My new little friend...

Well, as Santa didn't bring it to me I had to hunt it down myself. I'm referring to the Asus EEE pc 900 in black that eventually arrived after DHL kept me waiting for an extra day due to a mistake made by the delivery man.

As my mum pointed out, it's been called the "bloggers laptop", so I thought I would honour the name by starting to post more regularly on my poor abandoned blog.


The main reason for buying the EEE PC was so that I can spend more time in the living-room with my family, opposed to working from the desktop computer in another room in our flat. The criteria to be met was that it had to be relatively small (which it definately is), it had to have integrated wireless and be cheap. The EEE met all this perfectly.

The fact of the matter is that I'm discovering that it's actually quite comfortable to type with the small keyboard; not perfect but very acceptable.

After having installed a full-blown version of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and having spent a couple of days tweaking it, I'm ready to take on a project; installing a wiki and ftp server on the main desktop through remote desktop from the EEE. I'm using FreeNX and have only found one problem: the down arrow key seems to be substituted with the PrintScreen key, so everytime I press it I get a screenshot of the desktop. Oh well.

As soon as the result is ready I'll post some screenshots, as the wiki and ftp server are intended to be for private use only and therefore not accesible to the public.

I wish myself best of luck.