- Baby laptop

- Converting between Psion Data and Contacts

- Re: Yet Another EEE PC User

- RE: The Digest V1 # 1212_1

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Date: 7 Apr 2008 16:54:04 +0100
From: John Wetton <address truncated>
Subject: Baby laptop

Hi Folks,

While not a palmtop computer, I am now using a Belinea S.Book 1. This is a
great mini laptop, with 7" colour touch screen, 80 GB hardrive, full
keyboard and runs Windows XP with 1GB RAM and 1.2GHz processor.

It has bluetooth and WiFi built in along with a card reader slot, bluetooth
skype phone and USB2 ports.

I can recommend it to anyone who is looking for a small form factor laptop.

Now the other reason for writing in - do any of you have the settings needed
for a PAYG dial up account with Virgin.net, particularly the geographic
number, rather than the 0845 one they try to give out?

I need to set the account up on the laptop so that I can dial in every now
and then to keep the account active, just needed to keep an email address
alive.

Cheers,

John Wetton

Date: 7 Apr 2008 21:10:25 +0100
From: John Spillett <address truncated>
Subject: Converting between Psion Data and Contacts

The sites for the programs used seem to be a bit up and down so I am happy to email copies to anyone who has difficulties.

Regards

John.

Date: 10 Apr 2008 17:13:10 +0100
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Yet Another EEE PC User

Ajai and All Others (and my stepson Rob),

I am currently happily using my MBook and 5mx's and marginally happy using my Tungston.

The Asus eee is catching my eye these days as a supplement and eventual replacement for my Psions.

I am looking at the new 8 gb and am telling myself that as the limited memory of my Psions presents no problem, I could get by with the 2 gig eee though I will probably hit the middle ground and buy the 4.

If I do go with the 2 or 4 am I going to be kicking myself down the road?

I am not a developer.  I am a heavy Word Processor user being a poet & small press publisher - hundreds of very small word files with final
work being done in Publisher on a desktop.

I use WP, Data, Contacts, VReader5, Sheet, and was using Web and EMail until yet one more protocol change at earthlink broke my patience (I reconfigured from 56 kb to wideband with WiFi).  I use the Tungsten
with home WiFi for portable email.

With my limited use (no fancy wiz-bang apps), can I be happy with 2 gb
or 4 gb of memory?  I anticipate using the eee for web access &
accessing my GMail email on the fly.

Another question.  If I go with Linux (my step son has been telling me for years to switch over on my desktops) and stay with Windows on my desktops, am I going to have a compatibility problem for backups and updates?

Baseline is I am happy with everything about my MBook except its
slowly becoming an orphan machine and this tells me that any eee I
choose will have more memory than I will ever use (I am at 69% memory used and use flash memory only for back-up and easy transferring of
files to the 5mx).

Comments from eee users please?  (Ajai???)

tia,

jim

Date: 10 Apr 2008 23:51:48 +0100
From: Elizabeth Baker <address truncated>
Subject: RE: The Digest V1 # 1212_1

To: Ajai Khattri
Subject: eee PC

I have been looking at the eee PC in stores, and, though I love the size
and the lightweight design, have found it somewhat puzzling. For example, I
have not been able to use GoToMy PC on it to access my office computer, and
I've been told variously, by different sales people at different times, and
even by the tech support people at Asus, that it's (1.) because of Linux,
or (2.) because of Firefox, or (3.) that there's something wrong, it should
work!

Since my office PC is running Windows XP Pro, I'm wondering whether I
should wait for an eee PC that will run that program, thus making the eee
PC compatible with my office system. But then, the tech support people at
Asus tell me that Windows XP (1.) is available on the eee PC in Asia, or
(2.) is not, and that (depending on who I'm speaking to) it either (1.)
will soon or (2.) will never be available in the US. I'm wondering if you,
or anyone reading this, might have any ideas or solid information about
this!

And just one more question -- can you run Psion files on Linux? Can you put
PsiWin on the eee PC? I'm still totally dependent on my Psion Agenda & Data
files, & have several Psion machines which I hope will last until something
compatible with Psion comes along. Would welcome info on this very much!

Many thanks in advance,
Betsy Baker (in New York, where the eee PC is available in 8 gig, & selling
very well.)

