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Video: Quick Start Episode 2 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-05-22 02:15:09
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2026-06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0h8wWlBxY0

Against all imaginable probabilities, I am actually continuing this series, and I expect to have episode 3 out this time next week. How I'm accomplishing this is anyone's guess.

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What The Heck Was Asus Express Gate?

If you owned an Asus motherboard or laptop in the late 2000s, you may be entitled to compensation. 00:00 Intro 02:00 Going in blind 03:58 What is Splashtop? 06:51 Software overview 18:21 The contemporary experience 22:50 Marketing failures 26:17 What about laptops? 30:09 ExpressGate on EeePC 32:35 How did the motherboard work? 37:35 How did the laptops work? 40:51 Can you mod it? (Yes) 41:35 Express Gate in summary 42:58 Lenovo w/ Splashtop 44:12 Lenovo w/ Splashtop 2.0 49:35 HP w/ Splashtop 51:40 Splashtop In Review 54:02 Teaser 54:45 Outro Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cathoderaydude Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude

Comments

qdoggie

Is it possible the OS was using a ram disk tmpfs mount for /tmp and anything else it required writing? Does it actually *save* bookmarks between boots? This may be answered before the end of the video.

Nick R

This is a cool series. Great job (have a trophy 🏆 since we're doing homestar runner references)

Yaniv Levinsky

Fun fact: I had an Asus MB that had the same USB flash drive soldered to the board, but it did not include the express gate OS. Instead, the drive was visible on Windows. It was marketed as an accelerated memory, like something you should tell the OS to use as cache. Well, flash does have faster seek speeds than an HD, but I remember it being pretty useless (it's was just 512MB when 2GB RAM setups were common). I ended up using it for storing bios updates and such, it was very useful for that. The MB name was (funny enough) "ASUS P5B-Plus Vista Edition" And here's the marketing for the stupid soldered flash drive: ASAP(ASUS Accelerated Propeller) Support Windows Vista ReadyBoost™ technology for greater productivity! ASAP gets you to your destination ASAP. ASAP supports the Windows ReadyBoost™ technology which improves system performance under Windows Vista. Enjoy greater efficiency and get more productivity out of your system - ASAP. BTW, This version of the MB had one less USB header on the board because of this feature.

Dampfkadse

waiiit a second, i think i have a HP notebook with that features you mentioned at home guess i know what i'll do tonight :D

Xaviette Katzenfrau

Heard about your work troubles; bumping my $5 patronage to $20. Not just because of your troubles, but also because you deserve it cuz you make good shit haha.

Joseph Prest

QQ is still a thing in China BTW. Used it as my main email for years before they locked me out a couple weeks ago.