The next improvement to my MSI Wind U100 has arrived! A touch screen that requires no solder to fit and sits in nicely. I ordered it from FidoHub, the screens product page is http://www.fidohub.com/product.php?prod_id=46&sort3=
FidoHub gave me a FedEx tracking number so I was able to track the screen from Taipei City right till it arrived [...]
Well the time has come to update the wind to Fedora 11. So i opened up the “PreUpgrade” Utility and set it off. 3 hours later the download had finished (Wireless was a mistake) and it was time to reboot, so i rebooted the wind and was greeted by anaconda. It asked for nothing and [...]
My new wireless card for the Wind turned up today. I was surprised how easy it was to open up, after the eee put up a quite a fight. Once i got the screws out the back simply lifted off and revealed all the slots i needed. First off the RAM clipped in nice and [...]
Ive written a script for my wind that sets my proxy for me on login. This script doenst set any proxy options other than the on/off setting, i only use proxy or no proxy so all the other settings remain the same. Its written in ruby (no surprise there).
This is the script:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#First job get [...]
As i said in my last post i am retiring the eee and getting an MSI Wind as a replacement. Well the Wind turned up on wednesday and i have to say im impressed. I really do like the Wind, the keyboard is small, but not too small, unlike the eee im not pressing the [...]
After a couple of weeks of thinking ive decided to retire the eee. Its had a good run but its 2GB HDD has been a persistant flaw and i got rather annoyed when it consitently shot down my hopes of getting fedora onto it, i eventually settled for eeeBuntu but the usual ubuntu annoyances got [...]