Category Archives: operating systems

Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

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Messages! From Outer space!

Posted on January 27, 2008 by blogmywiki

I finally got to play with a pukka One Laptop Per Child laptop on Friday. I’d heard sniffy things about it, and indeed I bought an Asus eeePC for myself as you can’t buy the OLPC in the UK. I … Continue reading →

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Setting the Asus eeePC clock using NTP

Posted on January 16, 2008 by blogmywiki

For some mad reason the Asus eeePC doesn’t have any option to set its time and date using an NTP server – not even when running in the advanced desktop mode. Here’s a quick way to add the function if … Continue reading →

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TillyPaint on eeePC

Posted on December 12, 2007 by blogmywiki

I got TillyPaint working on my eeePC – it’s a very simple finger-painting program wot I wrote aimed at very young children. The idea is that you can make a mark without clicking the mouse, which almost all paint programs … Continue reading →

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eeePC – the photographer’s friend

Posted on December 4, 2007 by blogmywiki

The Asus eeePC is great for the photographer on the hoof – especially if your camera uses SD cards which you can just pop in the slot in the side. The default image viewers are okay but leave a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Asus eee PC, Linux, photography, Xandros | 12 Comments