Somehow I have become tech support

[rhyll]

Two questions:
* Can anyone recommend a half-decent laptop (brand/model) for under AU$1500? Dr. C has agreed to me helping her to purchase a laptop and set it up with Ubuntu (hurrah!) All it really needs to do is word processing, etc, play music, and must be able to burn CDs.
* Does anyone else use Doteasy for their website hosting? I am using their free, training-wheels-on service to lower 'barriers to participation' for the Think Tank. BUT! how do you create a page without it showing up on the sidebar? I would be surprised and delighted if anyone here has come upon the same issue. Seriously, this is driving me crazy. I have had actual dreams about it, which is in a way pleasant because it's displacing the thesis-related-night-terrors.

Comments

[conradin.livejournal.com]

ahaha, never admit to IT knowledge, and certainly don't help anyone buy a laptop unless you are prepare to be doing a fair amount of support :P I'm slightly reticent about handing out the new business cards, as they reveal I work in IT. (Now is the time you say "Oh, you can tell that by looking at you!")

Do you want a full sized laptop, or are you looking at things like eeepcs?

Soft spot for Toshibas, loath HPs, ASUS seem to be pretty solid and Sony seem nice if expensive. All this is pretty much based on random gut feeling/non-representative samples however :)

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't mind doing support too much, as long as people are willing to try at least a little to work things out themselves. Mind you, not working in IT means I'm not usually already sick of saying 'have you tried turning it off and then on again?'. It also means I'm not necessarily that good at support.

I suspect she wants a full-sized laptop rather than a netbook. Your gut-feelings are a good place to start!

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

Also, I had a dream about you last night. You were going out with the queen of faerie, and I was trying to convince you that it was a really bad idea to eat the lollies that she sent you.

[conradin.livejournal.com]

Hmm, torn between asking if the faerie queen was good looking, and what type of sweets they were. Good to have a date though :)

I have remembered to bring in the player, so it is sitting on my desk. We should catch up sometime!

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

We should! If you feel like daytime catchups just ring my office (3625), otherwise maybe next week sometime?