That does not do what you think it does

[jadesfire]

I just tried to use my mobile phone as a mouse for my computer.

Disappointingly, nothing happened apart from it beeping at me.

Welcome to Monday.

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ETA: People who write 'idiot's guides' to geeky stuff (linux, CSS etc). You are not dim enough to do this. Seriously. You think you're speaking English, but you're still speaking Geek. You have to realise that when you try to make something better for idiots, all the world does is build a better idiot. At the moment, that idiot is me.

(Before anyone jumps in to help me, I'm in the process of sorting it out, thanks. I'm just increasingly frustrated by people not explaining the very basic principles ("this is what CSS does" "this is what you are doing when you type into a Terminal box") before launching into their how-to guides. Grrrr!)

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Mine's a fairly basic 900 and comes with 16Gb of solid state storage. Since I have no intention of downloading masses of music or movies to it, this should be fine, particularly as I have ridiculous numbers of SD cards and USB sticks lying around for extra storage if needs be.

Am feeling a bit nervous about taking the final step into proper geekdom and owning a computer that runs linux but I'm hoping I can manage. In the early 1990s I went from never having used a computer in my life to knowing my way fairly well around DOS and command prompts. By 1998 I had built my first PC. It might take a while for me to get the hang of it, but I suspect I could well become a linux geek...

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as cheap and available as external storage space is these days, it's not a big problem to have a small hard drive. And if your main goal is to have a portable computer (not to do graphics on it or vidding or anything fancy) it's a great little computer. I bet you'll warm up to Linux fine. I knew a little bit of DOS once upon a time (a very little) but I didn't have regular access to computers until after college, and by that time Windows 95 was out and all over the place. (My journalism classes used Macs.)

I'm a bit frustrated recently because I've had to wipe my hard drive and restore factory settings twice within a week. What I need to do is get a Linux for Dummies book, dedicate some time, and make myself sit down and learn it. The EeePC is probably not a great one to learn on because it seems to have its own versions of the OS and software (and the manual doesn't even tell you what they are) but I'm sure I could make more progress than I have haphazardly visiting online forums. I just seem to always have other things to do!