I was referred to a utility this morning for use with the Asus EeePC netbook. This utility allows you to simply control hardware (wireless, camera, sD), performance and hotkeys. Models supported are: 701/701SD, 702, 900, 900A, 901 and 1000/1000H. To install the .deb package and begin using the eee control tool, see this site.
Have you been to a geek conference lately and noticed the overwhelming number of MacBooks and MacBook Pros in the audience? When I presented at OSCON this last summer it was by far the most popular piece of hardware to be seen. Now I don’t want to get into a conversation about Apple or OS… Read More »
I’ve been working on some integration between WordPress and phpBB. I did make some backups before I started working on things and, unfortunately, I had to revert to one of them. You may notice a few comments missing and a post temporarily disappeared. Things should be back to normal but if you notice anything else… Read More »
I reinstalled my Asus EeePC 701 this morning with Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid” final release. To my surprise the wireless no longer worked whereas it did in previous releases (beta, etc). Jumping into IRC I was able to find a fix however, and here it is. Installing Backported Kernel Modules You’ll need to install a backported… Read More »
UPDATE: These instructions should work for VMware Server 1.0.8 an the 2.6.27-8 kernel as well. Based on a request in the Ubuntu Tutorials Forum I spent some time this morning researching VMware Server on the new Ubuntu 8.10 release. Google was quickly helpful, and I was able to get VMware Server 1.0.7 running on a… Read More »