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Blogging on the go

Posted by on Friday, July 31, 2009 in business, open source | 0 comments

This is a kinda test post. I don’t always have my laptop on yet sometimes have the time (and ideas) for an article. Therefore I like to have other ways to post. This one is being written on my Nokia N800 NIT through Maemo WordPy. Setting up for a WordPress blog was painless and I can now post articles without firing up the laptop.

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Ubuntu and the Asus Eee 701

Posted by on Monday, November 17, 2008 in open source | 0 comments

I bought a pink Asus Eee 4GB Surf a few months ago. I didn’t like the original OS, the gui was OK but updates were a pig and I couldn’t install anything else. I changed to the ‘windows-like’gui but it kept crashing. So, I tried UbuntuEee which is a flavour of linux supposedly especially for the Eee. I downloaded it twice from different locations but neither seemed to install properly although others have got it working OK. Eventually I put XP (a legal version I had but...

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