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Please help me decide which of these 4 laptops is the best?

On March 15, 2011, in Laptop, by T-MAN

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Which of these 4 notebooks sold at Newegg would be the best deal? Click or copy-paste the URL below to see a comparison table of the 4 laptops.

If the URL does not work for some reason, just go to PCs & Laptops > Laptops/Notebooks > Guided Search > Graphic Type: Dedicated Card and then check the following notebooks and click COMPARE:

MSI GX710-280
Acer Aspire AS6930-6942
MSI GX630-028US
Acer Aspire AS6930-6560

**Select the best one in your opinion and delight tell why it would be such a fantastic deal, considering all the listed info/specs for each, as well as the promos like free shipping**

Thanks in advance!

URL:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2034940032%201292318470&bop=And&CompareItemList=N82E16834152090%2CN82E16834115506%2CN82E16834115539%2CN82E16834152073

Thanks Jon for the info/answer. Anyhow, I’m going to use it for basic computer treatment, gaming and some jobs that require the services of a excellent graphic card. I plot to use it both at home and on the go.

I was asking which would be the best deal for its price and specs (as a whole laptop). I narrowed it via the dedicated graphics factor, and limited myself to notebooks with class 2 graphic cards (according to notebookreview.com) that has the cheapest prices, while avoiding HP because of my terrible history with the quality of their harvest. I can live with some of the downsides, ie 250gb hard drive only or no bluetooth.

I have already done spec-by-spec comparison so no need to go there. But, when I compared them spec-by-spec, each of them have different upsides and downsides against each other. In small, all of them seem equal to me and that’s why I’m having distress deciding.

Notebookcheck Graphic Card Comparison URL: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic-Cards.130.0.html

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Answer by Jon
Okay, thanks for updating question.

Now that you have narrowed down what your choices i can safely say that your best two options will be the MSI GX 710 and the Acer Aspire … 6942 laptops based on primarily price and quality. Now, the only difference between the two is more or less the processor which differs by .20 Ghz.

To make your choice, you will need to question yourself one final question: Do you want a marginally quicker computer with slightly worse graphics which is cheap OR a laptop 0 more which has brilliant graphics and has more or less all the qualities then the quicker computer bar the Hard Drive.

Personally, i would go for the cheapest option available because the only down side to it is really the graphics which aren’t very terrible anyhow. But if you want to be sure of excellent graphics, pick the Acer Aspire rather then the MSI GX710 because its guarenteed to have fantastic graphics (i’m on a macbook which has the same graphics).

But is the superfluous 0 worth it? 0 more will lose: 70 gigs of Hard Drive (You said you didn’t care, i woudn’t any), a slightly better screen (you didn’t specify again about screen size, although it really won’t make a difference) and a guarentee of a webcam (the webcam on the Acer doesn’t state how many MP, although i’m guessing at least 1.3) (Oh and .20 of a Ghz of speed)

On the up side, the 0 upgrade gives you better audio/microphone, more USB ports, better modem, secured knowledge of brilliant RAM, better CPU Cache and a excellent graphics card.

If you anaylse the excellent and bads of the Acer over the MSI you can clearly see the Acer has far better qualities with the only really vital downside being the .20 Ghz and the Hard Drive which you don’t care about.

My Opinion: The Acer Aspire AS6930-6942 is your best bet when comparing all four. The other two notebooks have the same qualities as the Acer Aspire and are more expensive.

P.S. I wouldn’t go for any of those notebooks anyhow. A Macbook or Vaio are a lot better but cost a lot more.

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Installing and Configuring Bacula Client 5.0.2 on a Centos 5.4 machine

On August 29, 2010, in backup recovery, by T-MAN

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For the instalation of the Bacula Server, delight refer to THIS post.
DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL BACULA
Download bacula and extract it :

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/bacula/5.0.2/bacula-5.0.2.tar.gz/download

tar -zxf bacula-5.0.2.tar.gz

cd bacula-5.0.2

Configure Bacula for compiling :

CFLAGS="-g -Wall" \

./configure \

--sbindir=/usr/share/bacula/bin \

--sysconfdir=/usr/share/bacula/etc \

--with-pid-dir=/usr/share/bacula/bin/working \

--with-subsys-dir=/usr/share/bacula/bin/working \

--with-working-dir=/usr/share/bacula/bin/working \

--enable-client-only

Compile and install bacula :

make

make install

CONFIGURE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC STARTUP
Copy the start-stop speech from /usr/share/bacula/bin to /etc/init.d

cp /usr/share/bacula/bin/bacula /etc/init.d

cp /usr/share/bacula/bin/bacula-fd /etc/init.d

Modify the bacula startup speech(/etc/init.d/bacula) , adding this line at the top (so the bacula init speech is chkconfig compatible) :
# chkconfig: - 87 26

NOTE : The speech modified need to be something like this
#! /bin/sh # chkconfig: - 87 26 # # bacula This shell speech takes care of starting and stopping # the bacula daemons. # # This is pretty much watered down version of the RedHat speech # that works on Solaris as well as Linux, but it won't work everywhere. # # description: It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers.

Run the following command :
chkconfig bacula on service bacula start
CONFIGURE THE FIREWALL
Configure the firewall to permit access to webmin server (suppose the defaulting config with https port on 10000) by editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables config file. Add a line like this before the REJECT line :
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 9102 -j ACCEPT
Restart the firewall
service iptables restart
CONFIGURE BACULA
Go to /usr/share/bacula/etc and edit (vi) bacula-fd.conf
Find the first entry Director and then, after the Name directive, place an Address directive with the IP of the bacula server or with the fqdn of bacula server
Address = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
or
Address = fully.qualified.domain.name
Comment out the second Director entry, leave the FileDaemon unchanged
Modify the Messages section to top to the bacula server.
#director = bacula-client.yyyyyy.it-dir = all, !skipped, !restored director = bacula-srv.yyyyyy.it-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
This is an example of the bacula-fd configure speech working :
# # Defaulting Bacula File Daemon Configuration file # # For Bacula release 5.0.2 (28 April 2010) -- redhat # # There is not much to exchange here except perhaps the # File daemon Name to #
#
# List Directors who are permitted to contact this File daemon
#
Director {
Name = bacula-srv.xxxxx.it-dir
Address = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Password = “RANDOM PASSWORD”
}
#
# “Global” File daemon configuration specifications
#
FileDaemon { # this is me
Name = bacula-client.xxxxxx.it-fd
FDport = 9102 # where we listen for the director
WorkingDirectory = /usr/share/bacula/bin/working
Pid Directory = /usr/share/bacula/bin/working
Most Concurrent Jobs = 20
}
# Send all messages except skipped files back to Director
Messages {
Name = Standard
director = bacula-srv.xxxxxx.it-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
}

CONFIGURE THE BACULA SERVER WITH bacula-dir.conf
Now, we need to check in the bacula server the classification of the Storage space Device.
Look at the Address directive … exchange it from localhost to the ip address of the NIC (or the fqdn of the server)
Address = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
or
Address = fully.qualified.domain.name
ADDING A CLIENT ON THE BACULA SERVER
Restart the bacula both on Server and Client machine
service bacula restart
Via WebMin, add a new backup client, delight make sure to use the password in the bacula-fd.conf file of the client.

REFERENCES
http://www.crippaandrea.it/?p=771

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