LauraJUnderwood
Silly Author Person
Been busy, I have. Rewriting one story, writing another, learning Linux...
Yes, I decided to get one of the cheap Eee PCs at BestBuy with the Linux distro. The 900A. White.
Xandros is silly. Really silly. It's a sort of lemonade version--or vanilla, depending on your tastebuds.
Bottom line is even when I got it into Advance Mode and made a few mods on the system (keyboard sucky compared to The Black Pearl--my 701 with XP on it), it still disappointed me. Furthermore, StarOffice Writer, the apt included for wordproessing, was always crashing in Advance Mode (worked fine in Idiot Mode, but Idiot Mode was a boring as staring at a stick of butter in the fridge and waiting for it to do something).
So as of yesterday, The White One became an Ubuntu EEE (now Easy Peasy) machine and is working just fine. I even killed the remix screen, installed the tool bar with a menu icon, and decorated with my favorite wallpaper.
It's now using OpenOffice 2.4 which still behaves moderately well. I am not terribly fond of the fact that it triples the size of files (disabled the "make a backup when saving" mode and that seems to have stopped it from bloating the files terribly).
I was using AbiWord as my free range wordprocessor of choice, but heard that it had problems with large files, so for giggles and teehees, I tried to open the rough draft copy of my novel Dragon's Tongue, and boy did AbiWord Choke!!!
And here I had recommended it to others.
Gah!
So I am back to using OpenOffice and waiting to see if they fix the bugs in 3.0 before I consider upgrading that one...
But in the mean time, I am working on a book titled Thunder Hammer, which takes place in the world of the Haxons as they were BEFORE the Great Cataclysm.
Fun stuff.
But I really need to finish the edits on Hag of the Wind since I promised I would.
And then on to other things...
Which reminds me.
Wandering Lark now has 46 signatures of those willing to prepay $12.50 to get the book into print (and the rest when it is released...)
Need 54 more names, folks.
Where are all my fans who bought the nearly 3000 copies of the first book???
Laura J. Underwood
Yes, I decided to get one of the cheap Eee PCs at BestBuy with the Linux distro. The 900A. White.
Xandros is silly. Really silly. It's a sort of lemonade version--or vanilla, depending on your tastebuds.
Bottom line is even when I got it into Advance Mode and made a few mods on the system (keyboard sucky compared to The Black Pearl--my 701 with XP on it), it still disappointed me. Furthermore, StarOffice Writer, the apt included for wordproessing, was always crashing in Advance Mode (worked fine in Idiot Mode, but Idiot Mode was a boring as staring at a stick of butter in the fridge and waiting for it to do something).
So as of yesterday, The White One became an Ubuntu EEE (now Easy Peasy) machine and is working just fine. I even killed the remix screen, installed the tool bar with a menu icon, and decorated with my favorite wallpaper.
It's now using OpenOffice 2.4 which still behaves moderately well. I am not terribly fond of the fact that it triples the size of files (disabled the "make a backup when saving" mode and that seems to have stopped it from bloating the files terribly).
I was using AbiWord as my free range wordprocessor of choice, but heard that it had problems with large files, so for giggles and teehees, I tried to open the rough draft copy of my novel Dragon's Tongue, and boy did AbiWord Choke!!!
And here I had recommended it to others.
Gah!
So I am back to using OpenOffice and waiting to see if they fix the bugs in 3.0 before I consider upgrading that one...
But in the mean time, I am working on a book titled Thunder Hammer, which takes place in the world of the Haxons as they were BEFORE the Great Cataclysm.
Fun stuff.
But I really need to finish the edits on Hag of the Wind since I promised I would.
And then on to other things...
Which reminds me.
Wandering Lark now has 46 signatures of those willing to prepay $12.50 to get the book into print (and the rest when it is released...)
Need 54 more names, folks.
Where are all my fans who bought the nearly 3000 copies of the first book???
Laura J. Underwood
