On 02/02/2009 17:27, Alec Wright wrote:
> I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive
> looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a
> MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe
> pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The
Contact your Trading Standards Department, you are not expected to be out of
pocket due to defective goods. Michael
--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Alec Wright wrote:
> From: Alec Wright
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk"
> Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009,
I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive
looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a
MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe
pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so
you cant install anything el
UNetbootin works fine but if you're able to run Ubuntu elsewhere, go to
System/Administration/Create a USB startup disk - with that you'll need a
USB memory stick of at least 1 Gig and a linux ISO image. Once done, reboot
(change bios if needed and from that point on it's just like using a live
boo
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:04 +, Robert Longstaff wrote:
> > I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
> > to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
> > work on it, and how would I install it?
>
> I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm ve
> I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
> to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
> work on it, and how would I install it?
I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately
wiped out Linpus and put generic
On 02/02/2009 14:02, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote:
> John,
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
> James.
>
From what I understand they have a MIPS CPU (which rules out running
Ubuntu) and it doesn't support things like Flash properly. To be honest
I'd ra
2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner
> John,
>
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
>
> James.
>
I have played with one of these, a branded Elonex one and the quality is
terrible. The keyboard is just 'too' small. At least with an Acer or Asus
netbook you can
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:02 +, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote:
> John,
>
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux
> on!
>
After a lot of research I discovered that these are arm based and no
good for any of the mobile versions of Ubuntu. The acers are about
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 13:56 +, John wrote:
> I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good
> specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it
> hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If
> anybody knows of a notebook that has one
John,
Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
James.
- Original Message -
From: John
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.
I finally found a relatively cheap note
I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good
specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it
hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody
knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know?
The specs are
Acer Aspire O
Including itself. I suspect someone may have typed "Google" into Google, and
that can break the Internet, as every IT manager knows.
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, mac wrote:
> Simon Wears wrote:
> > Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire internet
> as
> > Malware.
>
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 19:34 +, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 2009/1/30 Dianne Reuby :
> >
> > OK, ignore me - I've reinstalled .09. rebooted and it's OK. Apart from
> > my username/logoff button being missing. But who'd want to log off
> > anyway?
> >
>
> :-)
>
> Seriously though, if you want it ba
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