Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Eee PC the Gathering with family gatherings (Feb 2008) Host: Linux The Gathering @ Hong Kong Date: Saturday, February 2, 2008 Time: 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Hong Kong Baptist University campus good value for Run Run Shaw Building, 9 / Room F 905 (Hong Kong Baptist Hospital side) Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Contact Email: sammy.fung @ opensource.hk to introduce activities: Eee PC the Gathering for Linux The Gathering series of short meetings and talk about the latest A campaign around the theme of the meeting is called a Eee PC's Linux ... Posted in news | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 The new version (1.4.8) to the Amarok, said that not many ways to update, the pictures can do! Version of the music player, such as the iPod a better degree of support, even on the iPod can manage songs, The official changelog includes: 1. The better the new version of the iPod to support 2. Last.fm support improved 3. Podcast support improvement of 4. Set a new theme 5. DAAP (iTunes music sharing out) support: a new version of need dbus, in the / etc / fastservices adding "dbus" line. Posted in software applications | 13 Comments »
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Since the Eee PC is generally used by home users of Linux systems are relatively rare, so there may be a lot of Linux will face new update, out today on a graphic teaching, so that novices can be easy for you to install the latest Eee PC The best software. The first step is still often see the "Open Terminal" is the hot keys Ctrl-Alt-T, press the Ctrl and Alt hold, and then press T and then let go, the terminal about 10 seconds to see, Such a map is as follows: The second step is to become manager of the identity of the system is commonly referred to as "root" user, the method shown above, type "sudo-s", re-enter your password, the password will not pay attention to Show, will not even have the stars (*) or other patterns, type, a red indicator will be the eeepc-xxx: / home / user> The third step is to open a text editor, here we use the word " pico ", because we wish to change the crawl to update the location of the server, it is necessary to modify the / etc / apt / sources.list, type in the above chart, you can see the following as the editor of the screen. The fourth step is to modify the content as on the map like this, a total of two lines. After revision, according to the Ctrl-X will be able to save the file names do not have to modify, after the store from the editor, will see the indicator, the same as the first map. XEPC.org the GPG key database software can be downloaded, in order to ensure your system to download the software package is correct, please use the sudo apt-key add xepc-pubkey.txt our public key into your system. The final step is to test, you can check the Internet, if I may, type apt-get update command is the order of your system up-to-date software to crawl the Internet, such as updated versions of the message, and so on, if successful, will see And on the map to the same result, if there is a failure, may have to amend the file format or spelling errors, and then changed a bit, so you can pay attention to space. Even though these steps, you can easily crawl XEPC.org we have a library of software! Posted in teaching-related | 27 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Previously heard that there are ways to let Eee PC in the boot when normal services (service), for example, dbus, bluetooth. It was mentioned recently to see / etc / fastservices, give it a try today, really ah, that first call fastinit / usr / sbin / services.sh, the / usr / sbin / services.sh be strong, it is only the implementation of a "boot", will be inside: 1. network parameter settings 2. load modules For example, USB 3. Implementation of the acpid (hotkey is the service) 4. Finally, a sound card to open today is the focus of the code is as follows: if [-f / etc / fastservices]; then for i in `cat / etc / fastservices `; do / usr / sbin / invoke-rc.d $ i start done fi means to find / etc / fastservices this file, put inside his party and his party was to open the boot services, for example, we want to use Bluetooth, To dbus, bluetooth two lines. Reference: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:starting_services Posted in teaching-related | 12 Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 http://www.getdeb.net/browse.php the getdeb.net well-known Web site, there are a lot of other people for Ubuntu packaging applications. Ubuntu is a result of these circumstances the package, it is necessary to take over Eee PC is not difficult to use, look to re-package it. Eee PC you want to add what you do? Welcomed the advice. PS. Bittorrent, eMule, and so on the package will not, SSD precious ah! :-)
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008 Eee PC in order to add Bluetooth functionality, it must install kdebluetooth. However, ASUS is using the Xandros version of KDE, even naming version of Debian with a bit of a different, so can not directly install the Debian version of the kdebluetooth, it is the only Canal to the source code for the Sounds. Sounds made to the original kdebluetooth difficult than imagined, because the KDE development of the necessary software does not, it should not even kdelibs, kdebase, kdeutils, kdepim also a hard re-explain it. A busy day, finally finished, use the following method: first XEPC.org together with the software library (methods of reference before the article). Re-implementation of sudo apt-get update to update the database, the final implementation of sudo apt-get install kdebluetooth will automatically install all the necessary things. Eee PC is not used as a normal boot mode, dbus with bluetooth services are not open, so you want to use Bluetooth to the terminal prior to the importation of a number of directives to open the Bluetooth support: sudo / etc / init.d / dbus start sudo / etc / init.d / bluetooth start kbluetooth & Bluetooth will appear in the lower right corner of the icon, right-click with the mouse can KBlueMon open the program to scan a Bluetooth mobile phone, of course, you must first open the phone's Bluetooth. Can send files to the phone. Can also receive files (in the first right-click menu of choices available to local detection - Discoverable). The speed of the file to receive good! [1/2/2008] updated look and found the original KDE bluetooth ... Posted in hardware applications | 52 Comments »
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 Many sites do not present with w3c standards, the use of firefox to see some of these types of sites is very troublesome. So it was produced ies4linux, use Linux to run on Windows software with wine way to IE5 / 6 easily install up, and now the Eee PC can be used as long as xepc.org use of the software library can be. Xepc.org added the software in the library after the sources.list (please refer to the method prior to the article) use sudo apt-get install wine cabextract installed after the installation of wine with cabextract arrested under ies4linux, extract, but because of the use of the system when the Chinese , Will have to download components, starting ies4linux-2.99.0 to amend the wording of the following lib / functions.sh file to find out pid = $ (wget-q-b-t 1-T 5-U "$ useragent"-o / dev / null $ URL $ WGETFLAGS-O "$ file" ... Posted in software applications | 33 Comments »
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 [Xepc repository update bulletin] pic.xepc.org in the software library has become obsolete, replaced by modified sources.list this: deb http://updates.xepc.org/ p701 main installation aMSN for Eee PC: to amend the good / etc / apt / sources.list point to updates.xepc.org then sudo apt-get install amsn will be able to install the aMSN. Video conference to use with skype 2.0 beta, is in the terminal, type the following line, the first camera to open another amsn: 1. Sudo-s 2. Sudo / sbin / modprobe uvcvideo 3. Echo 1> / proc / acpi / asus / camera 4. exit 5. amsn then be able to use the video-conferencing! Posted in software applications | 22 Comments »
