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[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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[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.