nEeepery

[ellarien]

May be of interest to a couple of people, cut for the sake of the rest.


Right. I think I know how to induce fairly decent behaviour in the Windows Networking feature of the Eee.

1) Boot up in Easy mode.
2) Connect to the wireless by choosing the Network icon [not the wireless icon] and choosing 'connection/connect' for the previously-configured wireless network.
3) Switch to Full Desktop.
4) Start up Firefox. (This may convince the machine that it really has a network connection.)
5) Start up the File Manager.
6) Surf the web for a few minutes while the computers on the network notice each other.
7) Profit Browse the shared folders on the other computers. Log in to password-protected shares if necessary. (If it's working properly, only folders with something funny about their permissions should give trouble on non-password-protected shares.)

Of course, WN being what it is, tomorrow this may not work at all, but it seems to be working tonight.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I'll let you sort out all the technology and experiment further.

Right now, I'd love a way of accessising the not-so-bad text editor other than by opening a txt file from the desktop.

Oh, and for Open Office not to crash when trying to assign a background to all slides. On the other hand, PowerPoint on Windows doesn't honour 'use this template' either. Grr. Cue much 'copy this slide'.

I love the term nEEEpery. *So* appropriate.

[ellarien]

kate filename from a console? (Which you can get under tools in the File Manager, or by hitting ctrl-alt-t.) Or if you have the full desktop enabled, it's on the menu under applications/accessories.

It does look like quite a decent little editor, now you mention it -- maybe good enough that I won't need to go to the trouble of installing emacs.

I'm also a little less than impressed by OpenOffice's performance, though I haven't done much with the Powerpoint-analog yet. I get the impression it's using memory very inefficiently -- it really shouldn't be cramped in a half-gig of ram, even if there's no swap file!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Thanks for tips. I may have a try this weekend at getting the Eee to see my desktop via the network.

However, as part of the reason for having the Eee is to enable me to work away from the temptations of the Net, it's not vital and using a USB memory stick to transfer the few files I need to share is fine at the moment.

[ellarien]

Don't mind me! I'm a bit of a compulsive tinkerer, I'm afraid, but a distraction-free writing appliance is a good thing too. Some days I still miss my Amstrad PCW, which just did full-screen, monochrome text.