I”m sorry stewardess. I don’t speak ‘nerd’. You’re always welcome whenever you’re in my neck of ‘the ghetto’.

Smitty,

Mo bettah you geevum da kine, bro.

Used to hang out there when I went to UH for Summer school. (And back many,many times.) Prettiest place on/near the North Shore.

Almost scored a PCS to PACAF as well. If that happened, I would stayed in for 20 and lived The Island Slows for another decade.

You should explain to the folks how there’s really three Oahus: the Wai Ki Ki edition, the Windward/North shore edition, and the Leeward side.

There’s a reason why I have always steered clear of netbooks – you cannot do jack or squat with them. The Intel Atom is a seriously crippled processor (single-core, almost no cache, which puts it on par with 2nd-gen Pentium 4s).

For just a “bit more” weight and size, a real notebook (an Asus with an Intel i3 and 4 GB RAM here) works wonders. Of course, once I plug in my Bluetooth adapter to allow me to use my semi-smartphone as a modem, I can’t fit it in my case.

This just goes to show what a hopelessly decent co-blogger I’ve got. Smitty vacations in Hawaii and, instead of “Waikiki Thong Bikini Video Review” we get . . . fighter jets.

An Officer and a Gentleman. Sigh.

Hard to find good help, isn’t it, Stacy?

Smitty must have a day job!

Stacy:

Give Smitty some props, inasmuch as “Decidedly Decent” is better than 99.9 of the Progressive Blogosphere.

Being one who fluently speaks “geek”, I fail to see why you would cripple an already paraplegic hardware platform with an OS and tools with the same condition. I get the Linux vs. WinTel thing and have VNC on suitable hardware platforms so I can have my geek and eat from the trough of normalcy as well.

Some Mini 10s have the 1GB memory soldiered in, newer ones allow mem upgrades. Know that even the older model MoBo will handle a 2GB chip. (Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home! Leave it for a qualified member of “The Dark Side”).

Smitty, why not set up a dual-boot with Windows? Thereby giving you access to an editor with taste, errr, features?

Remaining hobbled with Emacs is tantamount to remaining in the wheelchair after the hip spica cast come off. Or worse yet, like voting Democrat…

-LTB
(Likes neither Emacs, wheelchairs nor Democrats)

I am learning to make YouTube videos myself, and need to find a good video camera. Smitty’s new camera sure makes clear and impressive images.

Thanks for that, Smitty.

@LTB,
I speak enough vi to get around, but am a wholly converted emacs zealot. To compare emacs users to Democratic party voters is a scurrilous thing to do, sir. You may haze yourself at your own discretion.

Also, @Stacy, I’m a hopeless romantic and monogamist. And I’m on vacation with my wife. So competing with a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit video using this camera would neither suit my temperment nor my survival.

@Stogie,
It certainly has quite a bit going for it.
For strictly YouTube purposes, it may be overkill.
I do have some music projects in mind, which I used to bolster my case with the wife for making the purchase.

Running Windows on a netbook is like filling the bed of your truck with river mud right before a road race.

I notice that Avidemux is available for Linux. You might want to check out Jolicloud, a netbook-optimized riff on Ubuntu; it might even have an automatic web-install for Avidemux. It completely revitalized an old netbook I have that choked even on Windows XP (900MHz Celeron, 1Gb Asus EEE PC 700).

@smitty:
“You may haze yourself at your own discretion.”

Not required Sir, as Ms. T. Bagg regularly takes care of such details. But I appreciate you extending the offer.

-LTB

Hey! I like my blogger ghetto!