From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40482 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:42:26 +0200 Message-ID: <67A3F6C6-B778-49DD-8201-68FF8B66AA35@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208621715 21997 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2008 16:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:15:15 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing ConTeXt users list for Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 19 18:15:48 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jn9cc-0005Mb-Ew for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:44:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D391FB8F; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:43:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07514-01-9; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8C71FB72; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257A91FB60 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:43:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07514-01-8 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:42:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout09.t-online.de (mailout09.t-online.de [194.25.134.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED24B1FB72 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd33.aul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1Jn9aY-0001AB-09; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (JbBqyTZEQh4uM9GgUp+CbMMDWoH8Qa+gVeHuyFA5oQ+Rj06mcjg-1A-a5h0aiJcQYL@[87.178.89.66]) by fwd33.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Jn9aV-1iOpHs0; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:42:27 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-ID: JbBqyTZEQh4uM9GgUp+CbMMDWoH8Qa+gVeHuyFA5oQ+Rj06mcjg-1A-a5h0aiJcQYL@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: d20f81fe-0cb0-49cc-8cf7-1d7250f01f69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40482 Archived-At: Dear all, maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!). Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to schlepp it almost every day, a normal laptop seems pretty heavy after a while, that's why I got me one of those eeepc thingies. Its tiny screen and small keyboard scream "I'm just a mobile device, not a replacement for a real computer," and it's not the fastest machine around. However, my joy is great whenever I stuff the little thing in my bag and lift it. I got the 8GB variant. To do work, I always want all my documents with me (so I can easily sync my entire Documents directory between work, home, and laptop) and, of course, my TeX installation. My texlive- texmf tree now is 1.6 G, so I needed a bit more space than the 4G model offers (models with larger screens and hard disks will be available soonish). It has a SDHC card reader, so I copied my Documents and the TeX installation to the internal disk (a SSD) and have my linux installation on a card from which I boot. With a shell script, I set the $PATH so I can mount the internal disk and run ConTeXt off of it. Everything works wonderfully. As I said, it's a slow machine, so you don't want to compile very long documents too often, but it does run every flavor of ConTeXt. I often prepare my presentations on the train, and this works great: I have the environment to which I'm used for editing the source files (emacs + ConTeXt) and a pdf viewer open in another workspace. This setup is one of the reasons why I prefer a texlive installation to a minimal ConTeXt tree: that way, I have to maintain it only once and can sync it between my computers. So whoever has to travel a lot: I find it wonderful to have such a small and light computer on the road. All best, have a nice weekend Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________