Category Archives: thrift

Asus eee PC

Posted on November 27, 2007 by blogmywiki

Just got my tiny £200 Asus eee PC laptop. Will write a proper review when I’ve played with it for a few days… initial response is very positive… few odd gripes: Had to start broadcasting the SSID on my WiFi … Continue reading →

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Tiny cheap solid-state laptop

Posted on October 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

Tired of waiting for the One Laptop Per Child laptop? How about one of these cuties from RM / Asus? It’ll be £169, uses flash memory not a hard drive, has WiFi and runs Linux. Ticks all the boxes for … Continue reading →

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WiFi Linux on a shoestring

Posted on May 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

CAUTION: this is a geeky Linuxy post that’s really just here because I’ll forget how I did this in about a week and I might want to do this again some time… Ages ago I put Xubuntu – a cut-down … Continue reading →

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Insanely Great Freeware

Posted on February 28, 2007 by blogmywiki

While I’m thinking of it, here’s some of the great – free – software I put on the kids’ computer… most are cross-platform. MAME – play old arcade games, relive your mis-spent youth, get your kids to mis-spend theirs Audacity … Continue reading →

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Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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