Original Message:
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From: The Digest<address truncated>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:48:01 +0800
To:<address truncated>
Subject: The Digest V1 # 1212_1

Date: 3 Apr 2008 21:02:50 +0700
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Yet Another EEE PC User

Ive finally joined the EEE PC club.

I just took delivery of a new EEE PC (white) 8G model today (8Gb
drive, 1Gb RAM). The built-in Linux OS is cute and easy to use but Im
not a big fan of Xandros (or Linspire or the many other small distros
that always seem to be offered with these budget devices). The machine
is much smaller than I thought (Im not complaining though believe me
:-) Its probably the lightest laptop I have ever seen / used.

There is a lightweight version of Ubuntu called Xubuntu which I like
and even better there is a EEE PC specific variant called eeexubuntu
which I downloaded. Basically booting a PC with that CD and then
running a script allowed me to put the install image on a bootable USB
stick (Sony 1Gb) which was plugged into the desktop machine.

After creating this "boot disk", putting this into the EEE PC and
selecting it as a boot drive worked first time. The desktop came up
and I went through the stock installation procedure. After another
reboot Im now running Xubuntu from the internal 8Gb drive (total
install is 1.4Gb so there's plenty of space left).

So now I have a full Linux desktop running. There is a wiki on the
eeeuser.com site with tweaks and customization hints which I have yet
to work through but basically Im pretty impressed with this little
machine.

My goal is to use it as a mobile development machine so Im probably
going to be installing web servers, databases and programming
languages on it. The basic install includes many useful applications
such as Firefox, Abiword, etc.

Ill post more when Ive had more time to play with it.

--
Aj.

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Date: 12 Apr 2008 15:25:42 +0100
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: no subject

Ajai,

I've decided to go for broke and but the 8gig eee.  There is one negative review on Amazon saying the keyboard is too small for typing.

I type quite well on my 5mx and Malay book and had no trouble with the Revo (I'm typing this on a foldup keyboard with my Tungsten).  I would expect
the eee to come in between the 5mx and the MBook.  What's your take on the keyboard?

I have sent another long list of questions to the list but have decided to get the eee 8 in any case - just worried a bit about the comment on the keyboard.

Looking foerward to your eventual in-depth comments as you shake out your unit.  Have decided to stick with Linux (golden opportunity to learn Linux) so have checked out the site you mention and am saving your upgrade notes
to upgrade the Linux op system.

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 14 Apr 2008 01:53:57 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: nConvert

I can't convert a Data file using nConvert. Every time I try, I get a message in the upper right-hand corner that says "This file cannot be converted." I've tried re-installing the app - no go.

Anyone know what's wrong?

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

Thought For The Day: Expecting success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

Date: 14 Apr 2008 02:12:46 +0100
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Re: your mail

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jim Watson-Gove wrote:

> I've decided to go for broke and but the 8gig eee.  There is one negative > review on Amazon saying the keyboard is too small for typing.

I saw that review and thought it was silly - did the person who wrote that think they were buying a 'normal' machine?

It is a small machine with a small keyboard and will take some adjustment to get used to it but its not difficult. (I should point out that I dont touchtype so my experience may be different from others).

> I type quite well on my 5mx and Malay book and had no trouble with the Revo > (I'm typing this on a foldup keyboard with my Tungsten).  I would expect
> the eee to come in between the 5mx and the MBook.  What's your take on the > keyboard?

Yes that sounds about right but the keys aren't as big as the mbook - this
is because the eee has more keys than an S7/netbook/mbook.

> I have sent another long list of questions to the list but have decided to > get the eee 8 in any case - just worried a bit about the comment on the
> keyboard.
>
> Looking foerward to your eventual in-depth comments as you shake out your
> unit.  Have decided to stick with Linux (golden opportunity to learn Linux) > so have checked out the site you mention and am saving your upgrade notes
> to upgrade the Linux op system.

You may want to enable the advanced mode and play with it first before changing anything. Im a developer and so Im using the eee as a mobile devlopment workstation. This is why I wiped the drive and put eeexubuntu
on it (I wanted to run things like MySQL and PHP which most users dont
care about).

--
Aj.