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Coming Soon To An Eee PC Near You…
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on February 07, 2008
From Just Another Mobile Monday -Proporta, makers of mobile tech accessories, is releasing some Asus Eee PC accessories. First is a gadget bag with room for the Eee PC and assorted other accessories– Another is a screen protector.More details available here.
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Rotating Asus Eee PC's Screen
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on February 10, 2008
Came across this video on youtube. The guy appears to be running Windows XP.
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Increasing Asus Eee PC's Screen Resolution
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on February 11, 2008
Jaffa of the Eeeuser forum has posted a hack to increase the screen resolution to 960 x 576 and 1280 x 976 under Linux including the default Xandros install.Screen at 960x576:...and 1280x976:It works by spawning a VNC server and then using a VNC client back to localhost. At the moment there are two flaws:1) Ctrl-Alt-T opens a terminal in the master X session, rather than the one being watched. If...
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Should I put Windows XP on my ASUS Eee PC?
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on February 11, 2008
Submitted by Steve -Here's an article [from ITWire] that asks "Should I install windows on my Eee PC?"The conclusion is logical: If you need a cheap Windows laptop buy a cheap Windows laptop. For most computing needs the Eee PC has it all.---------Thanks Steve.
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Asus Eee PC 901 internals hint future upgrades and options
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on June 03, 2008
jkkmobile has disassembled the Asus Eee PC 901. Some of their discoveries:The SSD is still 2 separate drives as there are only 4 flash modules/side on the psi-e card. 2 x 8 = 16 so to make 20GBs there needs to be 4GB separate SSD.There is also a SIM card slot and an extra PCI-E slot so 3G HSDPA option is available. Moreover, the shape and size of the cavity highlighted above, together with the...
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How to remove Viruses from USB Drives
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on June 16, 2008
Madhur Kapoor has a good tutorial in his blog on how to prevent viruses in USB flash drives from infecting your notebook. Common viruses such as Ravmon, New Folder.exe, Orkut is banned, etc. spread rapidly through such drives and most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it.In Windows, one quick way of...
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Here Comes the Asus 'Freee PC'
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on June 17, 2008
Mike Elgan of Internet News has an interesting insight on how Asus has redefined the subnotebook category with its Eee PC. Its trendsetting product hit the mark in terms of smallness, light weight, and most importantly, affordability.But as the number of mini-me's begin to crowd the market, he expect it to become too price competitive that the pricing model will eventually switch to something...
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Eee PC could rock Microsoft if it got out of Geeksville
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 15, 2008
The Test Bed is reporting that Becta, the UK agency for schools IT, has recommended schools and other educational institutions to look at alternatives, including open source, before signing expensive contracts with Microsoft to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. It estimates it would cost an average secondary school some £26,000 to up
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OLPC Project Extends to American Students
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 15, 2008
From PC World -The OLPC foundation plans to launch OLPC America this year to distribute its XO laptop to needy students in the United States.OLPC's original aim was to develop a $100 laptop for kids in poor nations to ensure they don't miss out on the benefits of computing
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Mike Elgan's Open Letter to the Ultraportable PC Industry
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 18, 2008
Mike Elgan of Datamation has written an insightful open letter to the ultraportable PC industry. It reads, in part -Dear Industry,Another CES has come and gone, and you've demonstrated yet again that you haven't got a clue when it comes to designing, building or marketing an ultraportable comp
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