On Tue, April 8, 2008 16:08, stringer wrote:
> eee pc's are good if you can cope with the small keyboard and only 4 Gig
> of storage and a tiny screen (see below)
I was interested to see that the XP version of the EEE is now available at
Dickies for $100 more than the original Linux version. The
This seems to be what I have gleaned -
Wifi can be a problem, but not a major one Sometimes there can be problems
with, for example, power saving, sleep mode on cover closure etc. Best to
try it out first.
Better to pay the extra for a dual processor
eee pc's are good if you can cope with th
In the absents of Rik, is someone else bringing a projector?
Cheers Don
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Okay, I tried writing a wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a colon
seperated list of directories, where I have put the .so files, but this
doesn't seem to work. I tried it in an emulator without any of the libraries
it needs, and it complained a
Don,
> How do I work out what mail server software I'm even using - I wouldn't
> have a clue, it just works so I've never looked further.
I just checked the headers of the e-mail you sent. This is what it says:
Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by bowenvale.pointc
Stephen Irons wrote:
Thunderbird does not quite support this.
That's one issue I thought of, and a quick check of my message headers
would explain why TB is important to me...
TB is a bit slow on my Linux laptop...
Web mail on my mail server doesn't have that option...
I use all these from
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Err... no. The name difference soft of gives that away (:
Like
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Laptops/Accessories/auction-149187374.htm?p=1
which is out of an hp, and, as the 43xx chipset is supported will work fine,
as long as you're happy with 802.11b only.
I didn
Don Gould wrote:
>
>
> Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> I use GNU Anubis as an SMTP proxy to do just this sort of thing.
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/
>
> Thank you. That is the package someone said before. I remember now.
>
> Is it hard to set up? Any Gotyas?
How about NOT changing any server se
Jim Cheetham wrote:
I use GNU Anubis as an SMTP proxy to do just this sort of thing.
http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/
Thank you. That is the package someone said before. I remember now.
Is it hard to set up? Any Gotyas?
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:23:23 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >> I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi.
> > Given that the wifi is provided 99% of the time by a mini pci card,
> > replacing it with a supported one isn't r
Anyone else been here before me?
Refer to http://linuxmce.org if you are at all interested. (I'm sure
those who have tried this will not need their memory refreshed).
Rationale is that I am interested in almost all aspects except Asterisk
of this project.
Brat.
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fn:Brett Davidson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My email client is set to default to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm subscribed to the list as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Half the time I forget to click the drop down to select the right identity
> so messages get bounced.
>
> How do I
I recall I might have asked this question years ago... but I can't
remember what the name of the package is that you use to do it...
My email client is set to default to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm subscribed to the list as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Half the time I forget to click the drop down to select t
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi.
Given that the wifi is provided 99% of the time by a mini pci card, replacing
it with a supported one isn't really that difficult - well find someone with
good eyesight to plug the aerials back in.
stringer wrote:
Is there anything I should steer clear of?
HP.
Wifi:
I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi.
I ended up using ndiswrapper, which is ok (despite what others say) but
it's a pain. Every time I go to install another distro I have to work
out whe
Dick Smith Colombo St had a Acer for $689 with Ubuntu 7.10 installed, it was
there the week before last
Apparently it has wifi etc. all installed, the staff assured me it worked
but when I asked for a demo of the wifi got blank looks from the staff
there at the time (who seem to know very little a
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> the eeePC has the big advantage over the other two in that you can buy
> one through normal retail channels. I'd love to know what a member of
> the target audience thought of them.
I was intrigued with them also, and went into dickies for a quick
> So don't treat it as a showstopper - it can be addressed directly.
The Intel ipw series of mini-pci cards work 100% perfectly under linux.
Turn up this evening for a demo of a ipw2100 working in my T41 ThinkPad.
On 4/8/08, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:46 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stringer wrote:
> > Is there anything I should steer clear of?
>
> HP.
>
> Wifi:
>
> I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi.
Given that the wifi is provided 99% of the time by a mini pci c
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:55 +1200, stringer wrote:
> Dick SMith advertised an Acer Aspire AS5315 for $798 less $149
> cashback,
> but none left at Riccarton yesterday (Celeron processor, 512 MB ram,
> 80 Gig
> HDD, 15.4" display, DVD multi drive Visto Home licence)
> The guy tried to sell me the
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 00:46 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> I had a very quick play with one in Dickie's and found the keyboard a
> right pain on account of its size. These are machines are obviously
> designed for use by school children.
People with small hands at any rate. Not being sexist/r
The keyboard is designed for an under 10 years child's hand.
I had a very quick play with one in Dickie's and found the keyboard a
right pain on account of its size. These are machines are obviously
designed for use by school children.
Currently the screens are similarly tiny, but I understand th
As Don suggests..
Don Gould wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
If some kind soul could help me tomorrow evening, I'd be eternally
grateful.
Wonder if Neil will show up.
He knows all about this AP stuff. Rik knows a bit as well.
..my laptop Prism wireless can be made to work, as an Access
IMHO they are cool but the screen is waaay not so.
On Mon, April 7, 2008 9:44 pm, Andrew Errington wrote:
> How about an Asus EEE? Cheap, small, *very* portable, and comes
> pre-installed with Linux.
>
> Worth a look (Dickies has them), but I think you have to want the
> portability. The keyboa
stringer wrote:
Is there anything I should steer clear of?
HP.
Wifi:
I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi.
I ended up using ndiswrapper, which is ok (despite what others say) but
it's a pain. Every time I go to install another distro I have to work
out whe
How about an Asus EEE? Cheap, small, *very* portable, and comes
pre-installed with Linux.
Worth a look (Dickies has them), but I think you have to want the
portability. The keyboard is not too bad though.
A
In terms of the VISTA license. My advice - coming from working in a office
where it's installed on some of the machines - is get rid of it ASAP!! If
you need windows put XP or 2000 or something on there, VISTA will make you
throw your teddys on a regular basis!!
Ben
On 07/04/2008, Nick Rout <[EMAI
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