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Bite the Bullet
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| As I have previously mentioned, a friend
| contacted me Friday morning with a dead
| laptop - major graphic hardware problems.
| This was a system that I had worked on
| before, so I knew the most likely case was
| that there would be no saving it this
| time. So I told her to bring it to me, and
| I would extract her data and prepare
| another system for her to use while she
| decided on a new purchase.
|
| My plan was to prepare my mini-ITX dual
| Atom 330 desktop system with the latest
| Ubuntu distribution (10.04, Lucid Lynx).
| After transfering her documents and data,
| she would be able to surf the web
| (Firefox), email (Thunderbird), and work
| on MS Office documents (OpenOffice.org).
| From experience I know that loading from
| scratch, transferring her data, and
| showing her the high points of using those
| programs instead of the Windows programs
| she was accustomed to, would take me about
| two hours.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-random-musings-10006480/bite-the-bullet-10015717/
It Never Rains but it Pours PCs
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| I just chatted with a teacher working
| late. He wants to try GNU/Linux because he
| is so tired of that other OS making him
| wait all the time. I will bet one of these
| new machines will be a rocket with
| GNU/Linux. I am unwilling to accept the
| EULA, too. I accidentally got that far
| into one when I applied power to insert
| SystemRescueCD instead of using the paper-
| clip trick. I did some tests:
|
| * all the hardware works with Linux
| * full disc reads at 110MB/s average,
| 130 MB/s peak.
| * memory cache runs at 18 gB/s
|
| I am leaning towards converting these
| machines for GNU/Linux terminal servers on
| a per-classroom basis. That will give the
| teacher total control of the studentsâ
| processes and a power-house multimedia
| station all at the same time. The
| advantages of the studentsâ processes
| running on a 64bit machine with RAID 1 and
| 3gB RAM are huge. If the teacher already
| has an application loaded, the studentsâ
| windows will pop open in the blink of an
| eye. I need some network switches soonâ
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/17/it-never-rains-but-it-pours-pcs/
Getting a Ubuntu Laptop setup for my Mum
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| As sitting in the garden while surfing the
| internet is way cooler than only having a
| dedicated computer in an office we decided
| to get a notebook while at it. As both
| Thilo and myself are very familiar with
| Linux, the plan was to get a Linux-
| compatible netbook, install Ubuntu on it,
| get wireless up and running, pre-configure
| the necessary applications and hand it
| over after a short usage introduction.
|
| [...]
|
| For two weeks now mom is now happy user of
| the Ubuntu netbook edition â step by step
| learning how to write e-mails, chat and
| use the internet. As usual first thing we
| tried out was searching for vacation
| destinations, but also for at least my
| name.
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http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/189/getting-a-ubuntu-laptop-setup-for-my-mum
Someone has already posted this one too (good article):
When Microsoft hardware works more easily on Ubuntu than XP
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| How often have you heard the words "it's
| difficult to get this software/hardware
| working on Linux, that's why it hasn't
| caught the mass imagination"?
|
| On the other hand, how often have you
| heard that it's more difficult to get
| software/hardware working on Windows
| compared to Linux - but others do it for
| you so you aren't exposed to the problem?
|
| My personal experience is more of the
| latter and much less of the former. The
| latest example I have to offer is that of
| hardware made by Microsoft itself -
| LifeChat USB audio headphones.
|
| A bit of background. My children have run
| through eight pairs of headsets in the
| last two years, most of them LogiTech, for
| one reason or the other - the sound fails,
| parts break, the wires come loose. Each
| set costs something in the region of $40
| so it ain't cheap stuff.
|
| Whenever any set which they are using
| fails, they grab the one sitting on their
| mother's PC and behave as though nothing
| has happened. I have to then buy my wife a
| new set.
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http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/39127-when-microsoft-hardware-works-more-easily-on-ubuntu-than-xp
Recent:
How to switch your small or home office to Linux
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| We're getting ahead of ouseselves a little
| here: while it's good to know that things will
| still work, you'll find that maintaining
| Windows compatibility becomes less of an issue
| as you get used to the new set of tools that
| Linux offers.
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http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/cxoffice-linux/how-to-switch-your-small-or-home-office-to-linux.html
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