wrote in :

http://oldcomputers.net/trs100.html

Ha! My portable dumb terminal! I still have one in the piles
somewhere...Nice little dumb terminal machine.

"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

I had an old HP portable... one of the first solid-state ones.

(The older ones had tubes....(c

wrote in news:1067971e-5f9d-4aab-b310-
:

I have the smaller Asus ee with 7" screen and the great thing about it
is that it runs Linux and boots up in 20 seconds instead of the 4
minutes of a Vista trash machine. When in airports or anywhere with
wifi, I can check my e-mail, answer them, shut it and be putting it
away before everybody else's Vista or Windows machines have booted.



My Linux machine is the Nokia N800 Linux Internet Tablet, with a lot of
mods from the Linux hackers at the Maemo linux garage:
http://www.maemo.org/
where our freeware comes from.

The little tablet only runs at 400 Mhz on an ARM processor, but is like
you say very fast booting and running in Linux, not Bloatware. Hell,
the Gnumeric Spreadsheet app and Abiword full-featured word processor
are only a few MB of code.

Bootup is a little slowed because I have two 16GB SDHC Class 6 memory
cards stuffed with movies, music, map tiles for Maemo Mapper and
Wayfinder GPS programs, ebooks, and other stuff like documentaries, TV
comedy shows from BBC TV, etc. Maemo looks through the files during
bootup and it takes a while to wade through my piles....(c;

It's still WAY faster then even an 80GB WinXP Pro Gateway laptop.
During the bootup process, if you autoconnect through BT to the BT DUN
connected sellphone broadband, it isn't through displaying the logos
before Linux has the internet online and running....THEN displays the
home screen...(c;

Google Nokia N800 and Nokia N810. We have many videos. We stole the
Wii Remote video game controller for our games. Some smartasses wanted
to connect USB devices the tablet was never intended to support, so come
Canadians are buildling a little miniUSB to USB femail adapter with
appropriate electronics to hardware force the USB chipset into HOST/OTG
mode. Recently, I've installed some scripts and a wired LAN driver so I
can use the tablet on the directly connected LAN at home at 100Mbps,
instead of the Wifi radio link which is slower to respond. A Linksys
tiny USB 100M USB-to-Ethernet adapter runs off the router's DC on the
Cat5 cable and feeds the tablet's USB with internet,
directly.....totally cool in a portable device. I can connect to even
the Motorola Z6m sellphone's memory card (2GB) and move files on and off
over the bluetooth FTP and OBEX protocols to load and unload pictures,
music and my phone book.

Unhobbled like your Asus by the sellphone company bureaucrats, the
little Linux tablet is very addictive and new stuff comes out every
week!
http://maemo.org/downloads/updated/OS2008/275/
these apps are "released" for users. Hundreds more are in development,
which we're invited to help with, over in the garage area:
http://garage.maemo.org/

Larry wrote:
wrote in news:1067971e-5f9d-4aab-b310-
:


I have the smaller Asus ee with 7" screen and the great thing about it
is that it runs Linux and boots up in 20 seconds instead of the 4
minutes of a Vista trash machine. When in airports or anywhere with
wifi, I can check my e-mail, answer them, shut it and be putting it
away before everybody else's Vista or Windows machines have booted.




My Linux machine is the Nokia N800 Linux Internet Tablet, with a lot of
mods from the Linux hackers at the Maemo linux garage:
http://www.maemo.org/
where our freeware comes from.

The little tablet only runs at 400 Mhz on an ARM processor, but is like
you say very fast booting and running in Linux, not Bloatware. Hell,
the Gnumeric Spreadsheet app and Abiword full-featured word processor
are only a few MB of code.

Bootup is a little slowed because I have two 16GB SDHC Class 6 memory
cards stuffed with movies, music, map tiles for Maemo Mapper and
Wayfinder GPS programs, ebooks, and other stuff like documentaries, TV
comedy shows from BBC TV, etc. Maemo looks through the files during
bootup and it takes a while to wade through my piles....(c;

It's still WAY faster then even an 80GB WinXP Pro Gateway laptop.
During the bootup process, if you autoconnect through BT to the BT DUN
connected sellphone broadband, it isn't through displaying the logos
before Linux has the internet online and running....THEN displays the
home screen...(c;

Google Nokia N800 and Nokia N810. We have many videos. We stole the
Wii Remote video game controller for our games. Some smartasses wanted
to connect USB devices the tablet was never intended to support, so come
Canadians are buildling a little miniUSB to USB femail adapter with
appropriate electronics to hardware force the USB chipset into HOST/OTG
mode. Recently, I've installed some scripts and a wired LAN driver so I
can use the tablet on the directly connected LAN at home at 100Mbps,
instead of the Wifi radio link which is slower to respond. A Linksys
tiny USB 100M USB-to-Ethernet adapter runs off the router's DC on the
Cat5 cable and feeds the tablet's USB with internet,
directly.....totally cool in a portable device. I can connect to even
the Motorola Z6m sellphone's memory card (2GB) and move files on and off
over the bluetooth FTP and OBEX protocols to load and unload pictures,
music and my phone book.

Unhobbled like your Asus by the sellphone company bureaucrats, the
little Linux tablet is very addictive and new stuff comes out every
week!
http://maemo.org/downloads/updated/OS2008/275/
these apps are "released" for users. Hundreds more are in development,
which we're invited to help with, over in the garage area:
http://garage.maemo.org/


Find me a decent CAD to replace my beloved Design CAD and I'll convert
to Linux. Or a way to run without it (Wine still needs Win).

Until then, it ain't gonna happen.

