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On 02/02/2009 10:23, Paul Sutton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 01/02/2009 23:18, Julian Hall wrote: >> >>> Thanks Rob and Richard. I couldn't actually find it in the LUG archive, >>> but I then found it looking through my own mail (I tend to keep LUG mail >>> about three months). >>> >>> A bit convoluted, but the netbook I saw belonged to a friend of *my* >>> friend who had said he would see if anything better could be done with it. >>> >>> I've now replied telling my mate to suggest the owner tries to swap it >>> for something else - however it was an Xmas present from his wife so not >>> sure how well that would go down with her. >>> >>> >>> >> Ahh yeah that could possibly be a problem. We technically he could use >> it for internet access, just probably not for sites bogged down with Flash. >> >> Rob >> >> >> > Isn't the elonex one partly aimed at education, its a shame that if its > as bad as you say it is, then it will give a bad impression of Linux to > the very people who would benefit the most, todays youngsters who could > do with the one computer per child idea being a reality. > > if it can't run flash it makes it pretty useless for education given > that a lot of sites are flash driven, > > Paul > I wouldn't have thought they'd be pushing these things out to educational establishments, they'd probably be selling a complete Windows based package. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html