Overall - I’m really impressed.
Pros
It’s tiny - meaning very portable
It’s light - under one kilo
It’s fast - Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
It runs Linux - Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
It’s cheap as hell - I paid about 300Euro
It’s got Wifi and webcam - […]
Tuesday 6th (the day of my presentation) eventually rolled around. Due to a crazy machine rebuild and re-install fest, I only finished writing the presentation at 1:30pm on the day. It went really well, some very good questions at the end. As I mentioned in my previous entry - the description of the presentation was […]
As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will
Finish the new design of this site - […]
I was very interested in going to Linux World this year. There were quite a few speakers and presentations I thought would be very interesting. I had hinted to my boss that I wanted to go but as we are currently a microsoft house, it was not really going to happen.
I figured I could do […]
instLux, installing linux on a machine with no cd or floppy drive
I was very bored of my toshiba libretto L5 as WinXP was getting crazy slow on it so I never bothered to use it. I wanted to put Ubuntu on it but the live cd or the install would not recognise the PCMCIA cd […]
Well, I received my server today. Quite surprisingly the packaging was a bit poor, with only bubble wrap wrapped around it. The RAID controller and PCI adaptor were loose inside. After some fretting I eventually got it running and booting into the installed Mandriva. I then started to install Ubuntu which would but install due […]
I’m not big into hardware and only really know what I need to. I’m not a gamer and have no need for any fancy graphics cards. I do however spend hours trawling ebay for servers. I am dying to buy one and I think the time has come. I had been looking at the Sun […]
In an attempt to vary the type of programming I am doing, out of office I have been working on quite a few cool projects. Outlined a few below - unfortunately none are for download yet as they are still in progress.
KarovaDev Firefox extension
As Karova’s main product is a hosted e-commerce solution, we naturally have […]
Finally Evolution on Win32. I definitely see this giving thunderbird/lightning a run for its money. - I can’t find a download though
I managed to get (with some help) XGL working on the iBook and it runs quite well considering the graphics cards in those machines. All the key bindings were screwed though (it being a mac keyboard - an australian one at that) and it misunderstood the size of my screen so all my apps were […]
