Tim gets an EeePC

Please let me know how you like it, Tim - I'm dying to get one... I was popping in and out of the places along College to see what the deals were.

Terence

You've mentioned screen, size, life, software... But you forgot to mention that it is a full computer under their, just waiting to be released. There are already guides on how to gain access to hidden usb ports, adding more flash memory, installing other operating systems.

Its a cheap, stable, accessible platform, with the added benefit of having a large hacking community already built around it.

I'd love to get my hands on one of these. Stick a usb hub inside, add usb->serial, usb->parallel, and usb->sata. You now have a tiny laptop which can connect to serial terminals, test network equipment, get data off clients hard drives, and every other type of task you can think of.. The perfect machine :D

I need help. I bought an second-hand eeepc, and the guy that i bought if from set-up a password and i cant get root on my own laptop. can anyone help me to unlock it???? Hope yes

Have you tried overloading the boot command line to set init=/bin/sh ? Then do a "passwd root".. Not sure if this still works, but it did when I needed to get into my old kernel 2.0 box ;)

The other easy solution is to mount the drive in a different PC, and then edit the /etc/shadow file, removing or replacing the hashed up password string.

I love my Eee. So far i've wired in a touchscreen so I can use it with my bluetooth gps / navigation with touchscreen control.

I may not be too popular though with my windows xp install.. Couldn't find a gps navigation system suitable for driving that ran in linux.

I welcome suggestions, I'm willing to try!

It looks like a hybrid between a computer and a handheld :p

I have just installed ubuntu linux on the eeepc and I can honestly say I am amazed. Apart from a small amount of fiddling around to get wifi working everything else worked straight out of box. I have managed to get just over 4 hours of battery life out of the eeepc at the moment, which I think is fantastic. Unfortunately I’ll be selling this on ebay next month so I can purchase the newer model, being the eeepc 900

ok here's how you get your root password back

as regular user(which has sudo rights)

goto work tab
goto file manager
goto tools
goto open console window
type: sudo bash
type: passwd root
enter pass: 123abc
enter again: 123abc

test it
exit
type: su
then type your new password
if your in root your a god or godess :)

hi there
i purchased en eeepc for my son about 10 months ago and for some reason it will not accept his password now.
he can start up and put in a password which takes him to a log on page, but when he puts the password in again the computer just jams up. can you give some advice on how to fix the problem. it is an eeepc 701. It doesnt run windows like the new ones. I think it is called linux
thanks
neenie