Hi All
I am thinking of 'upgrading' from my trusty 7" EEEPC (I can get round
the 7" screen but the 4GB SSD and 512MB RAM are too limiting).
Does anyone have experience of the ACER Aspire One D255 Netbook? There
are one or two good deals on it and it seems a reasonable spec.
The documentation o
As far as I can tell, my girlfriend had the machine at the mo, it does not
have an expresscard slot, and I know it does have the double height return
key.
On May 15, 2011 12:17 AM, "Jim Price" wrote:
> On 14/05/11 22:50, Kris Douglas wrote:
>> I have one from PCS, they don't use US keyboards. I as
On 14/05/11 22:50, Kris Douglas wrote:
I have one from PCS, they don't use US keyboards. I asked on the phone, they
are just from US suppliers stock photos.
May I ask if it has the UK style double-height return key or is it the
same height as the rest of the keys?
The other thing you might b
I have one from PCS, they don't use US keyboards. I asked on the phone, they
are just from US suppliers stock photos.
On May 14, 2011 2:52 PM, "Jim Price" wrote:
> On 13/05/11 10:57, Richard Smith wrote:
>> I am thinking of buying a xenon 14" laptop from pcspecialist, can anyone
>> see any major p
Thanks for your comments. I think I probably will buy one, and let you
know how I get on. I am not a big gamer so hopefully the graphics won't
be an issue, and I can't type that fast so likewise with the keyboard.
As I haven't used windows for a couple of years, and don't feel I am
missing anything
On 13/05/11 10:57, Richard Smith wrote:
I am thinking of buying a xenon 14" laptop from pcspecialist, can anyone
see any major problems with ubuntu on it.
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/xenon/
The Xenon has the Sandy Bridge laptop processor/chipset. Ubuntu 11.04
has Sandy Bridge suppo
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:50 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
> Thanks for that Alan. I'll take a closer look. sema_init works just
> fine in place of MUTEX, but needs a second parameter. I used '1' which
> seems to work OK. I'll look at the reference above and see what I've
> been doing.
A semaphore
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 23:56 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> mutex is short for mutually exclusive, it means that if the lock is set
> then no other parallel process is allowed to mess with the thing that is
> being locked. Semaphores are like mutexes but are slightly more
> sophisticated.
>
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