AppAholic TechRant

Earlier this year, I had the fortune to obtain an Asus EeePC 701 and, after initially getting it as a ‘useful school machine’ it gradually became apparent that it was considerably more powerful than I had originally expected it to be.

Initially I was surprised when I installed EeeBuntu on it (a variation of Ubuntu Linux which includes all necessary drivers and some Eee friendly modifications) that it ran compiz even more smoothly than my desktop does (although this could be attributed to the very low resolution, 800×480, at which the graphics are running — still impressive though). (more…)

I am writing this post using a programme I recently discovered to be a fantastic text editor. I have known about Vim (Vi Improved — because Vim was created as an extended version of the Vi editor) as a programme for a long time, however I have always been daunted by it as it uses the CLI (Command Line Interface). Today, however, I realised that once I got the hang of the basic interface, it is in fact a very easy programme to use (and, as it has no GUI, it has the added bonus of using next to no RAM).

The initial problem it posed for me was the fact that the little information I had so far found, told me to ‘run x command’ or some such. This baffled me. (more…)