The message <MPG.232da5b6dc4a1ba098a59f>
from Carlton Miniott <davebudd> contains these words:

> A nabacus hit me on the head yesterday morning.

IRTA hibiscus bit me...

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:27:40 GMT, Esra Sdrawkcab <admin>
wrote in <MpSwk.54453$E41.42257>:
> Znep wrote:

>> ALDI have a Medion re-badged version of the MSI Wind- with a *free*
>> 3-year warranty, and similar spec.
> Little bit more
> [..]
> Ooh it's today. Bah too late now.

Sainsbury's sell the Medion for £300. I was a bit put off that
the in-store flyer in Aldi this morning had it as £299.99 but then I
realised that the wall posters had £279.99 and that was what was in their
ad in the Guardian yesterday, so I was ready to fight, but it only rang up
as £279.99. Turned out they gave me a silver one, but a lady at the next
till wanted 2xsilver but they only had one left, so she was most grateful
when I agreed to swap for a black one (which I preferred anyway, but it
made me look more altruistic to pretend to be colour-agnostic).

> 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.

Running two seti instances, and the wifi, with backlighting on, I
got 1h40' out of the battery. MobileMeter reckoned it was draining the
battery at about 15 W, which works out right for an 11.2 V 2200 mAh
battery. Medion will sell you a 5200 mAh battery for £49.99, which should
eke out to 4 hours or so. At idle (no WiFi, but backlight on) it was
still drawing 9 W, so light use time would be a bit less than double what
I achieved. Charging is at about 8 W, so 3 hours to charge from dead.
Some of these Lilliputers have a way to drop the processor back to 800 MHz
from the standard 1.6 GHz, but I can't find anything about that in the
manual.

On 07/09/2008 17:31, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

> Running two seti instances

I gooved the Atom weren't dual core, does SETI benefit from hyperfreds
or just fight with itself?

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:31:38 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
<Ivan.Reid> wrote:


> Sainsbury's sell the Medion for £300.

IRTA:- "Sainsbury's sell the mediocre for £300."

In message <slrngc7l07.m9m.Ivan.Reid>, Dr Ivan D. Reid
<Ivan.Reid> writes
>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.

The law says that any retailer who fryys TV apparatus must collect name
and address details from the buyer. It's nothing to do with the
warranty. Aldi think that anything with a screen is a TV, I had to fill
in the form when I got a minotaur from them. Expect a letter from HMG
telling you that they have no record of someone with your name having a
GI license at that address. Aldi will have told them that you bought a
GI.

On 7 Sep,
Bernard Peek <bap$> wrote:

> The law says that any retailer who fryys TV apparatus must collect name
> and address details from the buyer. It's nothing to do with the
> warranty. Aldi think that anything with a screen is a TV, I had to fill
> in the form when I got a minotaur from them. Expect a letter from HMG
> telling you that they have no record of someone with your name having a
> GI license at that address. Aldi will have told them that you bought a
> GI.

I had a row with sAad when I ohled a dvd player for my sis. They insisted on
name and address (obviously false). I've ohled sattelite gi from lAid and
iLlde, they /somethymes/ asked for details.

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:17:50 +0100, Frank Erskine <frank.erskine>
wrote in <9338c451jm2e3h6ljs3hhibu4mrr3e5a6j>:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:31:38 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
><Ivan.Reid> wrote:

>> Sainsbury's sell the Medion for £300.

> IRTA:- "Sainsbury's sell the mediocre for £300."

Well, that too...

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:53:24 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet.april2008>
wrote in <mqWdnYleXJaamlnVnZ2dnUVZ8vednZ2d>:
> On 07/09/2008 17:31, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

>> Running two seti instances

> I gooved the Atom weren't dual core, does SETI benefit from hyperfreds
> or just fight with itself?

Must be hyperfreds; I get two instances on all my hyperfredding P4s.
The performance isn't great, shaping up to be about 350 Cobblestones/day,
roughly comparable to a 2.0 GHz non-HT P4 I have running in a nold Dell
that I rescued from being thrown away, and had to replace a swathe of dodgy
electrolytics in. That's despite the Dell running Linux and being SSE2
while the Medion is Windows with SSSE3 (count them Ses!). But then, I
didn't buy it for number-crunching (even so, it's about three-and-a-half
times the performance of the 1 GHz Celeron loptap I bought for £1,000 in
2001).

Apparently there's a free SODIMM memory socket lurking under the
back cover...

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:23:06 +0100, Bernard Peek <bap$>
wrote in <1LQ2wrM63AxIFw0z>:
> In message <slrngc7l07.m9m.Ivan.Reid>, Dr Ivan D. Reid
><Ivan.Reid> writes
>>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.

