Just spotted this! Sorry! Crisis is now over and all the german exchange
students are back home ... leaving an epidemic of swine flu through the
school with 350 pupils off!!
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 08:49 +0100, Themos Tsikas wrote:
> I have a Netgear WG111
> http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_networkadaptor_wg111.php
> that I can live without for a week. I don't know if Ubuntu 9.04 can use it
> though. Get in touch
>
> Themos Tsikas
>
>
> On Thursday 01 October 2009 23:16:22 M.Blackmore wrote:
> > I'm being kicked out of my study and to save drilling a hole through
> > various walls and running want to borrow a network card or usb dongle
> > known to work under Ubuntu 9.04 so I can set up temporarily in the
> > bedroom! (My daughter's school is doing an exchange trip with a German
> > school and we are hosting one girl).
> >
> > Anyone got anything I can have for the week to be able to work from the
> > bedroom?
> >
> > Wish I had a nice laptop now :-( Old 5 yr old Dell has malfunctioned ...
> > But strapped for cash for something decent - 2 core 2-3ghz 15" min spec
> > to match the Shuttle box ... its gonna be used around the house rather
> > than on the road - on a tray I put a mouse on 'cos can't stand
> > trackpads).
> >
> > Incidentally are 17" "laptops" actually "lappable" or are they just too
> > darn big to put on an A3 drawing board with fittles nailed around the
> > edge which I put on my knees on the orthopaedic recliner? I find that
> > sitting at desks is painful for my twice broken back and I am limited in
> > my time online as a result. Keep on having to go onto the back roller
> > machine every 15 minutes to keep the nerves in my left fingers still
> > communicating with the brain, they get trapped. Damn lucky I'm not
> > tetraplegic in a chair or an iron lung last 35 years.
> >
> > There are some very cheap recon/2nd hand 17" desktop replacements on the
> > market with high spec Nvidia cards and so forth and its sooooo
> > tempting... but don't want to end up with a monster I can't put on my
> > improvised laptop "desk"!
> >
> >
> >
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