Archive for December, 2007

What can you do with this ASUS Eee thing anyway?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

ITWire: What use is ASUS’ subnotebook?

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 Update: Slashdotted! My fourth Slashdotted article in 2007.

The top Linux/FOSS events of 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

ITWire: What made the crunch?

The I.T. Guy and The Salesman

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Beginning today – an irregular irreverent cartoon strip depicting the hapless heroes of the infrastructure. Does he have a name besides “The I.T. Guy”? If so, nobody remembers it anyway.

The IT Guy and The Salesman 

A cacophony of hints and tips for the ASUS Eee Linux PC

Friday, December 28th, 2007

ITWire: Here’s a collection of dead easy five-second trick that will help you get more out of your ASUS Eee Linux PC. This includes a tip to absolutely transform the little subnotebook from its default simple interface to a Linux workstation.

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Restoring and updating the ASUS Eee Linux PC

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

ITWire: Here’s how to take the ASUS Eee back to the complete factory image at any time, along with how to update the apps and Xandros Linux distro that it uses. This is well worth doing for any Eee user so you have a safe way of getting it back to virgin state after any and all tinkering and tampering. We’ll tell you the gotchas we found on the way.

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Inside the ASUS Eee Linux PC from the outside in

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

ITWire: The ASUS Eee PC is a runaway sales success, with the popular Tiawanese hardware vendor bringing Linux to the masses in a subnotebook noted for its diminutive price. Here’s a first look at what to expect in the package from opening it up to turning it on.

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Have a happy GNU Linux year!

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

ITWire: Make the switch.

Sick of waiting for Nabaztag? Get Tux instead.

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

I know I’ve lost interest in the Nabaztag (and the Sony eBook reader, and the Microsoft Zune, and other tech items that short-sighted companies seem to not care about releasing in Australia …) – so here’s the open-source Linux Tux droid instead !

Real-world Linux programming

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

ITWire: Here’s a real-world Linux app written for, and used by, an ISP. It gave help desk staff the ability to perform any sysadmin task which could be scripted for them. The app gave a controlled menu environment, using sudo to launch scripts with elevated permissions if necessary.

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Firefox hero: top plug-ins

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

ITWire: Legends of FOSS.

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