[OT] EeePC :-(

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Last week I bought a refurbished EeePC for my wife for $200. The goal
was for he to watch the Big Brother feeds. The Netbook seemed to be
perfect as long as the video is reasonably smooth. All well and good.
But... somewhere along the way MSIE reports can't connect to
destination. In my trouble shooting, the network icon shows it still
connected. I double checked by WAP and the other laptop had no problems.
This happens every once in a while, and while I can trouble shoot the
problem, my wife really would not know what to do. So, the EeePC is
going back to MicroCenter today. This could be an issue with Windows 7,
the firewall, or a hardware issue. Not worth the effort. I might
exchange this for another unit and put Linux on it. I'm wary of this one
because it could possibly be hardware.

On the plus side, in the future I can let her use my Linux laptop since
RealPlayer is now web based and authentication now works under Firefox
and Linux. In the past, the authentication required active X.

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