Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:42:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions? Message-ID: <20090621194200.GC63029@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4A3E879F.6020708@hdk5.net> References: <20090621055235.GA60649@thought.org> <4A3E879F.6020708@hdk5.net>
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this > >is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. > > > >i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and > >lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones > >work best with our flavor of BSD. turns out that sometimes things-ubuntu > >fail, and i need something failsafe and with a keyboard. i'll explain > >later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the > >kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer that > >would be accessible to a great many people. instead of the $8-9 kilobuck > >windose devs. > > > > > >anybody know? > > > ############ > > > Aloha Gary, > > Agree that that any Ubunto OS is bad on notebooks. I have an HP Mini > 1000 that I have network issues with because Ubunto barfs up any static > network settings. > > HP Tech Support gave me advice to replace it with FreeBSD 7.2. Try it > from a flash drive first to test everything then replace the Ubunto. > > I hear some people on the list have FreeBSD on Asus Eee net books and it > is working well. > aloha! is there a particular url[s], or should i just google? lots of miscellaneous questions that the websites may be able to answer. gary > -- > > ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 > + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + > + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + > < email: noc@hdk5.net > > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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