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[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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[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!