Playing with the cheapy computer

Last night, I spent quite a bit of the evening playing with the new little Norhtec computer that arrived on Monday from Thailand. I made a good number of false starts, but by the end of the evening, I was at least able to get the system to boot from a USB memory stick to the install screens. I fooled around long enough to know that I was not going to be able to get a good install until and unless I rebuilt the kernel or found the exact install for the processor on the system. This morning I was able to find a Puppy Linux install disk (iso) that looks like it will do the trick. I think this is going to work just fine as a system to grab and store images if we can get our cameras going. That will probably mean an additional rebuild of the kernel. It looks like getting the wireless going might be quite a struggle, too. Nevertheless, I made some progress and learned a ton.

On another note, my buddy John S. from work painted a very cool painting. He knows a lady that gives classes in painting these kinds of paintings. A bunch of us at work (and Lorena, Kelly, and Christian) are planning to take a class or two from her together.

This looks interesting.

Update: I have decided to start blogging on this computer over at our KamVu website blog. I have put a rough, preliminary description of what we are trying to do.