Comments on: My little Asus Eee PC

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:07:56 +0000

I ought to mention that I’ve replied to Doug separately.

I don’t agree that every byte of data that the BBC has should be public; but I do strongly believe that if a company cannot trust its employees with its data, then it should sack its employees and bring in trustworthy ones.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:04:51 +0000

Andy — have a look at Funpidgin, I believe it has MSN video chat enabled (Pidgin should have it too, but the developers aren’t keen on listening to their users).

Doug — heaven forbid BBC information, which we’ve paid for, should “leak out”. We the people who pay your salary should have access to every last byte of data the BBC has.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:14:44 +0000

I just bought a new ASUS 900 for my girlfriend’s birthday present. As my previous experience with Linux has been a bit disappointing from an ease of use perspective - the Xandros system supplied with the EeePC was a very pleasant surprise. In terms of ease of use - it beats any Windows environment I’ve ever used hands down. My girlfriend is not geeky at all - and she found it dead easy to use out of the box. Had Skype working with the webcam in a couple of minutes. Her only (minor) disappointments were that Pidgin doesn’t seem to support MSN video (webcam) streams and that it doesn’t come with Spider Solitaire (which I’ll look at fixing when I’m allowed to play on it). I’ve yet to determine how easy it is to install new applications - I can see there are Linux versions of Spider out there though some folks seem to be saying the Windows version is much nicer and it’s best to install WINE to run that instead.

Following on the InfoSec comments above - I assume your 4gig memory stick has an encrypted area if you use it to hold corporate files.

By: Doug Crabbe

Doug Crabbe — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:11 +0000

thanks for your comment on my pingback - I’m not criticising your use of the device and I am aware that you weren’t connecting it to the Beeb’s network - it was perhaps a slightly glib remark intended to refelect my concern at the number of non-corporate controlled devices being used for work purposes…

Unless these devices are used solely as “front ends” to web services accessed across a secured connection ( with caching naturally turned off ) then there will inevitably be a leakage of corporate data onto the device…

Hence Blackberry’s can be remotely wiped and MS Exchange can force a password policy onto Smartphones…

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Doug’s Ramblings » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-07 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:44:14 +0000

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By: dave

dave — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:40:53 +0000

Have you actually measured any performance gain with the CPU scaling enabled? I ask because I believe with the latest Linux kernels it’s potentially counter productive. Basically it’s better for the batter if the laptop finishes what it’s doing as fast as possible then ’sleeps’ for as long as possible, rather than bouncing back and forth between active and passive states.

The intel guys call it the race to idle: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/applications-power-management/race-to-idle.php

You might want to run through the suggestions they have for monitoring and saving power and see why Ubuntu is using more battery power.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

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Interesting Stuff 07.05.08 | Dom.ir Blog — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:37:07 +0000

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By: Dan Taylor

Dan Taylor — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:57:22 +0000

Just downloaded Tiddlywiki. Thanks for not naming and shaming me as the MBA/TextEdit note-taker :)