[Watford] February Meeting Notes

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Yvan Seth wrote:

> Asus Eee
> --------
> Steven kicked off the meeting by showing off one of the Pitney Bowes
> Software's "Asus Eee" laptops.  It's surprisingly snappy but, I found,
> very difficult to type on.  It was running Windows though (since it is
> used for powerpoint/etc) so we'll leave it at that!

If I had got out of my other meeting earlier I would have brought
mine -- which does run Linux. As a machine to carry around and do simple
jobs it is great, just don't expect to use it as a general purpose desktop,
it is too small for that.

>   *  Remote X (xterm) access to Linux systems from Windows.  Cygwin
>      (x.cygwin.com) and Xming (sourceforge.net/projects/xming) were
>      mentioned as solutions for this.  It was suggested that we could do
>      a quick run-through on installing, configuring, and using these in
>      next month's meeting.

Add 'nx' to that list.

* http://freenx.berlios.de/
* http://www.nomachine.com/developers.php

> Date: Thursday March 6th, 19:30 - 22:00

Drat, my birthday - I might not be allowed to do something interesting :-(

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