[Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-08 Thread LUG
Hello all, We are going to be driving to Scotland to visit the in-laws in summer and accompanying us will be our (by then) year old son. He has recently discovered the joy of The Tweenies and other CBeebies based entertainment (or rather, we have discovered that said programs will keep him quiet lo

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-08 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Friday 08 Feb 2013 21:50:55 Imran Chaudhry wrote: > I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian > Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. > > The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I > just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a d

Re: [Hampshire] Getting 3D Acceleration/Compiz working with Debian Squeeze VirtualBox guest

2013-02-08 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Thanks Popey. I am using the upstream VBox and upstream guest additions with this. Today I tried Ubuntu 12.10 with the same Windows host and 3D acceleration appears to work (although very slowly). My quick test was to click the desktop switcher a few times which is "3D animated". So conclusion ri

[Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-08 Thread Imran Chaudhry
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I have to be careful about particular

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi Questions

2013-02-08 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hello again, Many thanks for the various suggestions and comments. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. -- anon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug