Universal docking station and Linux

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> Well, I thought about it. Yet it seems to me that putting the laptop
> in a docking station is much more comfortable than each time
> to connect a USB mouse and keyboard and connect an HDMI/DVI cable.

I would think so too, but the one you should looked like a VGA plug on  
a box. You either had to mash the box against the computer (in my case  
the side) or run a cable. Then you had to connect the USB cable.

That's why I suggested a hub. The short amount of time to plug in a  
video cable, usb cable for the hub (which already had a keyboard,  
mouse, sound system, etc) and plugging in ethernet may be worth it.

If you have wifi at work, you probably won't use ethernet anyway.  
802.11n is close to 100BASE-T in performance in a lightly loaded  
environment. If you want to make backups, it may be better to have USB  
hard drive in the hub already.

It all depends upon how much a "neat freak" you are, you could use a  
Wifi connection, a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and just have the DVI  
cable.

Bluetooth and Wifi interact, so it may not be the best choice. I found  
that I had trouble using both and ended up with a USB headset.

I use a netbook as my desktop and found I had cooling problems. I  
ended up with a SilverLine (from home center) cooling stand. My  
netbook kept sliding off into my lap, so I bolted two wooden cabinet  
knobs on the bottom to hold it up. They are slightly asymmetrical my  
netbook has a row of status LEDS and I had to offset it to keep the  
visible.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM