{"id":752,"date":"2008-03-20T01:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/20\/the-eee-gets-a-memory-boost"},"modified":"2008-03-20T01:49:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:49:24","slug":"the-eee-gets-a-memory-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/20\/the-eee-gets-a-memory-boost","title":{"rendered":"The Eee gets a memory boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding to spend my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/statuses\/774197702\">credit note<\/a> immediately at CPL earlier today, I picked up a 2GB stick of 667MHz DDR2 SODIMM, for laptops. Getting home, I popped open the Eee (breaking the warranty void if seal broken sticker), took out the 512MB stick, and replaced it with the 2GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>Booted it up, and the Eee is going faster than ever. XFce4 with 2GB RAM is just fabulous. 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There are definitely some issues that I found with the Eee PC that I am not too happy about (and some that are just great). For starters, who makes a laptop these days, without integrated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":703,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/26\/adventures-in-eee-pc-land","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":1},"title":"Adventures in Eee PC land","date":"26\/1\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I bit the bullet, and picked up an Asus Eee PC today, while I failed at an attempt to get a rack. Its a 4GB model, with the webcam, and its on its 3rd run, i.e. I've got a model without a mini-PCIe connector. 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Today, while there were about 70 OLPCs given away to lucky, random linux.conf.au 2008 attendees,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2629,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/07\/ubuntu-updated-on-the-thinkpad-edge-11-magorian","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":4},"title":"Ubuntu updated on the ThinkPad Edge 11&#8243; (magorian)","date":"7\/1\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad Edge 11\" (which has the machine name: magorian) for quite some time now (from 10.10). Today I did an update from 12.04 to 12.04.1 and found my wifi stopped working. 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