Isaac's cool blogSeems like I’ve heard of a similar treatment before someplace. Sweet quote from a gastroenterologist:
“It seems remarkable that some people are prepared to be infected with worms, but the fact that they are says a lot about how poor current treatments are.”
I got an ASUS Eee PC when my iBook finally died. I like the little thing a lot – the tiny form factor easily makes up for the limitations.
Where the 12-inch iBook had an adequate-sized 1024×768 screen, the Eee PC’s screen is 720×400, too narrow for a lot of web pages. Zooming out can help, but I find that just makes my eyes hurt after a while. I expect ASUS will add a version with a larger screen sometime this year.
The keyboard is probably my biggest gripe. The keys are all there, but they’re a little small. With my small hands and fingers it works okay, but the iBook certainly was more comfortable for extensive typing.
The installed OS is good and bad. Good because it’s a Linux distribution, so I didn’t pay for a Windows license that I wouldn’t be using anyway. Bad because it’s Xandros and defaults to a simplified user interface. I did live with the advanced desktop mode for a while. That does offer more flexibility, but I couldn’t figure out how to keep things properly updated – counting on ASUS to update Firefox seems foolish.
Luckily, I’m not the only one underwhelmed by Xandros on the Eee PC – the EeeUser Wiki has a long list of alternative operating systems people have installed on the Eee PC. Fedora usually works for me, so I decided to try Eeedora, a live cd version of Fedora with some customizations for the Eee PC. It seems to work well enough, but there are a few things I’ve done that I’ll post about later.
Sorry for the lack of updates… I’ve been using this version with WP 2.3.2 and it seems to work well. I have no idea whether it works with older versions or not. It’s mostly a few bug fixes and one major change.
The major change is with the way the album template works. Based on a post at scott.sherrillmix.com, Photopress now uses one of your theme’s template files for the album. By default it uses page.php, but you can specify any template file in th options. I suggest copying page.php to photos.php or something like that and removing the “edit this page” code for a cleaner album appearance. If you were already using a custom template I think you can just specify that in the options instead of page.php.
The biggest ongoing problem seems to be with the album failing without a permalink refresh. Just update your permalinks and it should work again.
Download it: photopress-1.1.zip or photopress-1.1.tar.gz
Fruitcake has a reputation as an undesirable, comical holiday gift, more suitable as ammunition for a trebuchet than something to eat. To me, this is the ideal food to cook at home – however it turns out, it’ll certainly turn out better than the commercial alternative.
Update: Well, I thought I had it working, but after several failed boots I gave up and installed Fedora 8 instead. It worked right out of the box, with the exception of the tap-click thing, right-click emulation, and the eject button. Not too bad.
I’ve got an old 12 inch dual-USB iBook that’s been running various flavors of Linux, most recently Fedora 7. That was working fine, but it seemed a little slow. Rather than upgrade to Fedora 8, I decided to try something allegedly better for older hardware. Xubuntu, a derivative of Ubuntu using the Xfce desktop environment, is supposed to be lighter-weight and faster. This is my little story about getting it running.