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Adventures in 800x480land

So my Eee arrived. The first thing I noticed was the number of websites that don't go narrow enough. Myself included. A quick change two colums here and all my sites now work. I've come to the conclustion that a lot of popular sites have serious TMI issues. Of course the worst offenders are MySpaz and Facebook, and beyond pretending to be social, I've had no trouble.

Where trouble happens is with GUIs, especially those related to KDE that nerd a display of about 1024 pixels high in order to fit on the screen. It was problematic with a 1280*768 laptop, so you can guess what it's like with this.

IceWM seems to bedoing rather well despite it's pretty dress. I was thinking it was going to be about 20 minutes of owning this before KDE went on it, and about 4 hours before fluxbox replaced KDE, but it's remarkably well set up as is. Ok I needed to ad a start menu and ditch the XP-lookalike theme, but that wasn't exactly difficult.

The Gimp on the other hand is a PITA, It just doesn't like the small screen. I suppose I'd better start using imagemagik to resize my photos before they go online.

Anyway, I'm off to find the one thing the Eee's deprived me of, my sleep. 

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