... Wuala

2011-04-20 Thread Richard Pieri
Does anyone here have experience with Wuala? It has an interesting pricing option: start with 1GB "free". If you want more then you can use your spare local storage as part of the Wuala cloud. Space allocated times online time (minimum 4 hours per day) equals how much extra storage is availab