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hab gerade meinen allersten laptop wieder rausgekramt.
es ist ein #eeepc.

akku ist tot, aber ansonsten gehts.

ladekabel verloren, aber ein generischer 12V coaxial power cable tuts auch

L'enfant a retrouvé l'#EEEPC dans un placard.
Il tourne avec une distro #BunsenLabs qui n'a pas été mise à jour depuis... 7 ans ?
Bien sûr, il n'y a plus aucun paquet disponible, on ne peut ni mettre à jour, ni installer quoi que ce soit.

Vous connaissez une distro adaptée (petit écran, faibles ressources), interface en Français, si possible basée sur #Debian ?

#LogicielsLibres

Oder ich reaktiviere einfach meinen alten #EeePC, wenn ich das Netzteil finde...

Die Webseite muss ich mir merken. Einen selbst gedrucktes Netbook für einen #pizero erzeugt bei mir sofort #EeePC vibes. 😎

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7324764

I just finished upgrading my #Asus #EeePC 1005PEB by formatting the hard drive to remove the awful #Windows 7 starter & installed Windows XP SP3.

Even though it shipped with Win 7, it does support XP & all of the drivers are available on the Asus website.

Everything is working great but unfortunately the Elantech touchpad driver Is no longer recognizing multitouch support.

It worked perfectly fine under Windows 7. I guess I'll try uninstalling it and try out another version... 🫤

#NetBook

Welches #Linux für einen #EeePC ?

I finished stripping the rubberized coating off the #Asus #EeePC and I'm super happy with the results!

One feature of this #Netbook which I knew nothing about is that it has two power buttons. One button boots up to the #Windows OS as expected.

The other button fast boots in about 8 seconds to a bare bones #Linux distro called Express Gate. Apparently it's built into the motherboard chipset which is why it can load so fast.

This is awesome!

#RetroTech #RetroComputing

All right, who's the person that thought rubberized coatings on everything in the mid to late 2000s was the cool thing to do?

This is an #Asus #EeePC 1005PEB and the lid was covered in the thickest rubber coating that I have encountered so far.

Of course, it had gummed up over the last 15+ years and I have been slowly removing it with isopropyl alcohol for the past hour. I went around the edges and have half of the cover cleaned.

#PC #RetroComputing #NetBook

After installing multiple community versions of #Windows XP with no luck, then the HDD started giving me partition issues.

Thankfully I had an old Hiren's Boot CD from 15+ years ago. It saved the day as always & I was able to get the HDD situated.

I then installed an original #WinXP SP3 iso & installed the Asus drivers afterwards & it worked like magic.

It seriously took ALL day but I'm happy to see this #Asus #EeePC working like new. Even the battery is still good. 👍

#Computer #PC
🧵3/3

One memory I would have liked to have kept suppressed is just how bad driver issues used to be in #Windows. 😆

Driver discovery and installation is one area where Windows really improved over the years.

I remember being impressed with just how good it was upgrading from XP to 7, but Win 10 was near perfection in my use case.

I bring this up because I was trying to revive an old #Asus #EeePC this week and it was a challenge.

🧵1/3

@tbsp ooh my eeepc is quietly gathering dust! Must drag it out of storage! #eeepc

#Retrocomputing I'm just getting rid of a bunch of old CDs, some of them old driver software. Does anyone have a use for this?

#HP deskjet 940c series
#SonyEricsson K810 PC Suite
#DLink DFE-528TX Wired PCI Adpater
#Cherry KeyM@n 2.2 for CyMotion Keyboards
#Nvidia nForce2 Rev 44.07
#Sparkle model 217
#Asus M4A78 #AMD 790GX
#EeePC Support DVD
#LogiLink 802.11g Wlan
#LG KC910i
#Canon CEL-SH5DA2M0
#Logilink QuickCam V 10.0A

Not bad as a remote terminal.

#guix #eeepc #atom #oldschool

This was WILDLY difficult to make happen.

Wouldn't render properly in Wine
Wouldn't run in a Windows 98 VM

I ended up copying the .scr from the VM to a USB key (which involved mounting a qcow2 file which was easy but not straightforward) so I could run it on a Physical, Period Correct, eeepc.

#retrocomputing #wine #linux #windowsxp #windows98 #eeepc

As far as I know there are still a few Eee PC's in use on the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory (https://aat.anu.edu.au/).

I took this photo of the telescope's Cassegrain Acquisition & Guiding Unit (AGU) in 2018. There's a white Eee PC velcro'd to the steelwork on the right, which was (and quite probably still is) used to run the Cassegrain acquisition camera.

These days if you wanted a small, inexpensive computer to run a USB astronomy camera and integrate it into a bespoke telescope control system you'd use an SBC like a Raspberry Pi, but netbooks predate the Raspberry Pi by about 5 years so there was period of time where using a tiny laptop for something like this made sense, even if you didn't need the display, keyboard or battery.

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Telescope #EeePC #Netbook #Retrocomputing

I decided to tidy up my “cable and hardware box” today. I managed to part with a bag of cables, only those that I had many multiples of mind you 😂.

I also found my old Eee PC (901 I think). Does anyone have any ideas what to do with it? I believe it has a version of crunchbang Linux on it at the moment.

#eeepc #linux #tech #oldtech

Oh no! My little Asus #EeePC seems to have died. It powers on but there’s no display. Can’t say I used the computer in recent years aside from once every couple of years to update Ubuntu on it. It can’t even play an HD video even though it claims to be powerful enough.

It was originally outfitted with a spinning HDD which I replaced for an SSD. Even then it machine would still be very slow. Still, it was a fun little computer to use!

"you should get a faster laptop to make music"

no. you should get a slower laptop

#sapf #LiveCoding #Emacs #EeePC

@andymccall I see. I'm just asking because recently I revived an Ausus EeePC with a 32 bit MXLinux.

#EeePC #MXLinux #Slackware #90s #KDE #Linux

#DamnSmallLinux revived an aging #EeePC. Here’s how to use it to resurrect any old computer.
Damn Small Linux 2024 Alpha is based on #Debian and antiX, DSL uses Fluxbox and JWM window managers. There is a limited range of pre-installed software, covering web browsers, text editors, code editors, media playback and email. Because it is a Debian-based system, we can install applications using the apt package manager.
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/damn-small-linux-revived-my-aging-eee-pc-heres-how-to-use-it-to-resurrect-any-old-computer

After the bootloader fix it works on the Eee PC 701

#EeePC

@flaviaerius

I see the hardware is of course an important aspect.

You could also try fread from #rdatatable and see if this works better for you.

Since I have quite powerful laptop, I rarely come to the limits. But this was different in the past. I did my doctoral thesis (R package development included) in part on an #EeePC. That was fun.

Linux für Mobile Endgeräte

https://kaffeeringe.de/2010/02/28/linux-fuer-mobile-endgeraete/