Comments on: Electronic Lecture Notes Revisited http://blog.noldorin.com/2010/02/electronic-lecture-notes-revisited/ Musings on science, technology, philosophy, and the many other wonders of life Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:29:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Noldorin http://blog.noldorin.com/2010/02/electronic-lecture-notes-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Noldorin Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:46:04 +0000 http://noldorin.com/blog/2010/02/electronic-lecture-notes-revisited/#comment-375 Oh, but I think rather highly of history students, for that matter! I've made a few updates to the post anyway, being more awake this afternoon, so you're now specifically in the category of law students. Anyway, I'm glad you've replied to this post, as there is now at least some evidence that taking notes on an Eee PC does work when you don't have to write equations! Which model do you have, by the way? A slightly newer one, if I remember right. And no indeed, David installed plain old (Gnome) Ubuntu on the thing some time ago. Regarding equations, having a graphical user interface for writing them wouldn't be a great advantage as I see, but then I don't see how it could get much more painful that entering raw LaTeX... Oh well, I'm not exactly wanting to complain here, given I have notes right in front of me that are better than any I could ever take. Oh, but I think rather highly of history students, for that matter! I’ve made a few updates to the post anyway, being more awake this afternoon, so you’re now specifically in the category of law students.

Anyway, I’m glad you’ve replied to this post, as there is now at least some evidence that taking notes on an Eee PC does work when you don’t have to write equations! Which model do you have, by the way? A slightly newer one, if I remember right. And no indeed, David installed plain old (Gnome) Ubuntu on the thing some time ago. Regarding equations, having a graphical user interface for writing them wouldn’t be a great advantage as I see, but then I don’t see how it could get much more painful that entering raw LaTeX…

Oh well, I’m not exactly wanting to complain here, given I have notes right in front of me that are better than any I could ever take.

]]> By: yoyomarules http://blog.noldorin.com/2010/02/electronic-lecture-notes-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-374 yoyomarules Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:41:57 +0000 http://noldorin.com/blog/2010/02/electronic-lecture-notes-revisited/#comment-374 While I'd hate to be lumped together with the history students, the Eee PC is very useful for notes that are (almost) entirely simple text; I really couldn't be without mine now. I have some problems with the size of the keyboard, but bearing in mind each day I'm generally using three different keyboards, I don't tend to notice the difference between changing from a smaller to larger keyboard any more than from a full-size laptop keyboard to a generic one. Given the amount of bitching I heard about it, I'd be amazed if the Eee PC you're using still had Xandros, but I seem to remember seeing something for writing equations when I was using it. While I’d hate to be lumped together with the history students, the Eee PC is very useful for notes that are (almost) entirely simple text; I really couldn’t be without mine now. I have some problems with the size of the keyboard, but bearing in mind each day I’m generally using three different keyboards, I don’t tend to notice the difference between changing from a smaller to larger keyboard any more than from a full-size laptop keyboard to a generic one.

Given the amount of bitching I heard about it, I’d be amazed if the Eee PC you’re using still had Xandros, but I seem to remember seeing something for writing equations when I was using it.

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