Oolite Bulletins

thanks v much Getafix i had a look for nVidia gfx - ouch they are not cheap! Closest I could find was £280 above my budget - that's a few pairs of shoes too many. I will still have my desktop for Oolite 2 so no worries there :D i will definitely take an image of Win7 - no point wasting it. I use clo...

fair enough. I will probably take an image of the un-messed with hdd. 'cos when I start faffing with linux, Win 7 will undoubtedly break quite rapidly...

Farcebook - not my cup of tea, personally. Several hundred million people disagree, but nobody's perfect.

thanks all @L_W - that starts to make sense :) And as Core i3 is x64, I have both bases covered. @ahruman - not sure what to add to your comments, but I do feel a general sense of comfort that you are in a position to apply your seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge to the Oolite project. @Thargoid - +1...

ah cool. good things to those who wait and all that. Thx for your view. I'm wondering if the friendly penguin with the oolite logo on his chest will make an appearance? huh! - well spotted with the number pad. didn't even see that blip on my scanner. Reading the blurb, it does say 'full-size keyboar...

that's what I thought too. The Novatech also has a slightly faster processor than the HP. I have not really heard of this outfit before, so that is causing me a little pause for thought. I have now come across a Toshiba (another big 'brand') for £30 above my budget which has 4gb and a slightly faste...

thanks Lone_Wolf

for an extra £20, I can u/g the Novatech from 2gb to 4gb ram.

Would the '3.25gb' useable ram be irrelevant for this laptop, then?

cheers

I am in the market for a new laptop, and want to experiment / learn linux on it. I have a modest budget, but want to make sure I can run Oolite ok. Would appreciate any pointers re flavour of linux, and hardware specs/linux compatability: I am thinking Linux Mint 10 for the os - seems quite noob-fri...

a hamlet called Chesham - only about 30 miles outside London - recorded a low temp of minus 19 Celsius. That's gotta be some sort of record.

If I do splash out on some winter tyres for next year, I will avoid the Toyo Proxies

anybody invested in a set of winter tyres?

3 years in a row now, 'proper' winter conditions in the UK is making me think it might be worthwhile.

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looks fantastic

as a trader, I really appreciate the extra 5TC capacity on the trader variant

and swish HUD too

does it get much better?

El Viejo wrote:

...and suggesting a different font.

LOL - don't you mean font colour?

for future reference, black font colour is easier to pass off as a work-related document - blue tends to require liberal use of alt+tab

verrry cool.

Especially like the wire-frame cobra on a stand.

Tempted!

When i first got my hands on elite i was doing this with a pencil and a ruler and a piece of a4.

really enjoyed this. Top notch. As well as the plot and style, the thing i appreciate most is how you weave the story so closely into the warp and weft of the planets regions and galaxies. Increases my 'wonderment' factor for when i'm zipping around the eight - what tales lie just off the scanner. S...

if you're meaning the lloyds of london station, i'll join you two there and we can boost over together .

less stress on my nav-comp