Computer prombles again - Page 6

#76

07.09.2008, 09:50

Carlton Miniott

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Frank Erskine
said:
> A few years after I left school I visited the alma mater (at a nopen
> day/evening) and the back end of one of the classrooms had been
> partitionèd off and been fittèd with some sort of pewter terminals
> connectèd, I goove, to the Technical College - all punchèd tape type
> technology.
>
> The thin end of the wedge, I fear...

YoungBloke starts school on Monday. Even the Reception class has 2 PCs
for student use as well as the one the teacher uses with one of those
wizzy magic whiteboards that are somehow a BFO touchscreen.

#77

07.09.2008, 10:35

Esra Sdrawkcab

Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
> The message <o8Bwk.54060$E41.50800>
> from Esra Sdrawkcab <admin> contains these words:
>> Looxury! We 'ad an abacus.
>
Is the correct next in line

You 'ad it eezy! we 'ad to use us fingers (Them as 'ad 'em)

#78

07.09.2008, 10:39

Esra Sdrawkcab

Pedt wrote:
> In message <313030303230303848C2DB1759>, at 19:33:43
> on Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wibbled
>
> Coo! Posh!
>
> My old flaptop has a 10MB MFM HD in an expansion box - along with 2MB of
> EMS memory.
>
I was quite upset when our boss threw out our Amstrad dual floppy
luggable with fullsize keyboard - would have been great for bootdisk
development (that I was doing at the time).
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=195

#79

07.09.2008, 10:40

Esra Sdrawkcab

Richard Robinson wrote:
> Rusty Hinge 2 said:
>> from Esra Sdrawkcab <admin> contains these words:
>>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>>> I can unforget 8K computers and cassette tapes for storage...
>>> Looxury. we' ad sliderules.
>> Looxury! We 'ad an abacus.
>
> Eeeby'ecketc. We 'ad to evolve digits.
>
Krecktly played.

Our tribe didn't even have arithmetic
One,two, many.

#80

07.09.2008, 11:11

Esra Sdrawkcab

Znep wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Andy Burns) wrote in
> <2eKdnQON7sbcoV_VnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d>::
>> Lydia runs XP Pro in 192MB - well, "strolls" would be nearer the truth.
>
> Delivered an eee 1000 to a custard today, for her son what is off to
> uni. Very nice little chamine it is too, sorta handbag/big pocket size
> but a usable screen and keyboard. Also supplied a separate LCD monitor,
> wireless rodent and keyboard and outboard DVD box and disk box, for when
> it's in desktop mode. Lydia wants one, now. *sigh*
I saw some boxes (yup I picked one up, they're empty boxes) at Tesco
Acer One £199, 512M, 8G? SD storage and another for £250 with 1G and
120G HD. Comes with FE to Linux, Linpus.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...r-aspire-one/1

http://direct.tesco.com/search/defau...&confirm .y=0

#81

07.09.2008, 11:17

Esra Sdrawkcab

Carlton Miniott wrote:
> Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Esra Sdrawkcab
> said:
>> Looxury. we' ad sliderules.
>>
> I've still got 2.
>
> A nabacus hit me on the head yesterday morning.
>
> I'm now storing it on a different shelf, and flat.

You an't get the batteries for'em

#82

07.09.2008, 11:31

Austin Shackles

On or around Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:02:44 +0100, Znep
<E-0C001302-3177-E> enlightened us thusly:

>In uk.rec.sheds, (Andy Burns) wrote in
><2eKdnQON7sbcoV_VnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d>::
>
>>On 05/09/2008 23:26, Carlton Miniott wrote:
>>
>>> Half a gig's about the min for XP
>>
>>IRTA "a gig's about half the min for XP" and was about to unagree.
>
>Lydia runs XP Pro in 192MB - well, "strolls" would be nearer the truth.

I've had it running on 64MB, but it spent most of its time swapping.

both machines here have 2GB.

>Delivered an eee 1000 to a custard today, for her son what is off to
>uni. Very nice little chamine it is too, sorta handbag/big pocket size
>but a usable screen and keyboard. Also supplied a separate LCD monitor,
>wireless rodent and keyboard and outboard DVD box and disk box, for when
>it's in desktop mode. Lydia wants one, now. *sigh*

Actually, the eeeeee is quite cute, and doubtless quite adequate for 90% of
what most people do with a computer.

#83

07.09.2008, 12:56

Znep

In uk.rec.sheds, (Rusty Hinge 2) wrote in
<313030303230303848C2DA9D04>::

>The message <6ieu3mFqbrejU1>
>from "Cerumen" <cerumen.chris> contains these words:
>
>I always gooved batses were meeces on their way up to Heaven.

It's the RAF, innit: Rodent Air Force.

