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I do not appreciate this!

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:10:47 -0500

I do not appreciate being tricked into going to a site where you ask for MONEY to buy these templates! Nowhere in your description does it state that these are not free like ALL the other templates on this site. Please be up front and state clearly that you are attempting to CHARGE for these templates!

Conference season commences

Tournevis — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:58:23 -0400

Conference season commences in late March for my field, so yeah, very useful.

looks very handy

kmorris — Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:42:08 -0400

come conference season, this will be put to good use.
kmorris

thanx

Sara — Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:26:26 -0400

Thanks hun :)

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[Admin] Resized image

ygor — Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:49:19 -0400

It was way too big. Scaled it down to 400 pixels wide.
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just needs....

Sara — Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:13:18 -0400

The tif didn't upload for whatever reason, could you edit and see if you can get that up? :)

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Resistance Crumbling

Rocket Jones — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:50:00 -0400

My daughter has used her eeePC now for an entire year of college and still loves it, while I've been resisting the urge to pick one up for myself.

She's had two hiccups. Firstly, her wireless setup was very difficult because her school uses an obscure protocol, which is apparently standard-ish amongst US colleges. She needed help from the tech support people at her school to figure it out, but they got it going and even managed wireless printing, which was an unexpected bonus.

The second hiccup happened when a software upgrade crashed in the middle of the update, rendering the wee beastie non-startable. By pressing F5 during the boot sequence, you get an option screen that can completely reset your machine to original condition for just such an occasion. Works great. Fortunately, she had current backups!!!

The eeePC can make an impression as well. She attended a conference in the Spring, doing multiple interviews for Summer jobs (she works in theater). She set up the eeePC to open directly to her online portfolio, which the interviewers could then see. She'd also hand them a one-page summary with her URL prominently displayed so they could go back and review it again later if they wanted. She got a lot of favorable comments on the setup, and more than one interviewer referred to her as "mini laptop girl" as a distinguishing characteristic.

I really want my own eeePC, but at this time it would be just to play with. That's a fair bit of money to spend on a toy, and the new model is more expensive, even overpriced, IMO.

...and after three more months...

Jon Rutherford — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:50:59 -0400

Thought I'd update my original "after one month" comment to reflect my feelings about the EeePC here in the middle of July, a little over four months since I acquired it.

I still admire and appreciate its ultra-solid construction every time I open it (with some difficulty -- which is good, since it's virtually impossible for it to open on its own while it's under your arm in the espresso stand line, for example, or if you drop it -- in which case it will most likely emerge both still shut and undamaged, amazing).

The display continues to impress me with its clarity and ease on my eyes. I thought my desktop 19-inch Princeton monitor was easy to look at, but now I actually prefer using the EeePC when I don't need all that screen space.

I loathe the built-in touchpad, though, and pretty much refuse to use it. A wireless mouse I found on eBay for about two dollars (that's right, $2) is so wonderful I lack words to describe it. Problem solved. (The "dongle" that goes into the USB slot on the EeePC even stows in the back of the mouse, and turns it off at the same time, when you want to wrap things up and move on.)

I generally do all my work (mainly, I admit, email, a spreadsheet, and browsing and doing research on the Web; I'm retired) in the living room on the EeePC and rarely even visit my desktop machine anymore. If I can fire myself up to get involved heavily in photography again (I hit a slump when I resigned from Flickr), then I'll do all photo editing on the desktop machine.

I would rate my satisfaction with the 701 at 9 on a scale of ten. I would probably rate the larger machine even higher, but I don't have any plan to get one, at this time.

Eee PC

selang1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:49:01 -0400

Love mine can use free wi-fi in my local bar while I wait for friends and most of our express buses have wi-fi too.
Great for on the move. Storage, I just use my cards and pen drives. It is a sweetie

into the wild

movie dude — Thu, 1 May 2008 18:38:07 -0400

It was tragic that McCandless died out there in the wilderness; but then again, so many people have benefited from his story... a couple of years of hitchhiking led to his story challenging thousands (millions?) of people to reexamine their lives

Watching this over the weekend!

nay nay — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:55:55 -0400

This movie just came up on my NetFlix - should arrive tomorrow. I am sure I will have a frustrating comment to add on Monday! ;)

Yes, I also found it quite frustrating

irian — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:47:43 -0400

Leaving the map behind was such a bad idea. Read the book, and they state that there was an easier way to cross the river not too far from where he was, if only he had bothered to bring a map along with him.

Into the Wild

John McCarthy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:29 -0400

Arggh! I was incredibly frustrated by the way that movie ended. The movie makes it seem like he's this experienced mountain man until the river rises, and then, pow, he starts eating plants he can barely identify. What's wrong with eating the maggots? If my choice is die or eat bugs, I opt for the bugs. Also, go cross the hell upstream where it's shallower and come back down. There might be food or people up there. Or at least make a raft. The fact that the guy just sits there and waits to die just made me think he had nothing to offer me in terms of wisdom.

Eeepc after a month

Jon Rutherford — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:17:45 -0400

(First -- Doug, your pen articles are absolutely first-rate.)

I've had my black Eeepc 4G Surf for about one month now and have little but praise for it. It is extraordinarily solid-feeling, more than any notebook computer I've had or used before. The keyboard does take getting used to but I can now type at about 60 of my usual 80-90 wpm with no trouble -- except for that pesky caps lock key that I invariably hit when wanting "a" at least once per email, etc. I've seldom in my 50-plus years of typing ever used a caps lock key. Like the "scroll lock" key I wonder why they even exist. (I also never use a right shift key. You'd have to see it to understand.)

It took many hours to get wireless home networking to work. That is in no way the fault of the Eeepc; it's because tutorials on the Web are confusing, contradictory, and sometimes downright wrong. When I finally got it going, it was ridiculously simple (by Linux standards). Only three little files to put on the server computer and I was all set.

The display is a marvel. I bought mine on reading many reviews that bragged about the clarity of the display. I didn't go wrong.

I found an excellent wireless mouse on eBay for about $10 and that gets around the tiny touchpad problem. Settings for the touchpad can make it a lot less troublesome to use, but I've never liked any touchpad a bit, and this is no exception.

For those worried (or concerned) about the supposedly relatively short life of solid-state "drives," I have done extensive reading about that, and it appears, subject to verification, that that is now a myth -- no need to worry about wearing it out, probably, in the lifetime of the machine, or possibly even mine. These are not like the very first solid-state memory devices.

All in all, the Eeepc is better than I hoped it would be -- by quite a bit. And I had high hopes else I wouldn't have ordered mine.

Free Austin WiFi...

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:58:14 -0400

It looks like there are lots of free WiFi spots in Austin. Look at the following link. But I don't know how up-to-date this listing is--haven't used it myself.

wififreespot DOT com/tex.html

And welcome to Texas, I hope you have a great time.

HTH!

Glenda

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