So tonight i pretty much spent all night reconstructing my eeepc and i think im almost done.

I first installed the default eeeXubuntu build found here. I didn’t want to use the internal 4g drive, so i used the 8g SD card i have as the main storage.

I didn’t mess around with many of the modifications, my wireless pretty much worked right out of the box so i didn’t mess with it. The eeeXubuntu isn’t 8.04 and i wasn’t ok with that.

I wasn’t able to upgrade to 8.04 on the internal 4g drive, maybe because of space, doesn’t matter.

Prior to upgrading, i decided to not fuck myself and actually research something that involves me doing lots of stuff that i don’t completely understand, so i found this script to fix lots of things.

I just updated as you would normally through the update manager, it took a hell of a long  time, like 3 hrs. Maybe my connection…the SD card doesn’t appear to be slow at all.

Oh, and yea, i installed off a 1g usb stick, guided the whole 8g sd card and let it do it’s swap thing. Pretty much just left that alone, defaults. No probs yet.

Upon reboot, the wireless was a goner, so i tried the script. Didn’t seem to do anything so i rebooted and tried it again. (Like it would matter..) nothing. So i found where the script was extracting the madwifi drivers to and did a make && make install and rebooted. Upon reboot my hotkeys worked and the wireless was ready to roll.  Sweeet.

I enabled community sources and grabbed the basics: compiz, emerald, nmap, cryptcat, wireshark, gnome-do, pork, awn, wine, and conky. I dig my conky config. It’s pretty standard, but it looks sweet. I spent a lot of time last week trying to get pork to exec or execp in conky, but i eventually decided to just have it auto start with the xfce4-terminal window fully transparent, no menu, no slider, no borders. Looks like it’s a part of conky. If i would have figured out how to do it i would have called it porky. Damn. So good. I made it autostart with a little batch script to sleep past compiz loading. standard stuff.

I like adobe air apps so i installed the prog by following the following instructions.

I get my emerald/beryl themes and wallpapers here.

Cranked the fonts down to Sans size 7, and made my launcher as small as i could and hide at the top and awn hide at the bottom.  (I only pretty much use it for the terminal launcher) Shortcutted the term to launch with crtl+z. Downloaded flash and made sure my orb was streaming stuff from home properly, yup yup.

Turn off snap. God thats annoying on a little screen. I guess thats pretty much it. If i have the energy, i’ll try to get slingbox and joost working with wine. Also need to get songbird on there and figure out why my cruzer won’t mount. Last.fm as well. Phew.

The 100 dollar question, will it suspend and resume properly? Answer is YES.

I’ve been awake since 8am yesterday.

“Pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program’s look-and-feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully-configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look-and-feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.”

It’s awesome. Basically you open a terminal, enter a few commands and BAM you’ve got terminal aim. This works for me as i don’t really use anything other than aim. I believe you can incorporate irc into it as well. It’s included in the standard Ubuntu repos.

Now if i can only incorporate it into conky…

My desktop decided to eat its MBR last night, so lots of Ubuntu posts are probably on the way.

You know what’s a sweet fing mac chat prog? Adium. Best chat prog ever. But as i am no longer a mac owner, and there is not yet a windows port…i hate them. very much. So i make do with pidgin/meebo cause hey, theyre fine, they get the job done. Enter Digsby. Yep everything i want in one program and it doesn’t look like it was developed for WinNT. You can find skins and a few conversation/emoticon themes @ digsbies.com. I think some of the Adium add-on’s even work right out of the box on digsby. It combines my gmail and facebook into a sweet good looking little window. A great thing about it is the popups. Yeah. In the popups when you get an IM, you have a little area in which to lol when you’re not loling, but just loling to get the other person to leave you alone. No IRC support tho. Maybe next release. MFLAWLMF.

digsby.

http://goosh.org/

This is basically a simulated (pretend) unix shell for google. I don’t know how i had never heard of this before. No, you can’t grep or cat. boo.

Heres’ some of the help file showing what you CAN do. Sweeeet. =)

It’s kinda hard to find a download for netcat these days, espically for a win box.

Cryptcat and sbd are awesome. I couldn’t do my job without em.

Good rundown of netcat options and usage here.

More Netcat Examples Below:

rootr.net
g-loaded.eu
datastronghold.com
securitydocs.com
stearns.org
4sysops.com

So i’ve been using this app lately called “Snackr”. It’s an Adobe Air app that scrolls your RSS on any side of your screen. I like it for the fact that it pulls random RSS from the .opml file you import and is very customizeable. If you’re a RSS junkie like me, you should give it a go.

Check out Snackr Here.