MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds

muirhead writes "Installing MeeGo on an Eee PC 1000 netbook is quick, slick, and easy. The user interface is colorful and stylish with many quirky animations. MeeGo's features are easy to discover and it is fast and responsive. Underneath it all though there is still just a netbook. That means it's got a display screen that has no significant weight behind it. That means typing on an undersized keyboard that has no life. All of these undesirable features can, however, be fixed by adding 9kg (~20lbs) of VT320 video terminal."

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Sigh, I just threw out my VT320

[wandazulu]

I rescued a Vax, complete with a VT320 from the garbage at work and while it all worked, I simply couldn't justify the electrical bill and the noise for a machine that had far less computing power than a Mac mini. So it finally met its end at the loading dock of an electronics recycling center.

Thinking about the VT320 makes me feel old; I'm sitting in the computer room at the university, with its linoleum floor, coding away on a VT320 logged into an Ultrix machine, with my custom termcap that mapped the function keys to screen sessions, I felt like I was CODING. REAL. SOFTWARE. This was the BIG TIME. Nevermind that even vi slowed to a crawl when someone invoked the compiler. I wouldn't be surprised if the Meego was a slightly better machine than the Ultrix, performance-wise.

Now get off my...aw, forget it.

Re:Sigh, I just threw out my VT320

[wandazulu]

Since we're feeling old, what I really miss about "those days" was the "communal" nature of a number of people all using the same machine at once. You were guaranteed that other folks would be logged in, and in pre-IM days a quick "talk" session with someone who knew C better than me solved many a tricky problem.

Funny enough, I was "talk"-ing with someone I had not ever met face-to-face about how to solve some algorithm or something, and he said it would probably just be easier to write it down on paper. I agreed to meet him, and asked him which lab he was in; turned out he was sitting in the carel right in front of me!

Good times. Good times.

Re:Sigh, I just threw out my VT320

[lxs]

Don't feel old. According to Prince, both VAX and PDP machines are bound to make a comeback next year when the internet is obsolete.

Security Breach in Video

[Anonymous Coward]

He probably should change his login password now.

Uses Lego Mindstorm

[ojintoad]

Connecting the video terminal to the netbook was fairly straight forward. Starting from the VT320 video terminal I used a Parallel to Serial Port converter plugged into the RS232 cable from a Lego Mindstorms set. The other end of Lego cable was plugged into a RS232 to USB adapter connected my netbook. (You could go straight for a Parallel to USB adapter cable, but I personally would not want to miss out on some excellent Lego.)

What a blockhead.

Re:Meh. Did that with an hp48

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

So did you type

-9
[ENTER]
process-name
[ENTER]
killall
[ENTER]

Bah.

[oddaddresstrap]

A VT-100 should be plenty for anyone.

Re:I'd just like to interject.

[Anonymous Coward]

You're forgetting one simple GNU/Fact - rms is GNU/God. He created the GNU/Heavens and the GNU/Earth!

Re:Uh, yea...

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh Earl, you leave the poor kid be, he ain't hurting nothin', and you wouldn't'a' even known he was there but fer that kdawson feller raising a ruckus; he's the one yuh should be runnin' off. Want I should fetch yuh yer shotgun and some o' them rock-salt loads?

Re:I'd just like to interject.

[the_womble]

Actually the proper name for what I use is:

Mandriva GNU/Linux/xorg/KDE/Qt/Gtk

Re:I'd just like to interject.

[rishistar]

Is he also responsible for GNU/Metal?!