[ILUG] laptops price update

Paul O'Malley ompaul at eircom.net
Thu Aug 28 21:00:49 IST 2008


John Allen wrote:
> Paul O'Malley wrote:
>> John Allen wrote:
>>> Paul O'Malley wrote:
>>>> I just got a phone call asking me to inform you those laptops (acer) 
>>>> are
>>>> down to
>>>> 269 until Sunday.
>>>> does one of these get you a pint next week?
>>>> first laptop I see running GNU/Linux when I walk into the pub gets 
>>>> the pint!
>>>>   
>>> Does that apply to any laptop?, or only these mini ones?
>>>> Its owner may hijack the aforementioned pint!
>> Hi John,
>>
>> always with the hard question!
>>
>> hmmmmm, I was thinking about this after the person who inspired my 
>> question earlier asked about what qualified as a laptop.
>>
>> I am going to change it a bit, because I can (after all I am the judge 
>> jury and organiser of this ;-)).
>>
>> If I can type uname -a on an input device and I can read an output 
>> that looks to me like the linux program is running there, then hey 
>> that is the pint winner.
>>
>> However to make the game a little harder.
>> The device must be upstairs!
>>
> Ok, so what time are you arriving at Paul?
>> Two classes of entry:
>> handheld device
>> mini laptop/notebook/ full on laptop
>> (one pint in each class)
>>
>> Regards
>> Paul
>>
>>
> 
after 6:30pm before 7:05pm



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