eeePC Tips

eeepc The 4Gb Black eeePC 701. It rocks.

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  using a Kingston 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.
  • Using a number of extensions to give you more desktop realestate in Firefox is so worth it. Also, make it faster.
  • A great review of ScribeFire, my blogging tool of choice. Especially on the eeePC this extension to Firefox is feature rich and highly customisable. I have used on FF2, and now on the FF3beta5 I am running on the eee at the moment:) My blog is a Wordpress blog, hosted on Dreamhost.
  • I added Gnomad2, for my Creative Zen Vision:M, but iPod users, especially later generation ones, should use gtkPod.