Category: computers

The Wacom Tablet Adventure »

So my big present for Christmas this year was a Wacom tablet… I had asked for this knowing it might be a challenge to get it working on my two Linux systems, let alone doing something useful… And while I’ve dabbled with modeling in Blender (and creating textures and other graphics in GIMP) it’s not […]

EEE PC, Part One »

I finally got my EEE 901 today… After using it for a bit, my feelings about the pre-installed Linux system are somewhat mixed. The automatic update system tends to bog down the computer if you happen to be doing something else with the machine at the time (easy enough to disable auto update, fortunately) and […]

Netbook »

Lately the idea of getting a netbook has been a bit of an obsession of mine… I’ve always liked small laptops – to me it’s more useful to have a little bit of computer that’s very mobile rather than a lot of computer that’s less mobile. So this whole “netbook” thing started by the EEE […]