<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">It uses a thin piece of tin under the keyboard as a heatsink... the tinfoil made it better.<br>Daniel<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 9/17/09, Bob Jonkman <i><bjonkman@sobac.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com><br>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Asus EEE<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:52 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:46 -0700, Daniel Jolkowski wrote:<br><br>> I put some foil under the keyboard <br><br>What does that do, aside from keeping out alien mind rays?<br><br>--Bob<br><br><br>On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:46 -0700, Daniel Jolkowski wrote:<br>> I bought the EEE 701 - non surf it has a webcam and a bigger SSD when<br>> they first
came out. <br>> I promptly wiped the default distro and threw Archlinux onto it. They<br>> have a pretty strong community based around the asus eee and the<br>> custom kernel boots in 8 seconds or something ridiculous like that.<br>> It also covers the networking and custom keys and all that so you<br>> don't have to do much of anything beside boot this kernel.<br>> <br>> I started to notice X crashing a lot with no real errors and firefox<br>> and other apps 'big' apps seg faulting. I thought this was odd as I<br>> was generally using apps found in Xandros. Reinstalled Xandros and<br>> its flakey as well.<br>> <br>> I've never really figured out if this is my EEE, a bad stick or ram or<br>> Arch. No one else on the list complains. I put some foil under the<br>> keyboard and have /home and the firefox cache on a ramdisk and it<br>> helps but I still don't feel
like its trustworthy.<br>> <br>> Assuming its just my EEE and not Arch (mostly because no one else is<br>> complaining about the things I complain about) archlinux is really<br>> easy to install and the kernel is optimized for the hardware - and<br>> updatable via pacman so easy to maintain.<br>> <br>> Daniel<br>> <br>> --- On Wed, 9/16/09, Insurance Squared Inc.<br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com" href="/mc/compose?to=gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> From: Insurance Squared Inc. <<a ymailto="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com" href="/mc/compose?to=gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>><br>> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Asus EEE<br>> To: "KWLUG
discussion" <<a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 2:43 PM<br>> <br>> My Asus EEE 900A just came in (this is the one that Chris<br>> posted to the list a few weeks ago). And my wife loves it.<br>> The simplified desktop system she's finding great - said it<br>> was like the Mac's she's seen. So I've finally got another<br>> linux convert :).<br>> <br>> Two questions for those on the list familiar with this<br>> netbook.
First, is it a good idea to wipe out the distro that<br>> came loaded and install something else (maybe save on some<br>> space?). Secondly,the machine came with a 4gig solid state<br>> drive that's at like 90% capacity out of the box. Can<br>> you/would you upgrade that? Or just drop a 16gig SD card into<br>> it?<br>> <br>> Any other tips for setting one of these things up?<br>> <br>> g.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>
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