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Thought this was the best ad I had in a long time.  No more plastic bottles for me.

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EeePC at work: Day 2, Post 2…abort

ABORT!

I am aborting my “week” with the EeePC half way thru day 2.  The machine with 512mb of RAM is just too slow for using as my main work machine.  I am going to try to get Ubuntu 7.10 loaded and see if that helps at some point this week.  For now back to the MacBook!

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EeePC at work: Day 2, Post 1

I want to start day 2 with some of my reflections from day 1.  I am still using the EeePC as my main machine.  That is a good sign.  The bad news though is that I feel I need to make a big change (see #3).

1. The machine is too slow for regular web-browsing and productivity apps.  I figured that becuase this thing was running linux, firefox, and openoffice, 512mb of RAM would be sufficient.  I was also trying to keep the price point down under $300 (I am using the base $299 model).   I think a full 1gb of RAM would do wonders for my experience, assuming it would speed up firefox.  I live in Gmail, Gcalendar, and Gdocs all day.  Anyone know if this thing is upgradeable?
2. The keyboard is still a problem.  My external usb keyboard solves that problem but I am very leery of writing anything more than a few notes and/or an email or two with the built in keyboard.  I am wondering if a 9-10″ model of the EeePC could accommodate a full sized keyboard?
3. I am ready to try a new OS for two reasons.  One, I am hoping I see a speed increase and two, I want a full OS not the “lite” version that comes preloaded.  I have two choices to do this.  The first choice would be to turn on the full version of the existing OS (Xandros I believe) or I could install a flavor of Ubuntu.  Yes, I could install others but I am partial to Ubuntu and PClinuxOS doesn’t have an EeePC version hacked together yet.  The key will be finding a different OS that can still handle the power mgmt features for this particular machine (stand-by, lid-shut, etc.)

I will continue thru day 2 as is and keep you posted on any OS changes.

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Asus Eee PC…first impressions

I have just opened my Eee PC and I have to say I am loving this little thing.  The keyboard is a little small and the bios upgrade killed the scratch pad.  But yanking the battery and restarting seemed to do the trick.  I am hoping more bios upgrades are on there way.

I am writing this post using the ScribeFire add-on for FF.  Can’t wait to try this thing with a big monitor and usb keyboard and mouse.  I am also looking forward to getting this in the hands of some students.  Keyboard probably won’t be as much of a problem.

I purchased this for $400 dollars.  IF this gets to $350 or even $300 (which I am sure it will shortly) how can I not get this in the hands of students next year!?

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Baby Ava!

My wife Lea gave birth this morning to a 7 pound 4 ounce baby girl named Ava Graner Kennedy. I am a very proud father. Pics can be seen at:

http://flickr.com/photos/ctkennedy75/sets/72157594430628203/

EduCD

I want a free CD that has all the greatest productivity, multimedia, games, and educational apps.  The CD should contain a LiveCD (and/or installable) version of Linux.  The CD should also contain free audio, video, and screencasts.  I should be able to receive a new CD quarterly.  The CD should contain some proprietary software (flash, adobe reader, zip, etc).  The CD should contain an offline website that points to new and beneficial web 2.0 resources.  I should be able to easily (and quickly) remaster the CD for personal use to make my own Linux install or to brand the CD for my school or organization.   We could start with the OpenCD project…

Test Pic

Do you see a picture?