A pleasant surprise and a question

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

7150 wrote:
> The instructions are here:
> 
> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/battery.shtml
> 
> George
> 
> ---
> 
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> I just received my XO!! The doorbell rang, and there's a FedX guy with a
>> package from Brightstar.
>>
>> The question is, "Where on the web page are the instructions for putting
>> the battery in the slot?" Either it's a very tight fit, or there's
>> something I'm missing.
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> 
Got it!! I'm on the air!! First impressions:

1. Everything seems to be working mostly like the virtual ones I've been
playing with for the past couple of weeks. I haven't attempted to do
anything on the T-Mobile part yet -- that will be Wednesday.

2. Out of the box, there's about 700 MB of free space on the main flash
drive. That's way more than I'll need -- all I really plan to install on
it is Maxima, gForth and the Linux-ported OFW Forth.

3. The keyboard is amazingly sensitive. I was expecting to need to "push
harder". The smallest QWERTY keyboard I ever used successfully was on
the HP-100LX, and that had HP's famous tactile feedback keys.

4. It takes a long time (several minutes) for my 4 GB USB stick to be
fully recognized and cataloged in the journal. But once that's done, I
was able to open the PDFs on it. It's my "portable reference library".
It has hundreds of performance and other papers, dozens of programming
books, etc., on it -- about a GB total.

So ... off to Staples/CompUSA/Office Depot for a USB NIC!

Has anyone ever tried putting an NX or VNC server on one of these?