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+ | ====== herbeee ====== | ||
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+ | ===== aka " | ||
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+ | Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let's face it, it is not inexpensive. I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair ((But wait you say, didn't you purchase it from Sony with the 72 hour on site service policy? Yes, yes I did, good remembering! You must have been reading my posts. But now 16 months into the 4 year policy, the first time I called them to use it, they informed me that the UX series **Does not get on site service!**. "Then why did you sell it to me?" I asked, "We would not have done that" they said. "So how do I have this 72 hour on site policy with my UX serial number on it issued from Sony?" I asked, "You have to mail it in for service." | ||
+ | as Paul Harvey use to say, //the rest of the story//.)) So, I built " | ||
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+ | In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram. In short order I installed [[wiki.eeeuser.com> | ||
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+ | It was all quite straight forward. At the end of the day I had a 7.10 xubuntu box with emacspeak and all the other [[software|essential software]] for me to try the eeepc out as a wearable. | ||
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+ | The eeepc makes me a bit nostalgic. My [[/ | ||
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+ | I messed with the settings in / | ||
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+ | That was it. So, the rig consists of an eeepc, a spiffchorder, | ||
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+ | Note: I installed UNR 9.10 on the eeepc late Nov. 2009. Installed simply and easily. | ||
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+ | ===== Things I'd like to figure out but have not had time ===== | ||
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+ | - Can the eeepc be made to respond to the power button when the lid is closed? | ||
+ | - Can it safely take 12v DC (not from a car, but a clean, regulated, 12v) as input or will that toast it? | ||
+ | - Is there and easy way to get it to notice when the wireless card has been turned back on? If I turn it off it does not usually see the card has come back unless I reboot. | ||
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+ | -Greg | ||
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