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Here's what I do with it. I lug it with me to a hospital I have an internship with since they won't give me a PC. I then bring it to school and connect to the campus wifi at UMass Boston so I can finish research projects. I plug in a wireless mouse and do a lot of typing on it. When I get home I plug in a 19 inch monitor to the VGA output and connect to the home wireless network. It is amazed me it first powered all my USB external drives, printer, scanner, etc. You have to get used to typing with your hands very close since the keyboard is very small. For lots of typing I plug in a USB keyboard at home.

I also did a little hacking on the system and altered the tabbed UI and placed my favorite applications on the favorites tab. I debated whether to install Xubuntu but since the tabbed UI mostly does want I want I kept it. I took a screenshot of this small mod: http://markbokil.org/images/eee/eee-favorites.png

I am writing a theme called SeaGnome for Seamonkey so it blends in nicely with GTK desktops. I have the Mail and Browser section but am still working on the remaining suite applications.
Try it out here:
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxseagnome.php

I also have written an extension for Seamonkey which allows you to collapse down the toolbars and provides a quick menu to often used features. Great to reclaim screen realestate while browsing.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php

I am writing a theme called SeaGnome for Seamonkey so it blends in nicely with GTK desktops. I have the Mail and Browser section but am still working on the remaining suite applications.
Try it out here:
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxseagnome.php

I also have written an extension for Seamonkey which allows you to collapse down the toolbars and provides a quick menu to often used features. Great to reclaim screen realestate while browsing.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php

I noticed our library hasn't upgraded to Firefox 2.0 at Umass Boston. I thought it was interesting and asked the reference librarian why. She said the IT people didn't think it was significant enough to bother upgrading and people also didn't like the way it looked. Interesting, I thought to myself.

This is one of the reasons I switched back to the Mozilla Seamonkey Suite. It uses less memory when you run Mail and the Browser together than Firefox and Thunderbird. I like the more community orientation of the development also. All you need to do is throw on a good theme like SeaFox http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxseafox.php and add an extension to enhance the UI like MonkeyMenu http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php and you have a better browser than Firefox 2.0

I noticed our library hasn't upgraded to Firefox 2.0 at Umass Boston. I thought it was interesting and asked the reference librarian why. She said the IT people didn't think it was significant enough to bother upgrading and people also didn't like the way it looked. Interesting, I thought to myself.

This is one of the reasons I switched back to the Mozilla Seamonkey Suite. It uses less memory when you run Mail and the Browser together than Firefox and Thunderbird. I like the more community orientation of the development also. All you need to do is throw on a good theme like SeaFox http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxseafox.php and add an extension to enhance the UI like MonkeyMenu http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php and you have a better browser than Firefox 2.0

The day Netscape released the source to Navigator I compiled it and gazed in wonder at this 'real' browser I compiled on my Linux box. I followed the development of the Mozilla project from the failed start based on the old Navigator code via the slow-starting gecko-based suite all the way to the Mozilla suite. Then, suddenly, Firefox (under one if its many names) and Thunderbird appeared. They looked more modern than the Mozilla suite and individually had slightly better performance. I started using the threesome (Firefox, Thunderbird and the suite) next to eachother. For day-to-day browsing I used Firefox, for more involving things the Mozilla suite has always been more appropriate. I have also followed the development of Firefox (and to a lesser extent Thunderbird) closely, building local versions, testing nightlies, etc.

But... my experiences with the latest iterations of Firefox (both the 1.5 series as well as the 2 and 3 development series) have left much to desire. The biggest complaint is the incredible amount of memory the browser consumes - even without any extensions (errr.. Add Ons... Change the name only because Microsoft copies the feature under a different name...?) and with a clean profile. If a browser manages to bring a 2 Ghz system with 768 MB to its knees in a mere half hour of browsing there is something wrong. Unfortunately this often-heard complaint does not seem to get the attention it deserves. Firefox' development strategy being what it is there is not that much opportunity - other than by filing bugs - to influence priorities and design criteria.

So... lately I have switched more and more from using Firefox/Thunderbird to using the Seamonkey suite - the successor to the Mozilla suite. It still feels a bit more dated than Firefox and Thunderbird but it does offer much more in features while having a much smaller memory footprint. Add the Seafox theme and it looks quite a bit like Firefox/Thunderbird.

The way things look now I think Seamonkey will be my browser and mail app of preference. Should Firefox and Thunderbird ever run on top of XULrunner I might switch back but for now I have better things to do with my memory...

http://markbokil.org/downloads/seamonkey/install.h tml

Good to see work still being done on this, but I had to install something to make it easier on the eyes. Glad I found this theme.

Good Lord may have contributed ( yeah, Intelligent Design! Go JesusLand (tm) ! ), but the following individuals are Directly Creditable for Flashblock. So let their names be listed!
(quote from: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/credits.html)

"Flashblock Contributors:

        * Ted Drake
        * Ted Mielczarek luser_mozdev@perilith.com
        * Przemyslaw Bialik
        * Lorenzo Colitti
        * Philip Chee philip.chee@gmail.com

Additional contributions:

        * ... and special thanks to Neil Rashbrook (Whitelist wizardry)
        * Mark Bokil http://markbokil.org/ (toolbar button code)"

THANK YOU PEOPLE! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!