Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-18 Thread g
Hiisi wrote: By the way, I would like to know how to shut up firefox' suggestion to install missing plugnins. 'about:config', filter = plugin. see; http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries for definitions. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 19:59:50 Hiisi wrote: I agree about Fedora 11, I have it installed on my Asus EEEpc 1000HE and it is fantastic. I tweaked a few things (like font size, firefox/thunderbird themes) to make the display a little friendlier on the small screen. You would also

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 22:34:12 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:18 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What problems with Flash ?? Wow, that's good to know. So these things actually get killed on sites with heavy flash? That concerns me wrt to how much computational

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-17 Thread Hiisi
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 19:59:50 Hiisi wrote: --SNIP-- Adblock Plus its name. Moreover, I would suggest simply do not install flash-plugin at all. No flash - no problems. For some sites it's necessary, and using flashblock makes it easily controllable.  Then you get unexpected

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Hiisi
From: Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net Subject: Re: Netbook Opinion To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q? Community_assistance, _encouragement,        =09and_advice_for_?= using Fedora.     fedora-list@redhat.com Cc: Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com Message-ID: 20090915230153.b2d8e135.thea

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread rgheck
On 09/15/2009 09:47 PM, jack craig wrote: i like my asus EeePC 1000, but its dual boot is xandros moblin! :-P I've had no issues at all with F11 on my EeePC 1000, either. Can't see why you couldn't dual boot with Windows. rh -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:52 -0400, rgheck wrote: On 09/15/2009 09:47 PM, jack craig wrote: i like my asus EeePC 1000, but its dual boot is xandros moblin! :-P I've had no issues at all with F11 on my EeePC 1000, either. Can't see why you couldn't dual boot with Windows. You can and I

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Jim
On 09/15/2009 08:26 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey Guys, I am about to get a netbook for home/work so it must dual boot Linux and windows. What are some opinions anyone having used various brands have? Was looking at Acer's and Asus books. The Acer Aspire One 751H looks pretty nice. Thanks!

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:21:15 +0400 Hiisi wrote: Why you did so? Was it really necessary to activate window$ if you only wanted to see that everything is in order? That was the easiest way to give it a quick test. If there was a problem I could have returned it and exchanged it for another one

RE: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Tait Clarridge
On 09/15/2009 08:26 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey Guys, I am about to get a netbook for home/work so it must dual boot Linux and windows. What are some opinions anyone having used various brands have? Was looking at Acer's and Asus books. The Acer Aspire One 751H looks pretty

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Hiisi
I agree about Fedora 11, I have it installed on my Asus EEEpc 1000HE and it is fantastic. I tweaked a few things (like font size, firefox/thunderbird themes) to make the display a little friendlier on the small screen. You would also want to install a flash blocker, I don’t remember the

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Jim
On 09/16/2009 02:59 PM, Hiisi wrote: I agree about Fedora 11, I have it installed on my Asus EEEpc 1000HE and it is fantastic. I tweaked a few things (like font size, firefox/thunderbird themes) to make the display a little friendlier on the small screen. You would also want to install a

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Hiisi
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:21:15 +0400 Hiisi wrote: Why you did so? Was it really necessary to activate window$ if you only wanted to see that everything is in order? That was the easiest way to give it a quick test.  If there was a problem I could have returned it and exchanged it for another

RE: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What problems with Flash ?? Wow, that's good to know. So these things actually get killed on sites with heavy flash? That concerns me wrt to how much computational power they have. I realize they are atoms, but are that weak, or is the flash that bad:) Thanks everyone! jlc -- fedora-list

RE: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:18 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What problems with Flash ?? Wow, that's good to know. So these things actually get killed on sites with heavy flash? That concerns me wrt to how much computational power they have. I realize they are atoms, but are that weak, or is

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-15 Thread jack craig
i like my asus EeePC 1000, but its dual boot is xandros moblin! :-P On 09/15/2009 05:26 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey Guys, I am about to get a netbook for home/work so it must dual boot Linux and windows. What are some opinions anyone having used various brands have? Was looking at Acer's

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:26:56 + Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey Guys, I am about to get a netbook for home/work so it must dual boot Linux and windows. What are some opinions anyone having used various brands have? I have an Acer Aspire One (the one with the 160gb hard drive and 1gb of ram)