Comments on: HP Mini 1000 MIE user notes from target audience users

By: Karel

Karel — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:47:06 +0000

I think I am what you refer to as a target user of my Mini Mi. I like the whole open source idea, and from reading some articles online, understand that I must own a pretty good and highly costumizable machine. Nevertheless, I’ve been struggling with basic audio settings for a while now – followed instructions from a hp forum to improve sound quality, and had my first steps in the world of gnome-terminal, but so far it has only resulted in messing up other sound settings, especially skype’s.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:31:37 +0000

How do you get the Internet to connect to a wireless network – I keep getting prompted for my encryption key, but it won’t take. I read on another site, Amazon I think, that another user could not get the thing to connect to their existing network.

After much trying, punching the key in over and over, it finally said it was connected, but the browser and Thunderbird wasn’t seeing the Internet. Help please!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:29:24 +0000

I know that everyone won’t have the same opinions, but I thought it would be interesting to hear the thoughts of some people who aren’t power users. The difference here is that while someone like you or me might recognize that there is a way to adjust notifications like that, they probably don’t, and don’t realize that they might need to dig into the settings of the program to make it suit their needs.

By: fab

fab — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:04 +0000

you asked your sisters and both do not have the same opinion, now you can imagine that HP asking a certain amount of potential customers gets 100 different opinions…they just chose the most common ones and implement it. it is absolutely impossible to make a perfect system / device. this is not the goal i think, but to give a system / device which can be adapted to your own needs. i personally think that GNU/Linux is way more customizeable than Windows apart from the fact you don’t pay for anything…. anyway..

pidgin gives you the possibility to adjust notifications with plugins. in either windows or linux. so just install the plugins and mainly “guifications” which gives you a huge choice on how to be notified.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:41:37 +0000

that notification is a issue in maemo as well, except there the icon will float in the corner.

still, that has its own issues, as it will obscure part of the toolbar of the browser (what i most often use in full screen).

all in all, no clue on a possible fix…