Long(ish) Way Down.

[wascally_weasel]

It's now less than a fortnight until I set off on the sleeper train north from London to Inverness for my ride from John o' Groats to Land's End. For anyone who doesn't know the UK, this is traditionally considered our longest mainland journey and goes from the northeast corner of Scotland to the southwest tip of England

Comments

[bexfiles]

The best kind of idiot! Good luck, and we'll be thinking of you!

[wascally_weasel]

Thanks!

So how difficult will it be for me to:

a) Get an Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee PC in time to take with me.

b) Set it up for use.

I'm thinking this would be the best way for me to blog the trip - can write stuff up for later upload for times with no internet access (which will be much of the time).

Bearing in mind that I'll also have my 20GB i-river with me, I should have no problems with storage. I'm hoping wahtever OS I get on the thing will work with my mapping software.

[bexfiles]

No idea on how rare they are now, but I think Tottenham Court Road often have supplies - and you're in London, so it's a pretty good bet :-)

Setting it up - well, it comes with Open Office, which is done and dusted. Then it's just to do with getting photos onto it, edited and off it.

[wascally_weasel]

What OS does it come with as standard?

[bexfiles]

Linux (Xandros) but it's pretty simple to use. It all comes down to how many additional programmes you want to add to it.

[wascally_weasel]

For the trip, I'll just be happy with being able to use the internet, write up my stuff on a daily basis but the mapping stuff working with it would be a huge, huge bonus. I'll need to load that on the i-river as it's about 5GB I think in total (but does have 1:50,000 scale maps of all of the UK)

[bexfiles]

I know very little about any mapping stuff, if you go to Eeeuser.com they have a wiki there with a listing of programmes that work with the Eee and how to set them up

[wascally_weasel]

Maplin seem to sell the 4GB one online reasonably cheaply and claim to be able to delvier in a few days.

I'll maybe try them rather than going to TCR which tends to be a bit pricey these days.

[wascally_weasel]

So I gave in and bought one on impulse in Currys just now. It's only the 2GB version but I have a 4GB SD knocking about at home I think.

How long should I charge the battery for?

How quickly should I stop using you as the font of all Eeeeeeee PC knowledge and use the forums like evryone else?

[bexfiles]

hehe, charge it until the light goes off, then it's fully charged :-)

And congrats!