[ale] eee in Atlanta

[Jeff Lightner]

Topic drift could have been worse - at first I thought he was talking
about a shoe width...

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:03 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] eee in Atlanta

 

Guilty, guilty your honor!

There's probly an ALE talk in this if I can get myself together enough.
Hey! I'd love to see the EEE at a meeting!


-- CHS



On 7/15/08, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

Complete topic drift in two responses...
OK.

I LOVE my n810 (and the n770 I have, but that is another story) I
dropped
a little extra for a blue tooth GPS unit (Nokia has one like most
everybody else) which keeps the GPS reception good while passing the
n810
around. SSH works well for checking the stuff at home, although the
keyboard is a bear to work with for longer periods of time for me.


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Charles Shapiro wrote:

> Heh. I just dropped $350 on a Nokia N810 (
> http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810 ) and am pretty
happy with
> it so far. It's running Maemo ( http://maemo.org/ ) on a 400 mhz TI
"OMAP"
> processor in 2 gb of mass storage and 128 mb of RAM.  Other  hardware
> features include a mini-SD slot, sound through speakers or 'phones, a
pretty
> sensitive touch-screen and integrated stylus, a slide-out keyboard, a
> microphone, a camera, and an on-board GPS receiver. The whole package
is
> about 8 ounces and maybe 5x3x1/4 inches. Battery life is good if you
turn
> off the networking, so-so if you're connected or searching for a
connection.
>
> It picks up wifi pretty very well, and it allegedly can connect with
> bluetooth as well. The browser has a flash player installed and is
capable
> enough to run gmail or watch youtube without issues. The GPS is pretty
ok
> but doesn't acquire as fast as my Garmin Etrex Legend. The included
case is
> pretty basic, so I'm considering buying a spiffier one. Getting a
waterproof
> case may prove difficult; I'm currently keeping it inside a plastic
bag
> since I occasionally wind up outdoors in the rain.
>
> The dev kit is easy to install on kubuntu, although it'll be next week
when
> I try using it. The machine allegedly supports python, although I've
run
> into apt(8) troubles trying to install it on the very latest &
greatest OS.
> There's clearly a bunch of interesting and relatively quick projects
still
> to be done -- for starters, GPE ( http://gpe.handhelds.org/ ) doesn't
appear
> to have a shopping list app, something I use weekly on my Palm 3XE..
>
> Alas, matchbox ( http://matchbox-project.org/ ) currently supports
scroll
> bars _only_ on the right side, a big trouble on a touch-screen/stylus
driven
> machine if you're sinistral. Of course, matchbox is also FOSS.. Hmm.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On 7/15/08, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Henry wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there anywhere I can look at the eee and similar computers in
>>> Atlanta? It is important that I can actually see and use them,
because
>>> their form factor is so integral to their value.
>>>
>>> So far, I've come up with Frys, BrandsMart, and Microcenter. Last I
>>> looked on their website (it is down now), Frys did not have the eee
>>> there. Microcenter and Brandsmart do have the eee, but their
selection
>>> appears limited (no 900, which I think I am most interested in, for
>>> instance).
>>
>>
>> Well, if you can stand the utter oddness of it, I've seen eeepcs at a
few
>> Target big box stores (Charlotte), and I _think_ it was the 900 but
I'm
>> not going to swear to that. I think it is the first time I've seen a
>> computer stocked at Target, and not all of them by a long shot.
>>
>>
>>
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