[plug] New toy just arrived

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 19:30 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> You got me there ... I got the carbon fibre shell :(

Might not be so easily scratched - since it looks sort of matte rather
than shiny.
> 
> Still got a few days before my turns up and I will be using SourceMage 
> (Gentoo centric distro).

Should be worth a go - after I posted last night, I fired up the
OpenSUSE Slick distro I got with my last Linux Format, and it installed
absolutely perfectly - resized the XP partition down to 30GB (I need it
for work unfortunately), and installed at 1280x800 - it was terrific.
Then I installed grub in my / partition and used fdisk to make the /
partition bootable - it failed, but I'll look at it this weekend.
> 
> Will be interesting to see what gets broken.
> 
> How have you gone with Wifi and Bluetooth? (if at all)

Haven't had a chance - will post when I get further (probably this
weekend) - BTW there are at least 2 unsecured wireless networks that I
can see from my house (in XP)  ;-)

I have at least two friends - one in Argentina and one in the UK who
would've been onto those nets like a terrier on a rat. The one has no
other internet connection, and the other only uses his neighbour's
connection when he wants to download lots of stuff, "because his
connection may be uncapped" - jeez.  ;-)    I'm too honest.
> 
> Craig
> 
> Richard Meyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:31 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:40 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Richard
> >>>
> >>> I am really keen to hear how you get on as I too have just laid down 
> >>> some dollars
> >>> for the same machine.
> >>>
> >>> I will be most interested in how you get on getting all the different 
> >>> pieces working,
> >>> especially sound, wifi and the video card.
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>       
> >> I've had a touch of the dreaded lurgy the last couple of days, so I
> >> haven't done much, but I can tell you this baby is FAST - boots XP in
> >> about the time it takes my Athlon XP 2400+ to bring up GRUB.
> >>
> >> Why do Dell insist on loading down a defenceless little PC with GB and
> >> GB of crap, though. If I wanted McAfee, I would sign up for them, FFS!
> >>
> >> I have found two posts concerning the Dell Inspiron 6400 with Linux -
> >> here they are:
> >> http://individual.utoronto.ca/jaelle_kitty/inspiron6400/ with Radeon GPU
> >> http://jackyvuillemin.free.fr/dellinspiron6400.html  with Intel GPU
> >>
> >> The interior is wonderful, but I really think the Dell designers would
> >> be better spending their time designing "bling" for gangsters - it's
> >> gaudy. 
> >>
> >> I haven't even booted a "Live-CD" sorry - ;-)
> >>     
> >
> > Well, I have booted the Ubuntu Breezy Live CD, and it failed pretty
> > dismally - will follow up later. Things have to work, since the links
> > above are pretty happy, but since my sinuses are being stretched like
> > Ron Jeremy's latest flame.  (please note I had spell checkers on, but
> > Linux offers no checkers for taste ....)
> >
> > Also I hope you didn't fall for the "colour coded kits" - I got the med
> > blue one , and it's $4x worth of shiny, easily scratched coloured
> > plastic shell which clips over the top of the machine - never again.
> > Might as well stick with the aluminium coloured normal shell - oh well,
> > one lives and learns.
> >   
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