Dear Santa: Alpha 400, the $250 Linux laptop
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Brad Spangler
This looks promising as a good, basic, ultra-cheap field laptop for bloggers & activists — the Alpha 400. It runs Linux, of course. Supposedly, it can be ordered from here for $250 and that reportedly includes the courier cost (apparently from Hong Kong).
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Off-topic:
Brad why does the comment box continue to stretch over the boundaries?
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It’s like that in every browser I use, and every OS. Perhaps I’m just not using enough or the right things.
If I had to guess, I’d say the reason why is that it’s a peculiarity of the particular screen resolution you use. It’s not something I’ve seen firsthand.
To try to accomodate you and any other readers possibly having this issue, I went into the Wordpress theme files and edited the width setting for the comments textarea box down to a smaller size. It should be narrower now. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Excellent ;-) Now it looks just fine.