Re: [SLUG] Solid State Disk Works Okay with Linux on Kogan Laptop

2011-12-15 Thread Tom Worthington
On 14/12/11 19:53, Jake Anderson wrote: On 12/12/2011 09:27 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: ... replaced the 2.5 Inch SATA disk drive with a Solid State Disk (SSD) ... double check your file system has options appropriate to make use of TRIM ... Done for the main partition. But I was not sure if

Re: [SLUG] Solid State Disk Works Okay with Linux on Kogan Laptop

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Anderson
On 12/16/2011 08:31 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: On 14/12/11 19:53, Jake Anderson wrote: On 12/12/2011 09:27 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: ... replaced the 2.5 Inch SATA disk drive with a Solid State Disk (SSD) ... double check your file system has options appropriate to make use of TRIM ...

Re: [SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
I will give pclinux a go next time, I think. Well, by lack of answers it would seem Android may just be a toy. Given nobody is putting their hand up to say 'yeah, its a good work tool'. Will run a phone though.. No debate about that. On 12/15/11, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: On

Re: [SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread James Linder
On 16/12/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrong smile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores..

[SLUG] Re: Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread elliott-brennan
Is anyone on the list using Android for a significant amount of work? I've been considering the Asus Transformer for the ability to have a proper keyboard and touch pad and then use it as a tablet when that's all I want. However, I see it as a bigger version of my phone - with a bigger

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
Well I noticed that it has gftp, some text-editors, maybe geany, a command line. It can run python and compile java. Subversion it can also run I think. So I'd say its got the potential not to be a toy. On 12/16/11, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on the list using

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread elliott-brennan
All of which is fair enough. I guess it depends on your definition of work. In general a text editor lets me do the work I'm interested in. Most of the rest (eg. video editing), for me, requires a lot more grunt. This is not a criticism of Android as it's not aimed at these areas of work.