- RE: eeepc

- Re: eee pc & cell phone & 5mx

- RE: OK to send eee questions to EPOC digest?

- Re: eee pc

- Re: eeepc

- RE: The Digest V1 # 1215 (13)

- Re: EPOC digest #1215

- Ref: writing to SD / things that I miss from the netBook

Date: 21 Apr 2008 18:59:48 +0000
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: RE: eeepc

Hi Jim,
I am using a Kingston 8gb card and its no problem at all. My eeepc recognized it right away. Not sure if your card is compatible or not. I am sure you know but it has to be a SDHC card.  It also recognized my 100gb portable hard drive and my 4gb thumb drive. 
This isn't much help but might be something you can look in to.
Thanks,
Bobbyr

Date: 21 Apr 2008 19:39:31 +0000
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Re: eee pc & cell phone & 5mx

>  For all of eeepc folks, if we have good web sites why don't we put them on the Digest so that others can also find them and they might be helpful to others.
>  Thanks,
>  Bob

This one is a good one:

eeeUser.co.

>  I bought a 8 gig Transcend SDHC card and even though I can see it on the file manager, when I go to access  it I get the message "You do not have enough permissions to read Home/User/MMC-SD."

No longer a problem.

Went up on the eee forum and was led to a number of postings that
solved the problem.  Had to learn what a WiKi is and how to open a
terminal and what code to type in but all is well now.  I can now move
files to and from the desktop with USB card or SSD

>  Sorry for this rant - I'm not sure whether it says more about me (getting older, less adaptable, more easily frustrated, &amp; more
>  forgetful) or about the march of so-called progress!<br
>  <br
>  I'm seriously considering going back to a 5mx plus basic mobile phone, rather than trying to find the holy grail "convergent" PDA unit

I carry around a very small cell phone and despite the eee, a 5mx in
my pocket.  If I plan much text work away from home, I carry my MBook (being replaced by the eee).

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 21 Apr 2008 20:40:18 +0000
From: Alan R Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: OK to send eee questions to EPOC digest?

From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>

} I bought a 8 gig Transcend SDHC card and even though I can
} see it on the file manager, when I go to access  it I get the
} message "You do not have enough permissions to read Home/User/MMC-SD."

Jim I don't think that that size is supported by the eee.  But I may be wrong!

SD cards are different.

Unlike our CF cards, they don't have the disk controller on the card.
It's on the device.

So the max capacity is decided by the eee designer and not the user, as
is the case with EPOC.

I've bought one of these new DAB radios.  Apart from it's poor audio
quality, caused by the DAB specification, it's quite good.  But it
records to an SD card and 2GB is the max.

I almost bought larger ones and was most surprised at the small size
ability.

Alan.

Date: 21 Apr 2008 21:25:09 +0000
From: ktabic <address truncated>
Subject: Re: eee pc

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:31:24 +0100, the sky darkened, lightning flashed and the voice of The Digest spake thus:

> My only stumbling block is Publishing.  If I can provide digest page
> editing that produces camera ready copy (as does Publisher) in a Linux
> program, I can see myself changing platforms.  If not. I will have to
> retain at least one Windows workstation for my publishing activity (poetry books and two small press magazines).

I have never personally used this, but have you tried a program called scribus? It's generally hawked as the open source answer to publisher. Alternatively, try running publisher in either wine or crossover office.
Rod

Date: 22 Apr 2008 00:02:41 +0000
From: Ian Colvin <address truncated>
Subject: Re: eeepc

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the below. Perhaps I overemphasised the running down of the battery. It is not a problem if I switch off the unit, but putting it to sleep and leaving it unplugged did -- I thought -- result in the battery going down faster than I felt it should overnight. My expectations may have been unreasonably high. The Psion 7book that I have can be left well over a week, maybe as long as a month unplugged and it still has power.

I only tried it with the Eee once or twice. Now I plug the unit in or switch it off because I like to find it still charged when I need it.

The Register also commented on the power drain during sleep:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/page4.htmlso I don't think its just my unit.

Anyway, thanks for your comments.

The best website I can recommend for the EeePC is www.eeeuser.com but like others here I hope that we can continue to discuss it in this friendly forum too -- and particularly ways to use it to replace or complement the wonderful Psions many of us have or had.

All the best,
Ian

Date: 18 Apr 2008 01:39:17 +0100
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: RE: eeepc

Hi Ian,
I just have one comment. Do you have some thing running or some thing going on?  You talked about the battery running down.
I have my plugged  in right now but there have been many times that I haven't started it up for several days or more when not plugged in and it still has plenty power.  If its quite awhile the most I have ever seen in down was one of those little bars on the battery gage.  Its still had three left so  still quite a bit of charge left.

Date: 22 Apr 2008 00:29:49 +0000
From: Donald <address truncated>
Subject: RE: The Digest V1 # 1215 (13)

Bravo! All very well stated, Kit Byatt

I myself have been fustrated with all the attempts of trying to find a replacement for my netbook/5mx 's.
It's not that the ideas of todays units aren't good - just lacking in the simple!
Probably the most used program is the Psion's Data, Sheet, Agenda, ..... (well as I'm writing this I realize that all the programs are so pricelessly irreplaceable ......... I've just realize again...... That I'm truly suffering from Psionistes :)

All the todays units are great for kids that have small fingers and for people that haven't been infected by Psion.

The only thing that has kept me looking for a replacement was for better internet/email compatability .... that's really it!
but
I just can't do without all the flawless (syncing n copy anywhere) operation of my Psion (netbooks/5mx's)even to this very day when people see me with these units they want to know how to get one - and that is usually after they finished bragging about theirs today tec. gadgets - only to realize that their TODAYS GADGETS work the best at being a niffity little paper weight.

Peace All
Donald from New York, USA

Date: 22 Apr 2008 08:35:04 +0000
From: Kate Head <address truncated>
To:<address truncated>
Subject: Re: EPOC digest #1215

You could try installing Scribus from Synaptic - it seems to work OK on the eeePC according to Rupert:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006278o-2000331777b,00.htm#comment20088611
All the best,
      Kate!!

07775 943407 / (020) 8816 8479
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 09:21:36 +0000
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: Ref: writing to SD / things that I miss from the netBook

Dear all,

Ref: writing to SD on an EEE

Go to a console window (in the Easy mode by pressing CTRL+Alt+T) and follow exactly this tutorial: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:sd_permissionsI recommend you to set the MODE to 0777.
Welcome in the world of Linux hocus pocus. This is definitely different from the Psion.

Things that I miss from the netBook

While working on the EEE - typing this e-mail on it - I am still amazed about what a wonderful piece of kit a netBook is.

Things that I am still in need of are:

1. Replacement for my wonderful Trueterm dictionaries, including the verbs, of Dutch to French/English/German/Italian/Spanish. The EEE came with a very nice French/English Berlitz, which looks a bit like the Trueterm interface, but I did not find any other dictionaries for it.
2. Jotter. I have meeting notes from 2000 on in Jotter. I could survive exporting this to .txt for archiving purposes, but I would like to have another program, that could group meeting notes in some kind of freeform database. The EEE comes with Notes - yellow stickies - but that's not it.

In fact, what is amazing about the new breed of UMPC compared to the Psion is that a machine the size of a netBook can read modern websites and process complicated Office documents.

It is quite funny to read in the EPOC Digest enthusiastic reports regarding the Asus UMPC and a rant about the failing E90 Smartphone. It is quite funny, that a natural way for us PDA users is not to switch to the next generation of PDA's, but actually to a PC. Who would have thought that in 2000 ?

Yours sincerely,

Thomas van der Zijden