EEE!

[dvandom]

Someone in my building has an unsecured wireless connection. :) Posting this from my EEE in my kitchen. Still getting used to the small keyboard, and I don't like the "tap to click" touchpad, so I'm getting used to the thumb trackball I got. I think my main keyboard problems are the spacebar (shallow enough I don't always hit it) and backspace (I overshoot it and hit delete).

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[sweh.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with the buttons in front of the touch pad? Or is it that you are accidentally clicking when touching the pad? I don't recall if tap/click can be turned off or not.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

The button on front? It didn't seem to do anything...oh, now it works. Just sticky. :)

Any recommendations for a small SSH client? PuTTY is 1.2M zipped, not exactly a great idea for the EEE.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

The button on the front is actually two buttons; left/right click. If you press in the middle then it won't do much :-)

The EEE comes with openssh built in. Just open a terminal (IIRC, alt-control-T is a short cut to open a uxterm) and then "ssh user@remotehost". It's a real Linux system, and the default user is configured with sudo "ALL" privileges, so you can vi system files to reconfigure things as much as you like.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I was pressing the middle. And jarodrussell helped me find the terminal (alt-ctrl-T is it), and I poked around a bit.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I love the EEE! Unfortunately, I can't afford one right now having just spent $500 on a plane ticket for a grad course, so I've comforted myself with a Ubuntu Linux VM on my existing laptop. It's not the same, that little computer would be SO much easier to tote around! My Vostro's the magnesium frame business class thing, so it's rather over sized for what it does.

How well does the frame-based menu work for you? I haven't been able to get a copy of the EEE desktop manager to try out but I want it...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I'd rather a standard desktop, but finding Terminal helps a lot. :)

[sweh.livejournal.com]

http://forum.eeeuser.com/ contains links and useful stuff, including how to use a "real" window manager. Or even load your own Linux distro onto it!

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in it more to help some friends and family who are not very computer-savvy at all, who still want to do e-mail. At home I have my old Celeron D set up with two separate hard drives. The master is Ubuntu and the slave is XP. This works well for most of my stuff, the laptop has the afore-mentioned VM to get similar results. However, either of them are way beyond Grandma...the EEE might work for her though.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, looks pretty easy to use if you just want to do things like web, mail, typing documents. I'm just weird and crusty. ;)

Oh, and the EEE does get pretty warm after a few minutes.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

HAAAAAAATE!

EENNNVVVYY!

HHHIIISSSS!

yOU ARE SO COOL.

[not-croaker.livejournal.com]

Trackball? Little thumb trackball? Show please. Been looking for a good one for a while.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It's okay, a little jumpy. I got it from Amazon, this one (http://www.amazon.com/Fellowes-99928-Micro-Track-Silver/dp/B00006HRJR/).