Yes, Ubuntu on EEE! I have an 8G, old school, with the 7" screen (d'oh) running Ubuntu. I use a Sprint Sierra Wireless U595 AirCard to connect to the internets, and I have a 16 GB SD in the slot to boost my total "hard drive" space to 24 gigs. I love it. The only Ubuntu problems that irk me are:

(1) Pidgin crashes a lot when I am connected via AirCard (although it seems okay when I am on WiFi).

(2) My ancient (Gutsy) version of Ubuntu doesn't handle the EEE's built-in camera

The only EEE problems that irk me are, of course the tiny form factor and the fact that it's a little slow sometimes. But it's so great to just have a computer with me all the time--one that will ALMOST do everything I do with my gigantic normal-sized laptop at home.

Well, for example, a car that has the same thickness paint all over has probably never been in a crash, probably doesn't have big rust holes filled in with Bondo, etc. That's why it matters if it isn't the original coat :) I do a webcomic about a couple of mechanics, so I pretend to know about cars twice a week. Is it bad form to link to my comic from here? Maybe, so I won't. But I will tell you it is called "Lou's Garage."

I also liked this song immediately when I bought the CD. Didn't like the "Most Wanted" song as much. But oddly enough, I don't listen to either very often. Although I have since acquired a few of the "Most Unwanted" instruments...

There was a short-lived project of illustrating such testimony a few years back. You can see one example here: http://www.attemptednotknown.com/index.php?page=comicbook&selection=00130.php

I think their shows in the 27th century were among the best. I was sad when they closed in 2962.

Wow, a whole vlog about high-performance engine tuning without a single shot of an engine actually running. Bummer.

I was so happy when I finally bought my brand-new iBook. Early in the warranty period, I had to send it in because the hard drive had died and it wouldn't boot. Understandable, I guess. It happens.

Then the logic board died, so I sent it to Texas again. I've had several laptops, and the iBook was the only one I have ever had to send back for repair--and here I was sending it in a second time!

Then the computer finally seemed to be working...until fairly late in the warranty period, when it started to act a little strange. I called Apple and described the problem to them. They didn't have an immediate answer, couldn't tell me if it was a hardware problem or a software problem.

A couple days after my warranty expired, the logic board died again. Even though I had started telling them about the problem before the end of the warranty period, they decided that since the logic board had technically failed outside of the warranty period there was nothing they could do.

My head hung low, I took my iBook to 1-800-We-Fix-Macs and paid about $600 to get the logic boards replaced.

It came to light that there was actually a design flaw in certain motherboards on certain iBooks--and mine fell within the range of serial numbers. Apparently, Apple had become aware of this problem around the time mine was in for repair, but had replaced the (broken, flawed) logic board with another flawed (not yet broken) logic board anyway. I brought this to their attention, and they told me to send it in. I explained that I had already had it fixed, and they told me that in that case there was nothing they could do because I had not taken it to an authorized Apple repair facility. The only way to get it fixed at an authorized Apple repair facility, by the way, is to ship it to Apple's repair department in Texas.

After about 2 weeks of arguing with them on the phone, I persuaded them to give me about $300 in credit at the Apple online store. So they sort of split the cost with me, eventually.

Then the power supply died. I mean, stopped emitting electricity into the plug that plugs into the iBook, and instead started emitting electricity onto the floor in the form of sparks!

My iBook, within about a year and a half, had managed to go through 3 logic boards, 2 hard drives, and 2 power supplies.

But wait--there's more.

The little iBook came with a little 20GB hard drive. Not a lot of space, especially with my iTunes music collection. So I bought an external USB drive for my music, copied the iTunes folder over, and told iTunes the new location of the music. "Great," iTunes said, "would you like me to organize that the same way it was in the old location?" I agreed--it sounded like a good idea, and I didn't see how iTunes could steer me wrong.

What iTunes did was to randomly rename all the files and folders--so, you click on a file called "Frank_Sinatra_My_Way.mp3" and it might start playing something by Frank Zappa--or the Beatles--and of course that mp3 file might be in a folder called "Thomas Dolby". There was no longer any way to know what was what!

During the time that I owned the Mac, it cost me time and money in repairs, broke down frequently, ruined my entire music library--and when it was not actually broken, it crashed frequently if I had the audacity to actually use Safari to browse the web. But it sure was pretty.

The 3rd hard drive died last year, so it's just a pretty brick now.

The eBook will never succeed completely until someone comes out with a reader that is waterproof so you can read in the bath.

This is kind of a tangent, but it's nice to see it spelled "peeking" and not "peaking." So... props to you.

Looks like you would keep whacking your temporal lobe on your knee... I wonder what the long-term effect of that would be.

I am middle aged, so who should I hate? Everybody or nobody?

Yay, comments! I wish I had been able to comment on the story of books shaped like cigarettes (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/31/books_shaped_like_ci.html) because I did that years ago. (http://www.attemptednotknown.com/index.php?page=about&selection=ank9.php) But Technorati never could make sense of my home-built blog.