A time…

April 1st, 2008 by timelady

…to every purpose under the heavens.

Well, I have been afk for a bit, because, well, I needed some downtime.

But, during said time, I got a new shiny!!!!

eeepc

Yes, my brother gave me the amazing gift of the gorgeous 4Gb Black eeePC. It rocks.

I plan to blog about my experiences with the new Hal. For yes, this little laptop has won my heart to the point where he is now my primary device. Welcome to Hal4500.

Things learnt so far:

eeeuser.com has the best tips, programs, guides, forums etc. A lot of links will come from there:)
Add more Xandros repositories. I also pinned the system, due to a few other odd repositories I added/will be adding.Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701 p701 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/en p701 main
deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4 main
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch
deb http://ftp.linux.hr/asuseee/xandros/ binary/
deb-src http://ftp.linux.hr/asuseee/xandros/ source/
Don’t forget the key for the main repo, but there is one that doesn’t have a key, ignore it griping.
Emeditor is easier than hand editing the menu. Trust me. I don’t mind using vim to do it, a lot of you will find the gui easier.
I added a Start menu. Also, Acrobat sucks, so removed it and added a better PDF Reader.
SDCards. Find the biggest you can for storage. SDHC is cheaper than SD atm. I am looking at 8Gb for about AU$70.00. Hint - camera shops have them cheaper than computer shops.
It is relatively simple to customise the webmail for using your Google App domain. Hint - change the link in Emeditor for Gmail, or add another one in.
Need a blogging tool. Drivel is basic, but no success posting yet. Want something I can use offline.
Update to OpenOffice2.3.
Using a number of extensions to give you more desktop realestate in Firefox is so worth it. Also, make it faster.
I added Gnomad2, for my Creative Zen Vision:M, but iPod users, especially later generation ones, should use gtkPod.
There is no Kshisen:( But Xshisen does at a pinch.