Comments on: Computer News http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2009/05/07/computer-news/ random snippets from our world Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pa http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2009/05/07/computer-news/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Pa Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:23 +0000 http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/?p=934#comment-771 Jeff -- The 'ancient laptop' is probably not a good candidate. I had Ubuntu running on my old Toshiba a couple years ago, and it was a tight fit then. Now the minimum recommended hardware has 512MB ram and 4GB HDD. Note that I did reinstall the UNR on a larger partition when I started having trouble installing updates with just 2.5MB HDD partition. Jeff — The ‘ancient laptop’ is probably not a good candidate. I had Ubuntu running on my old Toshiba a couple years ago, and it was a tight fit then. Now the minimum recommended hardware has 512MB ram and 4GB HDD. Note that I did reinstall the UNR on a larger partition when I started having trouble installing updates with just 2.5MB HDD partition.

]]> By: jeff http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2009/05/07/computer-news/comment-page-1/#comment-770 jeff Sun, 10 May 2009 15:55:13 +0000 http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/?p=934#comment-770 The homepage looks a little cleaner, so thumbs-up there. Saw the release of the netbook Ubuntu release & thought it might be worthwhile to install on the ancient laptop still lying around, but since the wifi adapter I have is so outdated it'd be little more than a glorified word processor at this point, so I think I'll let it rest. I like the 3 hour rule, too. The homepage looks a little cleaner, so thumbs-up there. Saw the release of the netbook Ubuntu release & thought it might be worthwhile to install on the ancient laptop still lying around, but since the wifi adapter I have is so outdated it’d be little more than a glorified word processor at this point, so I think I’ll let it rest.

I like the 3 hour rule, too.

]]> By: Ma http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2009/05/07/computer-news/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Ma Thu, 07 May 2009 19:39:17 +0000 http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/?p=934#comment-769 I embrace your 3 hour rule--I find it more and more difficult to get so caught up in yard work that I forget the time: knees, shoulders, back all let me know when my three hours are up. Glad you're happy with the drupal and ubuntu (where do they get these unsavory names?), but I sure can't see a difference, I embrace your 3 hour rule–I find it more and more difficult to get so caught up in yard work that I forget the time: knees, shoulders, back all let me know when my three hours are up. Glad you’re happy with the drupal and ubuntu (where do they get these unsavory names?), but I sure can’t see a difference,

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