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DATE | 2009-12-10 |
FROM | Mark Halegua
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] A Possible Solution?
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From lestw-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Dec 10 20:07:21 2009 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id nBB17JCJ017744 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:07:21 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id nBB17JgI017743 for hangout-outgoings; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:07:19 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lestw-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.69]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id nBB17GI9017738 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:07:18 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=T0JhBO6ZXS87tOLizRx3aiKt+dKW3BpP8uvwhiiuQB/jL/Lv6INBsuG4yeC59AwE; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [24.239.145.16] (helo=acer-laptop.localnet) by elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NItyT-0006tL-Pj for hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:07:13 -0500 From: Mark Halegua To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] A Possible Solution? Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <21081.9494.qm-at-web38004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4B212253.90704-at-panix.com> In-Reply-To: <4B212253.90704-at-panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912102107.40901.> X-ELNK-Trace: 15ea70b12533b7e3b22988ad1c62733440683398e744b8a4f5f45247407503b748634b3e2b3c7e392601a10902912494350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.239.145.16 Sender: lestw-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
On Thursday 10 December 2009 11:31:15 am mrbrklyn wrote: > Elfen Magix wrote: > > I notice that the dumb and hopeless masses of the windows world in my > > college are interested in using Linux and eventually switch to it one > > day. But many of them have bought new laptops and netbooks, which comes > > with Windows X/Vista/7 on it, and are afraid to erase the drive for it > > would void their warentee (So says the warentee). > > > > I also noticed that many of these new systems can boot from the USB and > > other media card slots (if they have them). What I intend to do is to > > set up a couple of 4 - 8 GB USB Flash drives with Ubuntu on them and give > > them out; see how that will work for them. If they like it, They may > > switch to Linux in a couple of months. > > > > Let see what happens. > > My experience with the HP Mini hasn't been simple. There are a lot of > hardware issues. > > Ruben > I just got an Acer Aspire One, the 11.6" model with 2GB RAM and 250 GB HD. I loaded Kubuntu 9.10 on it and it works great. It detected all the hardware (webcam, USB ports, WiFi, eth0, multi-camera card slots, etc.
I only have 2 issues with it. The video can be 1333x768 but it will only do 1024x768. And it has a problem with the battery. Initially, its fine. However, after suspending to sleep, when it wakes, it says there is no battery (it works without plugging into electricity) and won't give me how much battery is left. When I plug into power, then unplug the power, it then sees the battery.
Weird.
By the way, I love the netbook. I think Acer is an underrated PC manufacturer. I have 3 Acer systems, laptop 3 year old), desktop, and now the netbook. I've never had to call Acer tech support. Not THAT'S GOOD!
Mark
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