I had some free time over the long holiday weekend so I decided to experiment with running Ubuntu on my EeePC. Out of the box, the Linux version of the Eee puts a simplified UI (called Easy Mode) on top of a stripped-down version of the Xandros distro. It also employs the unionfs file system …
I’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s free Virtual PC 2007 product at work lately in an attempt to keep an old Visual FoxPro 3.0 application running on newer hardware. This particular application refuses to run on any machine with more than 256mb of physical RAM. That’s right, 256 megabytes. Needless to say this is not …
Tonight I did another in-place upgrade on my server, this time from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Like last time, I did the upgrade through PuTTY over an SSH connection and it was flawless. I just had to clean up a few configuration files and put back my installation of Gallery 2.3 …
We had a quiet, relaxing, electricity-free evening last night thanks to a 5 and a half hour power outage in our neighborhood. It was remarkable how quiet it was in the house without all the white noise we are used to: the bubbling of the aquarium, the hum of the refrigerator and the air conditioning, …
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Next week I’ll be taking a road trip vacation up the east coast which means a lot of time in the car. I thought it would be cool to be able to use my Eee PC in conjunction with my Treo 680’s data connection to get on the ‘net while (literally) on the road (instead …
While researching a problem I was having with Apache I came across indices, a “neat set of hacks” that adds some style to Apache’s default generated indexes. Using Scott Evan’s scripts, I was able to change my directory index from this: to this: Much nicer!
Today I did an in-place upgrade on my server from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and it went pretty smoothly (considering I did it remotely over an SSH connection). I had to re-apply a few customizations to various config files but for the most part all of the hard work I’ve done …
So it’s been three weeks since I got my Eee PC. Is the honeymoon over? Nope! I’ve spent the past three weeks carrying (and using) the Eee almost everywhere: taking it to work, having it in the car (in case I’m somewhere with free WiFi), etc. Even now I’m kicking back on the couch watching …
I’ve been following Asus’ Eee PC since it was first released late last year and was finally no longer able to resist its siren call. I purchased the Galaxy Black 4G Surf, deciding that the extra $50 over the 2G Surf was worth a) double the storage capacity (4gb vs. 2gb), b) user-upgradeable RAM, and …
I inherited an old Dell OptiPlex GX270 desktop PC from work and decided it was finally time to retire my old Linux laptop running Mandrake 10.0 and make the switch to Ubuntu. I built the box using Feisty Fawn (7.04) but a few days later Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) was released so I did an in-place …