#eeepc — Public Fediverse posts
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Oder ich reaktiviere einfach meinen alten #EeePC, wenn ich das Netzteil finde...
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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... 🫤
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Un chouette reportage SVM : une novice (Jeanne‑Marie) découvre un EeePC sous GNU/Linux — douceur, surprises et petites astuces pour débuter. À voir si vous aimez la découverte, le libre et la simplicité matérielle ! #EeePC #GNULinux #Linux #OpenSource #Framasoft #SVM #French
https://peertube.giftedmc.com/videos/watch/3a63563b-1f08-4145-9c8c-d7b21aabfe08 -
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!
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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.
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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. 👍
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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. 👍
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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. 👍
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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. 👍
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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. 👍
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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
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#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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.
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Sometimes I miss my little eeePC. I did 90% of the Cumberland edition of Uresia on that thing, including page production, indexing, cartography etc.
It was about as powerful as a wristwatch calculator strapped to an Etch-a-Sketch but it was so small I could carry it around in an old camera bag instead of a laptop case.
As with all my machines, I used it 'til it gave up the ghost. 🫡 It lasted like 8 years of constant use.
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This was WILDLY difficult to make happen.
Wouldn't render properly in Wine
Wouldn't run in a Windows 98 VMI 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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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"you should get a faster laptop to make music"
no. you should get a slower laptop
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@andymccall I see. I'm just asking because recently I revived an Ausus EeePC with a 32 bit MXLinux.
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#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 -
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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.
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If you enjoyed this: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv (the modern generic #SVGA driver for #windows3x ), then you'll probably also enjoy the blog post by @Ninji about getting proper video support for a #Asus #EeePC 1000H, and exploring the internals of vintage #vga, #svga and how exactly #svgapatch does its magic. #dos #dosbox
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If you enjoyed this: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv (the modern generic #SVGA driver for #windows3x ), then you'll probably also enjoy the blog post by @Ninji about getting proper video support for a #Asus #EeePC 1000H, and exploring the internals of vintage #vga, #svga and how exactly #svgapatch does its magic. #dos #dosbox
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If you enjoyed this: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv (the modern generic #SVGA driver for #windows3x ), then you'll probably also enjoy the blog post by @Ninji about getting proper video support for a #Asus #EeePC 1000H, and exploring the internals of vintage #vga, #svga and how exactly #svgapatch does its magic. #dos #dosbox
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If you enjoyed this: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv (the modern generic #SVGA driver for #windows3x ), then you'll probably also enjoy the blog post by @Ninji about getting proper video support for a #Asus #EeePC 1000H, and exploring the internals of vintage #vga, #svga and how exactly #svgapatch does its magic. #dos #dosbox
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Toujours impressionné par la qualité du travail de BunsenLabs Linux ( @bunsenlabs ) ! 👏
J'ai mis à jour un eee PC 900 (i386) de 2009 vers leur dernière version Boron
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https://www.bunsenlabs.org/Basée sur la puissante & mighty Debian :debian: 🤘
Doté de Kernel pae 6.1 ! :apartyblobcat:
Tout fonctionne parfaitement, même sur cette vieille micro-machine riquiqui ! 👍
ça en fait un terminal minimaliste très geek, avec une interface modulable et un système Openbox rapide et ergonomique.
#BunsenLabs #Linux #Debian #Openbox #eeePC #vintage #GeekStuff
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#Netbook #Asus #Eeepc 1201T #trashware ospita #BlackArch #Linux! :jollyroger: :archlinux:
Era un pò che volevo provare questa distribuzione, con la scusa eseguirò dei test per verificare la sicurezza della mia rete wireless
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I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.
When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.
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I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.
When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.
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I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.
When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.
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I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.
When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.
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I think #MyFirstDistro was #Ubuntu in about 2007 as a dual-boot. Soon after I did get an #EeePC netbook with #Xandros pre-installed though I mostly ran #Eeebuntu on it.
When Ubuntu made some changes I went with #LinuxMint and have never looked back.
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Either way, I hope to longterm develop OS/1337 as a practical distro for lowest-end machines whilst still retaining features and keeping it smol.
Think of it like
@rasteri 's #WeeCee and #8bitGuy's #CommanderX16 having a one-night-stand and out comes a #distro that runs on decades old #IGEL #ThinClients just as nice as on recently discontinued #Wyse3040 or some classic #Netbooks like the famous #EeePC and #P11Z...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuP1L7vnr0
https://www.ebay.de/itm/196058676290 -
Either way, I hope to longterm develop OS/1337 as a practical distro for lowest-end machines whilst still retaining features and keeping it smol.
Think of it like
@rasteri 's #WeeCee and #8bitGuy's #CommanderX16 having a one-night-stand and out comes a #distro that runs on decades old #IGEL #ThinClients just as nice as on recently discontinued #Wyse3040 or some classic #Netbooks like the famous #EeePC and #P11Z...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuP1L7vnr0
https://www.ebay.de/itm/196058676290 -
Either way, I hope to longterm develop OS/1337 as a practical distro for lowest-end machines whilst still retaining features and keeping it smol.
Think of it like
@rasteri 's #WeeCee and #8bitGuy's #CommanderX16 having a one-night-stand and out comes a #distro that runs on decades old #IGEL #ThinClients just as nice as on recently discontinued #Wyse3040 or some classic #Netbooks like the famous #EeePC and #P11Z...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuP1L7vnr0
https://www.ebay.de/itm/196058676290
