Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700
Rick Stevens wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
>> How is it working for you ?
> I run it on an Acer Aspire One. Works fine.
*blink* Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer? How could you possibly call
something like that a mini? "See my tractor-trailer rig" and I show you a
Honda Civic with trailer hitch?
Well, I'm assuming that's what s/he meant. I, too, am of the old school
where "mainframes" were S/370s, Sigmas and the like; "minis" were
PDP-11s, Vaxen, Novas and their ilk; and "micros" were anything smaller.
With "laptops", "portables" and "netbooks", the lines are
even fuzzier.
> Don't use it much, the
> display is somewhat small for my old eyes and the keyboard is a but
> tight for my hands, but it works perfectly--including audio.
I love my Acer Aspire One; it's great for what I use it for (reading books and
network testing, mostly). The keyboard is indeed too small to do any real
typing on, though.
And the touchpad can be a bit too sensitive. But then, I'm a big oaf.
> Only complaint is that it won't light up the WLAN LED, but
WLAN works
> well.
My wireless indicator led magically started working a couple of kernel updates
ago.
Hmmm. Mine still hasn't. I did do a big-arsed update a couple of days
ago, but I haven't rebooted the machine since then. Perhaps it will
work now.
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