Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-07 Thread Georgia Thomson
On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the wh

[Scottish] clearout saga, part one of many

2009-06-07 Thread Georgia Thomson
Ok folks, this is the first part of what will likely be a long clearout process. I'm looking at moving out of scotland on a permanent bsis, and I'm not taking things i don't NEED. most of this stuff is either free or exchangeable for some kind of beerage 1 x SGI indigo 2 (the purple one) fre

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-17 Thread Georgia Thomson
no, it's standard grade up here. but if the gcse was more useful than it currently is, then the scottish system would pretty much be forced to change to match the english standard, or leave the scottish students at significant disadvantage Colin Speirs wrote: > Are GCSE's a thing in scotland?

Re: [Scottish] processors

2006-11-15 Thread Georgia Thomson
quite a collection you have there, though, why do you have the A1200 hard drive in the acellerator bay? I have an SGI box and a sun box looking for a home if you want to expand the collection... also an HP9000, but it's a big um HUGE and power hungry. On 11/15/06, Alistair J. Ross <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Scottish] processors

2006-11-15 Thread Georgia Thomson
On 11/14/06, Mitchell Hagerty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Georgia, Don't count out the 8088 and 80186, You can find an 88 in IBM ATs (often recycled as electric gate controllers) and the 186 was primarily used in printers. Find a printer from the mid-80's you've probably found a 186. Good h

Re: [Scottish] processors

2006-11-15 Thread Georgia Thomson
i can give you a 166 for your smoothwall box, in exchange for the 150... On 11/14/06, willie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:13, Georgia Thomson wrote: > Hi everyone. just checking if any of you have any of the following > processors lying in your b

[Scottish] processors

2006-11-14 Thread Georgia Thomson
Hi everyone. just checking if any of you have any of the following processors lying in your boxes o' bits. myself and a friend are doing a similar project and are collecitng pentium CPUs, I'm also collecting older x86 CPUs. there's beer tokens and / or beer waiting. here's the list of what we

[Scottish] OT: laptops for charity

2006-09-11 Thread Georgia Thomson
Hi, I've been roped into helping a local charity try to get a good deal on 4 laptops for general use. Current minimum spec seems pretty reasonable for what they need them for, Can anyone recommend any vendors to approach with the possibility of any kind of discount for a registered charity, or ve

Re: [Scottish] RE: xbox linux (again)

2004-10-17 Thread Georgia Thomson
Des Quinn wrote: X-Equinox Consulting-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Equinox Consulting-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, First post so be gentle :) Recently been thinking about going down this route, and had this link

Re: [Scottish] xbox linux (again)

2004-10-15 Thread Georgia Thomson
not as far as i'm aware, playstation2 can run linux, but with a lot more work than is required for an xbox to do so. regards Georgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a PS One be used ? Original Message: - From: Georgia Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:04:32

[Scottish] xbox linux (again)

2004-10-14 Thread Georgia Thomson
ok, its getting to the time of year people start thinkign about christmas pressies. for those of you getting xboxes for christmas, or just because, i am still interested in running an xbox linux workshop early in the new year. primarily it will be talking people through the actual modification

Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre

2004-05-17 Thread Georgia Thomson
if i can get jigdo to work, i'm happy enough to do debian DVDs. and that does sound like a plan. On 17 May 2004, at 10:45, William Anderson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] not if the 20 quid was being donated to something (and i'm not sure the beer fund counts for that one, but that'

Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre

2004-05-17 Thread Georgia Thomson
not if the 20 quid was being donated to something (and i'm not sure the beer fund counts for that one, but that's something someone else should figure out) On 17 May 2004, at 09:36, William Anderson wrote: Phil Deane wrote: [monitor donation snippage] I got a friend in work who is looking f

Re: [Scottish] 2H 2004

2004-05-07 Thread Georgia Thomson
do that talk at EdLug over in Edinburgh too, would you? P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AndyP Sent: 06 May 2004 20:36 To: SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] 2H 2004 Sounds interesting to me, might make me get one. On Thu, 2004-05-06 at

Re: [Scottish] 2H 2004

2004-05-06 Thread Georgia Thomson
well, i'll put i to the list, since i think i've mentioned it a fair few times on IRC. If there is enough interest (roughly 8 - 12 people) i am willing to do an "xbox linux workshop" basically right through from cracking the case open, to the final installation of the linux distro. replies to

Re: [Scottish] DVDrw drives - advice?

2004-03-08 Thread Georgia Thomson
steer WELL clear of the sony one. my mate had a hard enough time getting it to work. it reads media fine, but is apparently very fussy with what media it will write to, both CD and DVD. other than that, i dont know about any of them. I have a Pioneer DVR-105 and have had no problems with it/