Everyone and their brothers talking about it, and I’ve seen a few around the uni, I even hear my old mate Adam has one too! I’m talking about the Asus EeePC, I thought I’d document my recent purchase as taking photos of it gives me an excuse to clean up my desk!
It’s a small, inexpensive laptop which I thought might be useful while at university. It’s in no way intended to replace a desktop computer, but it’s very handy at getting on the internet while out and about. No messing around with mobile phone browsers when I can get free WiFi around the university campus, at home and at my girlfriend’s house.
Still not decided what operating system to run on it though, the default install was too limited, so I replaced it with XP, since then I’ve installed Mint Linux, and now I’m considering going back to XP.
My main concern is related to its screen size; some windows become inaccessible as their height is fixed meaning some of the content is out of sight, and without scrollbars it becomes impossible to use. Most frustrating 
The solution? In Linux, Alt + left-click to drag the window up to reveal the out of sight content. In Windows, you can use the bundled utility to up the resolution, allowing you to “pan” up and down.
There isn’t much more I can say, so until next time, I wish you all the very best.
Asus EeePC Photos
Filed under: PWnet Websites
I’m currently in the process of moving accounts to the new PWnet Central system. During this time you may receive an email containing your username and password.
PWnet Central functionality such as ordering/billing and ticket support are offline until the transition is complete. Check the status page for updates.
It’s been a while since I updated my blog, I’ve been busy with university – coming to the end of the first semester. I’m studying Computing Science: Web Development, a four year course (including a years work placement in the third year). I’m living in halls at Staffordshire University, the Stafford campus. I have a small room, restricted internet usage, but apart from that its a nice place!
I’ve been keeping busy, during freshers week I met the most amazing girl in the world, Tasha. We met at one of the union organised events, Tony Lee’s XXX hypnotist comedy night.
We’ve been ice-skating, the first time since going with my secondary school!
Spent a weekend in Portsmouth with Tasha’s best friend, Shona. Went out on the Saturday night to a comedy night/club. The next morning we took a day trip to London, traveling on the train.
A few weeks back we went to see Pendulum performing live in Birmingham, a totally different experience to when I saw them with Nick in May. Definitely worth it.
I checked the UCAS Track site after being tipped off by Nick, so I knew even before collecting my results that Staffordshire University had accepted me. Wolverhampton, my insurance university also gave me an unconditional offer.
Collected the results from SSFC just before midday, in no particular order:
- Business Studies: C
- ICT: C
- Sociology: C
I’m pretty happy with my results! 
I spent four days at Staffordshire University on their Step Ahead summer school pilot, it laid to rest some of my fears about going off to university, but it also made me realise how much I really do want to go, getting the results today has taken a weight off my mind!
Finished my last exam this morning, we get the results on Thursday 16th of August 
I need two Ds and a C (or the equivalent combinations) to get into Staffordshire Universities Internet Technology course I’ve applied for. Hopefully, regardless of my total lack of revision in some subjects I will be able to achieve this!
On another note, It didn’t really deserve a post of its own, I bought an MP3 player a couple of weeks ago, originally I chose a Philips, but Amazon’s estimated delivery time put me off, so I cancelled and ordered the SanDisk Sansa instead.
It’s only the 2 GB model but I’ve bumped it up to 3 using the microSD slot and the card I bought for my phone a while back… but never used as it only worked intermittently. The Sansa is much smaller than my PDA so hopefully I’ll use it more often.