#84

07.09.2008, 12:58

Znep

In uk.rec.sheds, (Rob) wrote in
<1imvbnp.13azpibdnkpkmN%robraitxxxxx>::

>Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wrote:
>>Mine too - is yours an EEE? Nice bit of kit. Jbexf amazingly well at
>running DivX videos - the sound it produces through headphones is
>eggcellent.

Yeah, I'm impressed with the build quality, as well as the performance.

I quite fancy one for wandering around the house with, or taking on
holibobs. Will have to wait for the money fairy.

#85

07.09.2008, 13:02

Znep

In uk.rec.sheds, (Esra Sdrawkcab) wrote in
<1NNwk.54341$E41.52829>::

>Znep wrote:
>I saw some boxes (yup I picked one up, they're empty boxes) at Tesco
>Acer One £199, 512M, 8G? SD storage and another for £250 with 1G and
>120G HD. Comes with FE to Linux, Linpus.
>
>[..]
>
>[..]

Out of stock. And it's Tesco.

ALDI have a Medion re-badged version of the MSI Wind- with a *free*
3-year warranty, and similar spec.

#86

07.09.2008, 13:06

Znep

In uk.rec.sheds, (Austin Shackles) wrote in
<n9b7c45td1fdtm2u7mcpbchoadst53rnt0>::

>On or around Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:02:44 +0100, Znep
><E-0C001302-3177-E> enlightened us thusly:
>>I've had it running on 64MB, but it spent most of its time swapping.
>
>both machines here have 2GB.
>>Actually, the eeeeee is quite cute, and doubtless quite adequate for 90% of
>what most people do with a computer.

Quite a good machine for the stated purpose- he wanted a very compact
machine to take to lecures/labs, but able to do more on it back at his
study place. So, small box with good battery life and a usable
screen/keyboard, then a separate KVM set up for static use, outboard DVD
for loads etc (and playing DVDs) and a bit outboard disk for backups,
music and photos.

He was very pleased with it, and so were his parents. He's one of four,
so if nowt else I suspect I'll get three similar orders over the years!

Only made about 50 quid on the deal, TBH, but every little helps. They
could have done all this themselves, and saved the 50 quid, but it's
worth it for them to get stuff that all jbexes together and is nicely
set-up.

#87

07.09.2008, 13:07

Znep

In uk.rec.sheds, (Rusty Hinge 2) wrote in
<313030303230303848C2DCE430>::

>The message <c2b5c49bfiug6lcakgoke3j7b0lb381ect>
>from Austin Shackles <austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS>
>contains these words:
>
>>Belkin USB laser glow-mouse, here. seems to do the biz, not cheap though.
>
>Gotta Typhoon optic mouse (Hic!). Were secondhand when I were given it
>SFP 'bout four years ago, and it's still fine, touch wood.

Ooh. I've got one of those. Solid, isn't it? And the side buttons are
handy.

#88

07.09.2008, 13:33

keith

Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:
> I saw some boxes (yup I picked one up, they're empty boxes) at Tesco
> Acer One £199, 512M, 8G? SD storage

6G usable, but you can plug in an SD card which seamlessly combines with
the SSD.

and another for £250 with 1G and
> 120G HD. Comes with FE to Linux, Linpus.

Likely to be the Windows Flavour with the extra memory and hard drive.
>
> [..]
>
> [..]
>
I got one of them, It's pretty well crippled 'out of the box' until you
activate the 'advanced' mode, then it's hugely customisable and will
shortly ship with a double sized battery, with sommat like 7 hours life.

#89

07.09.2008, 14:15

Dr Ivan D. Reid

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:02:26 +0100, Znep <E-0C001302-3177-E>
wrote in <skg7c4hf02of7h5sifr14bv8dmfqkm9qfo>:

> ALDI have a Medion re-badged version of the MSI Wind- with a *free*
> 3-year warranty, and similar spec.

Got one this morning. For some strange reason they wanted me to
fill in a TVL form (the girl didn't even know what it was, "Oh, it's in
case something goes wrong!") so I gave the University's details.

Couldn't locate McAfee on my memory sticks (I thought I had it)
so that will be the first job tomorrow. Finally managed to get it talking
to the Livebox (after typing in that 100-digit WEP key about a dozen times...
so now its updates are up to date and it's crunching setis to batten the
flattery.

#90

07.09.2008, 16:27

Esra Sdrawkcab

Znep wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Esra Sdrawkcab) wrote in
> <1NNwk.54341$E41.52829>::
>> Out of stock. And it's Tesco.
>
> ALDI have a Medion re-badged version of the MSI Wind- with a *free*
> 3-year warranty, and similar spec.
Little bit more
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers...37sunday08.htm
Ooh it's today. Bah too late now.

Ta for tip off; I wasn't commending them - indeed I don't goov nicely of
Tesco (see "Tescopoly" ffi), but there do seem to be a few in the
price/size bracket.

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