Category Archives: operating systems

Less is More – the Asus eee PC

Posted on November 28, 2007 by blogmywiki

OR: NEVER MIND THE $100 LAPTOP, GET A LOAD OF THE £200 LAPTOP! I’ve had my Asus eee PC for a couple of days now, and can set some thoughts down… as you know this is a tiny £200 sub-notebook … Continue reading →

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Asus eee PC

Posted on November 27, 2007 by blogmywiki

Just got my tiny £200 Asus eee PC laptop. Will write a proper review when I’ve played with it for a few days… initial response is very positive… few odd gripes: Had to start broadcasting the SSID on my WiFi … Continue reading →

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How to put movies on a Nintendo DS using a Mac

Posted on November 19, 2007 by blogmywiki

Memo to self, type post – please ignore if you don’t have a Mac and a Nintendo DS… You will need: A Mac running OS X A Nintendo DS or DS Lite An M3 card or similar to run Moonshell … Continue reading →

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Tiny cheap solid-state laptop

Posted on October 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

Tired of waiting for the One Laptop Per Child laptop? How about one of these cuties from RM / Asus? It’ll be £169, uses flash memory not a hard drive, has WiFi and runs Linux. Ticks all the boxes for … Continue reading →

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Why Your Neighbour’s WiFi security is so poor

Posted on May 16, 2007 by blogmywiki

I think I might now know why there are so many unsecured wireless computer networks around. I could never understand this, it seems so stupid to leave your network wide open. Security is easy enough to set up with MacOS … Continue reading →

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