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| DATE | 2008-05-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ASUS EEE PC Disk Space
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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:39:55AM -0400, Mark Simko wrote:
> BTW,
>
> I got one of those cloudbook thingies.
>
> I think it is great except for a very limited wireless range, which is a
> serious achilles heel.
>
> I took it apart yesterday, and added an antenna to the wireless card,
> but that only gave a slight improvement. I may have to use the windows
> drivers for the wireless card, which I really hate the idea of doing.
>
I picked up a wireless connection yesterday right over the center of
the Manhattan bridge while on the subway. I thought that was cool.
Does the ASUS use native wifi drivers?
> Also, This cloudbook had gOS, but that got clobbered the other day. The
> update manager tried to install Ubuntu 8.04, and the kernel and image
> files were lost. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 from the alternative disk, now.
> Still some issues like getting sound working, but I like Ubuntu better
> than gOS anyway.
>
> I've been looking over some cool mods that some guys are doing to these
> things. I'm itching to change my screen over to a touch screen.
>
I few weeks ago I published a company where you can buy a touch screen
that fits over the monitor. Nice device.
> Some guys are putting XP on their cloudbooks, but I just can't see it.
> Then you have to run antivirus, eventually get winrot, and have to
> reinstall again. Gotta keep in mind that these UMPC are niche devices,
> not general purpose.
At this point I'm using the ASUS for near everything that I'd use a desktop for
but a few extra things as well, like using it as a mobile phone.
Ruben
>
> cheers,
> Mark
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:31 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking at y EEE hard drive and it's very strange.
> >
> > It's a 2 gig drive. fdisk confirms it is a 2 gig drive and there
> > is a /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2
> >
> > df -h says that root partition has about 410 Megs and its nearly full
> >
> > mount says I have 3 patitions all mounted to / and that one is called
> > the unionfs
> >
> > What is unionfs
> >
> > When I mount /dev/sda2 by hand it is a dulicate of /dev/sda1
> >
> > wat the hell is going on here and where is my hard drive space?
> >
> > Ruben
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