[Hampshire] Free to a good home: "Linux Voice" magazines

2020-03-25 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
Under pressure from Her Who Must be Obeyed, I'm turning out a complete run of "Linux Voice" magazines: issues 1 (April 2014) to 32 (November 2016). This was a "crowd funded" title, aimed at competing with the long-established "Linux Format", but unfortunately it folded. Fairly obviously, I'm

[Hampshire] "Linux Format" magazines, fee to a good home

2020-03-25 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
Under pressure from Her Who Must be Obeyed, I'm turning out a long run of "Linux Format magazines: issues 151 (December 2011) to 250 (June 2019), complete with the cover DVDs. Fairly obviously, I'm not up for posting them - if you want them, come and collect! I live in Newbury. If you're

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2019-11-06 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
When we had grief with an HP OfficeJet 8100 printer throwing a wobbly with non OEM cartridges, we replaced it with a Canon TR8550 multi-function printer - we're using cartridges from Ink Factory and the printer is happy with them. That works fine with both my Linux Mint desktop (and laptop)

[Hampshire] Slightly OT: Intel SDK-85 board up for grabs

2019-07-01 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
I recently discovered, in a box hidden under the stairs, an Intel SDK-85 board, made up, with a load of extra chips in the expansion area (I think they were probably an attempt at RAM expansion...) There are also an Intel 8748 single chip microcontroller (EPROM version), 2 Hitachi HM6264 8k x

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-03 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
I've found that PC Specialist's laptops are pretty good - we bought one there a few months back for the local branch of Benenden Healthcare, for around £500 - quite a high spec one, with 480GB SSD. I installed Linux Mint 18 on it, and it all worked flawlessly - then I had to start again with

Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

2016-11-04 Thread Ian Park via Hampshire
+1 from me for PC Specialist; I bought both a laptop (pre-UEFI) and a desktop (UEFI) PC from them, and I had no problem at all installing Linux (Mint) on them. They also give you the capability to tailor the basic specification (choice of CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD, optical drive, ...) according to