Category Archives: Linux

Why is Windows WiFi so slow?

Posted on October 19, 2009 by blogmywiki

A friend of mine has just bought a netbook – a Samsung… I tell everyone I love my Lenovo and they buy Samsungs anyway – and he noticed how slow its wireless networking was compared to his MacBook. I fired … Continue reading →

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Hands on with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Posted on September 13, 2009 by blogmywiki

Times are hard and my Apple PowerBook G4 is on its last pixels… its Firewire port doesn’t work, I think the Bluetooth is bust and the final straw was the screen – most of the time two thirds of it … Continue reading →

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Messages! From Outer space!

Posted on January 27, 2008 by blogmywiki

I finally got to play with a pukka One Laptop Per Child laptop on Friday. I’d heard sniffy things about it, and indeed I bought an Asus eeePC for myself as you can’t buy the OLPC in the UK. I … Continue reading →

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Setting the Asus eeePC clock using NTP

Posted on January 16, 2008 by blogmywiki

For some mad reason the Asus eeePC doesn’t have any option to set its time and date using an NTP server – not even when running in the advanced desktop mode. Here’s a quick way to add the function if … Continue reading →

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TillyPaint on eeePC

Posted on December 12, 2007 by blogmywiki

I got TillyPaint working on my eeePC – it’s a very simple finger-painting program wot I wrote aimed at very young children. The idea is that you can make a mark without clicking the mouse, which almost all paint programs … Continue reading →

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