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May 1st, 2008

WPA without ndiswrapper on Xandros (for Asus EEE)

Timelady gave me a lovely link for all you Asus EEE users out there. It’s a guide on configuring WPA on Xandros.
What does it involve?

Removing the WPA supplicant installed by default.
Installing WPA supplicant from the Debian repositories.
Installing MadWifi drivers.
Creating wpa_supplicant.conf_MINE
Creating a new network configuration.
Making sure that you fix the network monitor icon.

The […]

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April 23rd, 2008

OLPC to ditch Linux in favor of Windows XP

After reading the articles on Computerworld and the Inquirer, I felt disappointed. Why? Because it seems that the OLPC team is backing off from their original plans. They are now thinking about using Windows XP instead of Linux on the OLPC. Uh… Hey, that’s so weird, dude!
*sigh*
Reasons mentioned:

Compatibility with Flash sites
Compatibility with […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

April 10th, 2008

TV Tuner for the Asus EEE

A Hong Kong magazine was reported to have tested TV tuners for the Asus EEE. The drivers are for My Cinema U3100 Mini DVB-T and DMB-TH tuners. The article about the TV tuners was talking about how it worked:

…HDTV channels broadcasting in this format won’t play on Eee. Other channels sent over in […]

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April 8th, 2008

HP’s laptop for school kids

Even HP has a new line of laptop for school kids. The laptop is called Mini-Note, which makes sense for something as small as a machine measuring 8.9 inches diagonally. It sounds like HP is following the footsteps of the OLPC and Asus. Like the Asus EEE, it has no optical drive […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

March 4th, 2008

A better Xrandr tool for the next Ubuntu release

Photo from mwilkie via Flickr

If you’ve been using Linux and wondering if you could use two monitors, especially for those who are laptop users, you have a tool Xrandr. But the thing with Xrandr is that it’s buggy and it’s mainly something you have to configure via the command line which not everybody is […]

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February 29th, 2008

Low cost Dell laptops to be available to Asia

Laptop prices have dropped considerably lower over the last two years and it’s even getting lower with the Asus EEE. Dell apparently wants to introduce laptops which will have a competitive price against the Asus EEE. They have Red Flag Linux running on one of their low-end machines.
This sounds great to […]

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February 4th, 2008

NotebookReview.com reviews the Asus EEE again

They reviewed the Asus EEE PC again and they don’t regret giving it the Editor’s Choice Award. :) Indeed, they emphasized the appeal of the ultraportable: it’s affordable and you could do the basic stuff that you want. It wasn’t really meant for heavy duty working. If you want something like that […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

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