> The law says that any retailer who fryys TV apparatus must collect name
> and address details from the buyer. It's nothing to do with the
> warranty. Aldi think that anything with a screen is a TV, I had to fill
> in the form when I got a minotaur from them. Expect a letter from HMG
> telling you that they have no record of someone with your name having a
> GI license at that address. Aldi will have told them that you bought a
> GI.

I think it's the inevitable mission-creep. Aldi have sold laptops
with auxilliary TV tuners, which naturally need the TVL declaration. So,
the salesdroids now think, "If I sell a laptop, it needs a TVL form". As
I said, I gave the Uni address. I'd have given a false name but I paid
with a debit card and I didn't know how vigilant they'd be over a mismatch.
In the event, the lass didn't appear to look at the form at all...

The message <dv06c41tlk8p2g8l8era9pbb6k9jams7ek>
from Frank Erskine <frank.erskine> contains these words:

> I had Frank Castle's Logarithmic and other Tables for Schools.

I goove I still have log tables¼.

> And a six-inch (or so) ( I don't like to brag) slide rule, in a
> leather case with two scale rules (one of which I still have
> (somewhere)).

I've a sliderule TAAAW.

> Serpently we didn't have any of these electric thingies (battery OR
> mains).

Nope - well, in our day electrickery was a bit of a novelty innit.

> 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.

Either that, or to a van der Graaf genny...

> The thin end of the wedge, I fear...

¼ Frankbait

The message <mb1MRBs3AxwIFwOJ>
from Pedt <"\"@ @\""> contains these words:
> In message <313030303230303848C2DB1759>, at 19:33:43
> on Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge>
> wibbled
> >The message <Ws6dnWG6-4XS1F_VRVnyiQA>
> >from Andy Burns <usenet.april2008> contains these words:

> >> On this flatpot, the NTFS partition is only 30 jiggerbites, but
> >> "DIR /S C:\" shows 174812 files in 74802 directories
> >
> >On my flaptop the whole HDD is only 4 gigglebites.
> >
> Coo! Posh!

> My old flaptop has a 10MB MFM HD in an expansion box - along with 2MB of
> EMS memory.

Even *MY* old flaptop topped that - 500 MB HDD and (IIRC) 16 MB RAM. It
ran DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11.

Still got it, but batris can't be got. (Could probably unmantle deid yin
and fill with arj cells, thobut.)

The message <1imvfuy.1cx7o3czhri39N%robraitxxxxx>
from robraitxxxxx (Rob) contains these words:
> Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wrote:

> I'd noticed that the battery didn't hold a charge too well - mine tends
> to get used every now and then for many hours (on mains) then not very
> much for a week or so - it always seems to be on half (or less) battery
> after a week of being switched off, despite being fully charged after
> the mains session. Can't think of anything that would discharge a
> plugged-in battery on a switched-off loptap...

> Will try the battery removal thing next time it's fully charged.

'Ang on a mo' while I conslut the ALUG list..............

__________________________________________________ ________

http://www.eeeuser.com/2008/07/01/cl...-quick-review/

According to eeeuser.com and the forums therein, those are the best ones
to get. I'm thinking of getting one when the battery on mine really
begins to tick me off, which is going to be soon. Just waiting on
available funds to be free...
__________________________________________________ _________

> I've observed that if the machine is "powered off" (via the
> GUI: logoff -> shutdown) when the battery is fully charged,
> a few days later the battery may be substantially discharged
> (e.g. currently at 20%, on a previous occasion dead flat).
>
> Might this be due to slow internal leakage in the battery?
>
I think it's because the power button is soft, i.e. it checks to see if
it's been pushed so it needs power for that..
> Might the computer in fact be quietly ticking over in the
> background even though nominally "shut down"?
>
> Would a different battery make a difference?
Not according to http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=34479 where
other users are discussing the same problem.
__________________________________________________ _________

The message <pdd6c4lt2cu7hiugj2ijqaifk1n6kna1la>
from Znep <E-0C001302-3177-E> contains these words:
> 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.

> 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 wanted an infra-dig rodean for mine, and for little more than the pbfg
of a standalone one, I ohled the rodean with a flaptop bag.

I can get the Eee, its PSU, roedean and enough sandwiches for a bus trip
from Naaaardge to Crewe in the ickle zipup pocket on the side, leaving
room inside the main compartment for USB DVD/CD drive, dressing-gown,
washbag, orange, bockle of pop, ect.

The message <MPG.232da5b6dc4a1ba098a59f>
from Carlton Miniott <davebudd> contains these words:
> 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 punished it before re-storing it?

The message <n9b7c45td1fdtm2u7mcpbchoadst53rnt0>
from Austin Shackles <austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS>
contains these words:

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

ATM, it's adequate for everything I need to do.