I can also attest to issues with Packard Bell support. After having to RMA
a laptop 3 times for the same issue (hard drive failures, all within the
warranty period), I was finally placated when I got a full refund as
compensation... for them losing my laptop at the service center. Avoid at
all cost
On 31 October 2011 09:58, Robert Flatters wrote:
> This will be a growing problem, if there is no step processes in place to
> get UEFI turned off you HP Guy will have big problems in the coming months.
> I fear Microsoft is trying to lockout Linux from installing on new machine.
UEFI isn't somet
On 30 October 2011 18:59, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 04:22:05PM +0000, Michael Holmes wrote:
>> On 30 October 2011 15:19, alan c wrote:
>> > ... “My friend recently got an HP s5-1110 with Win 7 installed.
>> > UEFI has prevented the installat
On 30 October 2011 15:19, alan c wrote:
> ... “My friend recently got an HP s5-1110 with Win 7 installed.
> UEFI has prevented the installation of GRUB on this machine.
This is going to happen even if you don't have Secure Boot. UEFI and
BIOS *do not* have compatible boot systems. You need a
I can see a few problems with this:
* If it comes turned off by default, then most people won't be
distributing the upgrades.
* If it is turned on by default, people with caps will quickly max
out, and most ill turn it off, going back to problem one.
* Less popuar packages will heve little to no "
Hi,
Please refrain from using HTML in messages to the list. It can cause
problems for many people, and the colours can annoy some people.
Michael Holmes
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2008/11/14 Paul Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/ubuntu-sticker-bumper/158648386
>
> $4.49
>
> Not sure what the current exchange rate is,
>
Cafepress says £3.03 here.
Mike
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Thanks Michael,
I'll try to perhaps bring in the legacy drivers from the Hardy repos onto a
new Ibex system, and I may file a bug at Launchpad regarding the situation.
Mike
2008/11/2 Michael Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi,
>
> Short answer is no.
>
> Long answer is that for me it was fixed in an
Hello everyone.
I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but I have a slightly old machine with
an integrated GeForce 4 MX GPU chipset.
Now, the last version I tried in Hardy had a bad compatability problem with
the (then) latest NVIDIA legacy drivers, and they simply refused to work,
namely Xorg would
I thought I'd ask here if you dont mind, but does anyone have any
recommendations on which laptop brands I should go for and which I should
avoid? Any help appreciated.
Michael Holmes
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Mac wrote:
| Michael Holmes wrote:
|> ...I'll check out dBPowerAmp as soon as I install Wine, and the
|> M4As I have aren't DRM'd anyway :) (It's Apple's M4P's that are
|> protected, as far as I know)
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|> SoundConverter has worked well for me with this kind of job.
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| Sorry, Michael - I didn't make clear that SoundConverter doesn't do AAC,
| hence my other suggestions.
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Thanks Mac, I'll check out dBPowerAmp as
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Hey guys,
Just need some quick advice on a good piece of software to convert my
audio library (currently in about 8 hours of music, mainly MP3 but a few
in AAC too) to Ogg Vorbis.
Cheers,
Michael Holmes
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I've generally had a good experience with Hitachi (I'm using one now that
works fine with linux).
Last Seagate I had died after 5 months.
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It's a matter of choice. I'm using Kubuntu right now (I've tried KDE4
but it is awful in my opinion)
On 2/3/08, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did I say Kfce?
>
> Brain was clearly having a strange day... it was, of course, Xfce I meant.
>
> Sean
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Evesham's build quality used to be good. I bought a machine from them in '98
(before Windows 98's launch though, still had 95 on floppies) and the
machine lasted 8 years of constant use before the motherboard ps/2 ports
burnt out and the monitor (nearly) caught fire. Can't vouch for them now,
howev
I'm with Orange for ADSL (I don't live in a cable area) and they aren't that
bad, fast speeds even on weekends. Used to be with Tiscali. Tiscali suck.
They block all P2P traffic (including Bittorrent, good for getting LiveCDs
of Ubuntus and other Linux Distrubutions or Unix like Operating Systems.
Rob,
Being a user of T-Mobile UK, I can testify that it is just £1 for a day's
bandwidth.
Mike
On 6/30/07, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
alan c wrote:
> I am delighted to find that (with Kubuntu 7.04) a Vodafone 3G card
> (pcmcia) with T-Mobile SIM (payg) works easily in my Dell Inspir
I am just asking a simple question.
I have an nVidia GeForce 4 MX integrated card. Do I need nvidia-glx or
nvidia-glx-legacy for hardware emulation?
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Yet another stunner from Google:
>
> http://www.google.com/tisp/
>
> M.
>
Heh, that was a good one. Better than last year?
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