scott wrote:
>> Give you mom Ubuntu and she'll never ever touch a command-line, except 
>> for running "pppoeconf" and providing ADSL login and password on 
>> installation.
> 
> She has a wireless router/modem that I set up for her downstairs - so it 
> would just be a case of configuring the wireless USB stick to pick up an 
> IP address with DHCP .... is that easy?
> 
> 

I don't have a wireless router/modem to be sure, but you can test for 
yourself.  As I said, Ubuntu LiveCD (and most others) lets you try the 
whole distribution by running it from memory before/if you decide to 
install it to disk.  You can test its DHCP features, NTFS reading of 
partitions (no writing in the LiveCD) and whatever.

Just be warned that the whole install probably requires a connection so 
that it can download and update security packages from the repositories. 
  It's a good thing too to download a few other things, like proprietary 
media codecs.

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Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:

>>
>> Parallel world again!
>>
>>  From ebuyer, prices in GBP including VAT:
>>
>> Home Basic 54
>> Home Premium 60
>> Business 82
>> Ultimate 106
> 
> Damn, that's come down a bit...
> 

those prices are thanks to Linux leveling the field. :)

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scott wrote:

> 
> Parallel world again!
> 
>  From ebuyer, prices in GBP including VAT:
> 
> Home Basic 54
> Home Premium 60
> Business 82
> Ultimate 106
> 
> That's for the 32 bit versions, the 64 bit versions are almost exactly 
> the same price.
> 
> 

He must have been talking about the entire Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master 
Collection. US$2499

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And lo on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:49:23 -0000, scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> did  
spake, saying:

>> Well I don't live in America, do I? :-P
>
> Didn't they take over Asda in the UK?

Yes, but kept the name and didn't exactly shout about it on prime-time.

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And lo on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41:20 -0000, scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> did  
spake, saying:


>
> Parallel world again!
>
> From ebuyer, prices in GBP including VAT:
>
> Home Basic 54
> Home Premium 60
> Business 82
> Ultimate 106
>
> That's for the 32 bit versions, the 64 bit versions are almost exactly  
> the same price.

 From Amazon the non-OEM non-upgrade 32-bit versions






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> Presumably I can run OpenOffice instead though?

AFAIK, OpenOffice requires you to install X on Mac, like on any Unix. 
You could instead try NeoOffice, which runs "natively".

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And lo on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:06:36 -0000, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> You're right. It isn't. FF is the number one sucker-up-of-useless-memory
>> -and-cycles on my machines.
>
>   Yes, everything not made by Microsoft is by definition bad, horrid,
> heavy, a memory-hog and a CPU-hog. Everything made by Microsoft is
> just perfect.
>
>   You must have a different version of Firefox, as mine is taking 0%
> of CPU time right now.

Let's put it this way for me I'm looking at a blank minimised Firefox  
(2.0.0.12) taking up 8 threads and a steady 3% of my CPU, I'm typing this  
in Opera (9.25.8887) with five tabs open and 5 threads; it blips between  
0.4% and 2% with the occasional blip up to 20% when it's picking up  
messages or switching tabs. According to AIDA Firefox is using 19316KB and  
Opera 15644KB.

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Presumably I can run OpenOffice instead though?
> 
> AFAIK, OpenOffice requires you to install X on Mac, like on any Unix.

Ah. Yes, I think I recall hearing this...

> You could instead try NeoOffice, which runs "natively".

Mmm, OK.

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> Let's put it this way for me I'm looking at a blank minimised Firefox 
> (2.0.0.12) taking up 8 threads and a steady 3% of my CPU, I'm typing this 
> in Opera (9.25.8887) with five tabs open and 5 threads; it blips between 
> 0.4% and 2% with the occasional blip up to 20% when it's picking up 
> messages or switching tabs. According to AIDA Firefox is using 19316KB and 
> Opera 15644KB.

I was just reading a page explaining that some memory leaks in Firefox 1.5 
were actually a feature 
(http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html) when Firefox 
crashed. Now THAT's censorship :D

Or perhaps it didn't like my investigation about trends in Indonesia's 
poultry production, who knows.

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Gilles Tran wrote:

> I was just reading a page explaining that some memory leaks in Firefox 1.5 
> were actually a feature 
> (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html) when Firefox 
> crashed. Now THAT's censorship :D

Woah.

That's almost like the time I went to download Firefox at work. I typed 
in "www.mozilla.com", and IE displays this big sign that says

"Internet Explorer 7.0 - WE HAVE HEARD YOU!"

Damn that was scary! It turns out that the default configuration of 
Micro$oft ISA redirects the domain mozilla.com to Micro$oft's IE7 advert 
page. (Oh, that's cute!) I deleted the redirection and after that it 
worked fine. But DAMN... o_O

> Or perhaps it didn't like my investigation about trends in Indonesia's 
> poultry production, who knows.

Yeah, could be...

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