Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]
2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only. i've got a 13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so said people could take her apple macbook into her bedroom and so on. well, said people need to be not hiding-in-room, in my opinion as said people's father. Faraday cage? Also, netbook, schmetbook. IBM thinkpad x40: 150-180$ on craigslist. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones work best with our flavor of BSD. turns out that sometimes things-ubuntu fail, and i need something failsafe and with a keyboard. i'll explain later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer that would be accessible to a great many people. instead of the $8-9 kilobuck windose devs. [[ munch ]] I hear some people on the list have FreeBSD on Asus Eee net books and it is working well. [[ munch ]] okay. i'm on the eeepc.asus.com site. but don't see much info on the spec. i bot asus once years ago and the motherboard crapped out on me after a year. but by now, should be more reliable. anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only. i've got a 13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so said people could take her apple macbook into her bedroom and so on. well, said people need to be not hiding-in-room, in my opinion as said people's father. so is there any other cute notebooks like this EEe Pc that have cable? oh, and this tiny thing doesn't look big enough to have any speakers. since the main point of this experiment is to allow typing onthe kde tts apps and have voice output, a speaker is a must-have. feedback, you guys? gary ps: the 7 deal is serious cute, but the kybd is tiny and while i have no hand tremor or anything, i'd probably fat-finger most keys. anybody have the small asus? There's a wiki devoted to FreeBSD on Asus eee http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee last edited 2009-05-31 I personally think Asus desktop motherboards are going downhill, based on my very small sample of two old ones going strong and one recent one defunct, plus that funny marketing smell that creeps in - Rock Solid, Heart Touching geez. On the other hand the guys in the component level laptop repair shop I had to take my HP laptop to recently, told me they get fewer Asus laptops in for repair than anything, even thinkpads. (They get mostly HP :- ) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:53:37PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only. i've got a 13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so said people could take her apple macbook into her bedroom and so on. well, said people need to be not hiding-in-room, in my opinion as said people's father. Faraday cage? Also, netbook, schmetbook. IBM thinkpad x40: 150-180$ on craigslist. tx; i've got the info on an e-sticky -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: There's a wiki devoted to FreeBSD on Asus eee http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee last edited 2009-05-31 outstanding; i'm looking at the top-of-page rt now:) I personally think Asus desktop motherboards are going downhill, based on my very small sample of two old ones going strong and one recent one defunct, plus that funny marketing smell that creeps in - Rock Solid, Heart Touching geez. my asus days date pre-2000 when there was a builtin asus-SCSI controller. and at the time anything scsi was a must. marketing folks rate somewhere _beneath_ used-car salesmen, IMHO. there is some saying about needs vs wants, and it's the marketing guys who get us to need whatever. . On the other hand the guys in the component level laptop repair shop I had to take my HP laptop to recently, told me they get fewer Asus laptops in for repair than anything, even thinkpads. (They get mostly HP :- ) ouch! i've got two critical hp kayaks from 1998. been praying to the hp-gods:) ---well, until i can get a real live human nerd over here to help me replace them. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
