Jan 11 2009
It had recently come to my attention that the embedded flash videos I had on my blog stopped working. I found out that this had to do with the lighttpd backend, and hotlinking protection. Anyway, all the videos should work again. If you find one that doesn’t, please send me an email.
Thanks!
|:| Zach |:|
Jan 04 2009
Hello all,
I have received my Asus eeePC 1000HA, and worked on it a little bit. Since I can’t stand that legacy operating system that is Windows, I started researching what I would need to do to get Linux on it. Seeing as there is no optical drive on the machine, I had to install the SystemRescueCD onto a USB flash drive, and then install Gentoo from within that environment. I currently have a base system installed, and am doing the initial update/rebuild using my USE flags. I still have a HUGE amount of things to do and bugs to work out before the netbook will have a nice working environment under Gentoo. A brief list would be:
1. Get wifi working with the crappy Atheros card.
2. Get the function keys working.
3. Install the X server.
4. Choose my window manager / desktop environment.
5. Find an appropriate battery monitor.
6. Write my ACPI scripts for acpid.
7. Install all the programs I will use daily.
So there’s really a lot to do, and I’m frustrated with most of it right now because I’ve been working on it most of the day. However, I think that I will soon turn the frustration into determination, and that will help me to kill off these problems one by one.
|:| Zach |:|
Dec 30 2008
This is just a quick update on the netbook situation. I have received the RAM upgrade, and after checking with the delivery company, it seems like my order made the cut and will be here on Friday, 02 January 2009. I thought that it wasn’t going to ship out in time, and that it would arrive sometime early in the week of 05 January. Anyway, that’s all.
|:| Zach |:|
