Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

2012-09-30 Thread Mark Woodward
I just got a Dell Inspiron i15R with an Intel i7, 8g RAM, 1T disk, usb3, wirelesss-N, HDMI, USB3, WebCam, and DVD+/-RW at Microcenter, I haven't plugged in the HDMI jack yet (I should do that soon), the install went flawless. No drivers, no weirdness, just worked with Ubuntu 12.04 On 09/29/201

Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

2012-09-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 09/29/2012 10:38 PM, David Kramer wrote: > Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5-year-old Dell D820 > laptop. Fixing it doesn't make financial sense, though I may throw it > on my rack and hook it up to my KVM for "something", as I've figured out > how to tell X to disable the intern

Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

2012-09-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:38:40PM -0400, David Kramer wrote: > Through work I can get significant discounts on Lenovo and HP laptops, > so I'm focusing on them. I just priced out a ThinkPad T530, and > it was over $900 with the discount, and I picked the slowest i5 > processor they have and 4GB R

[Discuss] understanding the Unix/Linux Command Line (geekblog via G+)

2012-09-30 Thread Bill Ricker
Gabor Szabo originally shared this post : An interesting explanation of the Unix/Linux command line and how things got their name.

Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

2012-09-30 Thread David Kramer
On 09/30/2012 07:49 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 09/29/2012 10:38 PM, David Kramer wrote: >> Either the backlight or the inverter died in my 5-year-old Dell D820 >> laptop. Fixing it doesn't make financial sense, though I may throw it >> on my rack and hook it up to my KVM for "something", as I've