[lubuntu-users] Activating a swap partition

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 22:16, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Liam,
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> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 20:59, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> FWIW, it takes up to 2GB...
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>> http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/toshiba-nb250-107/
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>> ... and you can probably pick up a 2GB SO-DIMM for peanuts. E.g. £1.50 from CEX:
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>> https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=2gb%20ddr3
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> I had a dig around and found a 2GiB SO-DIMM, fitted it this evening - and ran memtest86+ with no errors.

Great stuff! I have upgraded a couple of old netbooks this way. They
were usually not very fussy about RAM, as the Atom was quite a
low-performance CPU and the chipset is similarly not high-end. E.g. no
RAM interleaving or anything.

> Did some testing of LibreOffice. Basically, it is a Java problem. If I go to Tools -> Advanced in, say, LibreOffice Calc, I can disable the use of a JDK and once that it set, LibreOffice Writer starts working again.

Some bits of LO and OpenOffice before it were written in Java. Not
much -- e.g. some import/export filters.

You could install a JVM -- the FOSS IcedTea runtime is in the Ubuntu
repos. It won't take a lot of space and will enable a few more things
to work. I use some Java text editors myself, for instance.

I think if you do:

sudo apt install icedtea-web

... that should pull in the current IcedTea JVM. Then you can check with:

java -version

... at a shell prompt.

> Thanks for the CEX tip. Looked at the website and it was very interesting.

I've sold quite a lot of old kit to CEX over the years: many old
mobile phones, routers, stuff like that. I took payment in vouchers
and it enabled me to max out the RAM on a few computers, put a
max-capacity MMC card in my smartphone, buy original copy of Mac OS X
10.6 Snow Leopard which I ran both on a real Mac mini and on a
Hackintosh I built, and finally contributed towards an old iPad 2 for
my mum, which she liked a lot. Later I got her an iPad 3 from them,
and the iPad 2 went to a family friend who's still using it some years
later.

They're a very useful company. There are a few international branches, too.

Disclaimer -- the 3 co-founders were personal friends of mine, and I
worked there for all of a week in about 1996.

But sadly they 2 co-owners are both dead now, and I have no connection
at all with the company any more. The third, Charlie Brooker, who did
all their original branding, advertising and so on, is now a famous TV
writer (Black Mirror, etc.) and no longer associates with his old
mates at all. :-(

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