floccinaucinihilipilification: The Blog » open source http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of blogging Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 EEE PC http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/2008/01/11/eee-pc/ http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/2008/01/11/eee-pc/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:16:27 +0000 Darin http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/2008/01/11/eee-pc/ I am now the proud owner of an EEE PC. I am still getting used to it. Especially working with the teeny tiny keyboard. However, as time progresses, I hope to get used to working with it. I am actually writing this post using my tiny laptop. Pictures are coming soon. I am also planning on doing some software and maybe some minor hardware hacking as well. (I already have a 2 gig memory upgrading waiting). Expect more posts about my adventures.

Here are my upcoming plans:

  • Gentoo
    • WPA wireless
    • Coda (a network file system)
    • see how compiz-fusion works otherwise probably enlightenment

In the future might consider trying an internal USB hack. Probably the one that uses the web cam port.

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Even cooler, is Beyond the Red Line a total conversion that is implementing a Battlestar Galactica game in the Freespace 2 engine. So far they have just released a demo, but it is pretty good.

Even though I am playing these under linux, they also appear to be available for Windows and OS X.

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