The Netbook Thread

[HGFB]

For C64 you probably want Vice and for the Speccy emulator you should be using Klive.

[oxo]

thanks

[dom]

Regarding the lifetime of flash memory, I noticed under Xandros that the filesystems are mounted as they would be on a standard linux distro, but the advice on the eeeusers forum for installing xubuntu suggests mounting with "noatime" so that the filesystem catalog is not updated each time a file gets read.

I've heard that flash-based storage lasts about as long as hard disks, so I'm not particularly concerned about this, and I won't be thrashing my Eee with gazillions of tiny files as far as I'm aware, but can anyone enlighten the curious as to whether this is likely to affect how long the flash storage will last, and whether there is anything similar that the XP users can do to reduce accesses to the flash storage in order to prolong the lifetime of an Eee, especially since it's not possible to replace in the same way you can with a normal laptop hard disk?

*breathes*

thanks

Dom

[Dio]

You also want to turn off access time write. I'm also planning to fit 2G of RAM and disable the page file.

[Viscount Charles]

When not using my Eee at work, I'm often to be found playing Diabl2. It'll play more modern games, of course, but Diablo2 is a classic worth revisiting.

[dom]

You also want to turn off access time write. I'm also planning to fit 2G of RAM and disable the page file.

Ah yes, that was the other thing these instructions suggested - turning off swap. I guess if you're only using the Eee to browse the web and chat online, you don't need swap anyway.

[oxo]

really getting to grips with my 1000h now.
Its brill for playing all my favorite old games on with a 360
controller plugged in.

Had a wierd one today. Went to Micro Direct to get a 2gb
ram upgrade for it. Bought it and decided to put it in while
I was there. Fired it up and XP was still only showing 1 gig
of ram. Spoke to the tech guy there and he was stumped
too (the 2gb was a Corsair chip). We then looked at the
bios and it was showing 2gb of ram. Then we exited the
bios and let XP fire up again and amazingly it then saw 2gb.
Very wierd. We changed nothing at all in the bios settings.

Oh well, alls well anyway. Loving this machine.

[adam]

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

haven't kept up with this thread so this might be a repost, but it's a linux livecd for the eee... i know livecd's sometimes include the option to load into memory on startup...

[littledrummerboy]

Would Photoshop run on one of these beasts?

[dom]

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

haven't kept up with this thread so this might be a repost, but it's a linux livecd for the eee... i know livecd's sometimes include the option to load into memory on startup...

The eeexubuntu ISO is more than just a live CD, it's an installation image which boots as a live CD and gives you the option to install. I used it with great success to install xubuntu on my Eee 701 a while back, there were very few things I had to setup manually and I was quite pleased with it all.

Would Photoshop run on one of these beasts?

That probably depends what you mean by "run" I've seen Photoshop being used on a 200 MHz PII with about 512 MB of RAM, but I imagine that editing large images would be slow due to it using a lot of swap. I don't know what recent versions of Photoshop have in terms of memory requirements, but the Gimp runs without any problems under Linux on the Eee.

My tuppence worth.

Dom

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

If you don't specifically need Photoshop, then Paint.NET is quite a nice alternative free photo-editing package.

[zip accident]

Would Photoshop run on one of these beasts?

That probably depends what you mean by "run" I've seen Photoshop being used on a 200 MHz PII with about 512 MB of RAM, but I imagine that editing large images would be slow due to it using a lot of swap. I don't know what recent versions of Photoshop have in terms of memory requirements, but the Gimp runs without any problems under Linux on the Eee.

My tuppence worth.

Dom

Gawd, that brings back a horrid memory, using an old version (more or less current then, old now) of Photoshop on a Win 95 350MHz P2 with 64MB of RAM, and loading a 70MB image from HDD, which took about 15 minutes. That was back when swap files were necessary, not just an interesting way of wasting HDD space and time.

[Viscount Charles]

Had a wierd one today. Went to Micro Direct to get a 2gb
ram upgrade for it. Bought it and decided to put it in while
I was there. Fired it up and XP was still only showing 1 gig
of ram. Spoke to the tech guy there and he was stumped
too (the 2gb was a Corsair chip). We then looked at the
bios and it was showing 2gb of ram. Then we exited the
bios and let XP fire up again and amazingly it then saw 2gb.
Very wierd. We changed nothing at all in the bios settings.

Yup -you have to go into the BIOS before the Eee will recognise the extra RAM. As you say, there's nothing that you need to change when you're there, you just have to go into the BIOS settings.

[dom]

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ - "LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds"

"They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync."

[tufty]

Dunno if it's a particularly good price, but this just cropped up in one of my "annoy the fuck out of the nigerians" email accounts. It's legit.

https://www.ibood.com/site/eu/order.php ... =iboodmail

Asus Eee PC 900, 8.9" screen, 1GB ram, 20GB solid state hard drive, Linux - € 279,95

It's about 100€ cheaper than I've found it anywhere else on a first glance.