The asus eee pc comes with skype ready installed and a built-in webcam & mic. Great! Instant out of the box video calls. Simple 
No, it’s not.
The version of skype it comes with doesn’t support video calls. This took me a while to figure out. So I had to install the skype 2.0 beta which does support video. Thank goodness though, this instillation is nice and simple and doesn’t involve any smelly terminals/code.
The best thing about linux is the community. Everyone helps each other ^_^ It’s really nice.
So now I have skype & gimp set up… what else do I need?
Ye know what to buy me for christmas.
Edit: ow, installing wine has given me a headache 
and now I have no idea what to do with it. hmph.
Watching: Born Survivor: Bear Grylls
Are you using the simple interface or the full KDE desktop?
the linux terminal is tremendous, you don’t know what you’re missing
dan – full KDE
aaron – yeh, but I’m a newbie who hasn’t got a clue. I’m sure I’ll learn to appreciate it in time.
You wrote that comment at 17:37:37, that’s pretty awesome.
Being a newbie is just fine, feel free to give me a shout if you get lost.
bear grylls: best man alive ever.
he’s funny, but he can’t beat ray mears
Vim and wget are two of the sexiest command line tools.