I recently replaced my old Dell laptop (running 98 SE) with a Thinkpad
clone running XP.

XP ain't half bad (for Windoze) (once ya get the hang of it).

The USB connectivity is certainty more consistent.
And it boots quickly. Up in 30 seconds.
But I don't load a bunch of web stuff.

I used to be strictly a Cad and spreadsheet guy.

But these days, playing DVDs, photoshop, and cutting new movies rank up
there time wise.

But the think that keeps Ubuntu in the box is the CAD issue.


--

Richard

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"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
m...
Larry wrote:
wrote in news:1067971e-5f9d-4aab-b310-
:


I have the smaller Asus ee with 7" screen and the great thing about it
is that it runs Linux and boots up in 20 seconds instead of the 4
minutes of a Vista trash machine. When in airports or anywhere with
wifi, I can check my e-mail, answer them, shut it and be putting it
away before everybody else's Vista or Windows machines have booted.




My Linux machine is the Nokia N800 Linux Internet Tablet, with a lot of
mods from the Linux hackers at the Maemo linux garage:
http://www.maemo.org/
where our freeware comes from.

The little tablet only runs at 400 Mhz on an ARM processor, but is like
you say very fast booting and running in Linux, not Bloatware. Hell, the
Gnumeric Spreadsheet app and Abiword full-featured word processor are
only a few MB of code.

Bootup is a little slowed because I have two 16GB SDHC Class 6 memory
cards stuffed with movies, music, map tiles for Maemo Mapper and
Wayfinder GPS programs, ebooks, and other stuff like documentaries, TV
comedy shows from BBC TV, etc. Maemo looks through the files during
bootup and it takes a while to wade through my piles....(c;

It's still WAY faster then even an 80GB WinXP Pro Gateway laptop. During
the bootup process, if you autoconnect through BT to the BT DUN connected
sellphone broadband, it isn't through displaying the logos before Linux
has the internet online and running....THEN displays the home
screen...(c;

Google Nokia N800 and Nokia N810. We have many videos. We stole the Wii
Remote video game controller for our games. Some smartasses wanted to
connect USB devices the tablet was never intended to support, so come
Canadians are buildling a little miniUSB to USB femail adapter with
appropriate electronics to hardware force the USB chipset into HOST/OTG
mode. Recently, I've installed some scripts and a wired LAN driver so I
can use the tablet on the directly connected LAN at home at 100Mbps,
instead of the Wifi radio link which is slower to respond. A Linksys
tiny USB 100M USB-to-Ethernet adapter runs off the router's DC on the
Cat5 cable and feeds the tablet's USB with internet, directly.....totally
cool in a portable device. I can connect to even the Motorola Z6m
sellphone's memory card (2GB) and move files on and off over the
bluetooth FTP and OBEX protocols to load and unload pictures, music and
my phone book.

Unhobbled like your Asus by the sellphone company bureaucrats, the little
Linux tablet is very addictive and new stuff comes out every week!
http://maemo.org/downloads/updated/OS2008/275/
these apps are "released" for users. Hundreds more are in development,
which we're invited to help with, over in the garage area:
http://garage.maemo.org/


Find me a decent CAD to replace my beloved Design CAD and I'll convert
to Linux. Or a way to run without it (Wine still needs Win).

Until then, it ain't gonna happen.

I recently replaced my old Dell laptop (running 98 SE) with a Thinkpad
clone running XP.

XP ain't half bad (for Windoze) (once ya get the hang of it).

The USB connectivity is certainty more consistent.
And it boots quickly. Up in 30 seconds.
But I don't load a bunch of web stuff.

I used to be strictly a Cad and spreadsheet guy.

But these days, playing DVDs, photoshop, and cutting new movies rank up
there time wise.

But the think that keeps Ubuntu in the box is the CAD issue.


Friends don't let friends use Vista.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:15:11 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Friends don't let friends use Vista.

It actually runs pretty well on a Quad Core desktop with 4 GB of
memory and a fast hard disk. :-)

I'm liking it better than I thought I would but there is still some
software that won't run.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:15:11 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Friends don't let friends use Vista.

It actually runs pretty well on a Quad Core desktop with 4 GB of
memory and a fast hard disk. :-)

I'm liking it better than I thought I would but there is still some
software that won't run.



I've had nothing but problems with it when trying to support those who have
it. Yeah, I'm sure it's quite adequate with a Quad and 4gigs. :-)

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www.sailnow.com

Capt. JG wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:15:11 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:


Friends don't let friends use Vista.

It actually runs pretty well on a Quad Core desktop with 4 GB of
memory and a fast hard disk. :-)

I'm liking it better than I thought I would but there is still some
software that won't run.




I've had nothing but problems with it when trying to support those who have
it. Yeah, I'm sure it's quite adequate with a Quad and 4gigs. :-)



Which is more computer power that several foriegn countries combined!

WHY?

Why do I need that much power to do what I've been doing all along?



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Richard

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"Larry" wrote

As to runtime, buy a 120 watt inverter built right into the cigarette
lighter plug for it. Plugged into the house battery, it should run it
down
in a week or so. You won't notice it as a load.


I have a slightly larger inverter on the boat so battery life isn't an issue
there. I have found that the ASUS battery life is pretty minimal, about 45
minutes on a full charge. That's enough for a quick email or weather check
during an air travel connection but not enough to get through a short
flight. I expect my use away from a power plug to be pretty minimal though.

I had one of those little direct plug in inverters and it burned up while
running a laptop.

--
Roger Long

Anybody remember the Sinclair Z80? That was my first computer. A Basic
loop to count 1,2,3.... would go slower than you could say the number out
loud.

--
Roger Long