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Chugalug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 85
February-21, 2013 by: Peter Veotsch
From: Peter Veotsch ------------------------------------------------------ I use VirtualBox as =A0my hypervisor. =A0It runs well and fast under mint. = =A0I haven't noticed many practical differences between the type 1 and type= 2 hypervisors for workstation use.=0A=0APeter Voetsch=0A=0A=0A
[OT] Gadget Carrier
February-12, 2013 by: Chad Smith
From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ Hello, The world of computing, as you know, is getting more and more mobile - tablets, smart phones, mobile hot spots, internet-hungry handheld game consoles and media players... I was wondering if anyone had any experience / luck shopping for a bag or carrier or something that could hold them all - and their wires, SD cards, and extra batteries... I have a laptop bag for my laptop, and I have backpack for mega-hauls, but I'm looking for an everyday carrier big enough for my 7" tablet, a smart phone, a media player, a mobile hot spot, a game system, and maybe one or two other pocket-sized devices, and the aforementioned accessories. (I even have a couple of pocketable power strips that I carry with me. So far, I have tried something called a "Gadget Bag" - which was really for a camera, and was too small for the tablet... a tolietries bag (which fit everything, and offered decent organization, but no padding, and the zipper kept mis-firing almost immediately)... and a small, somewhat padded bag that would fit a small netbook, but didn't have a lot of organization to it, and looked too much like a purse (after getting 3 comments from different people in the same week, I decided it was time to retire it). I was super disappointed by the Gadget Bag, even the name seemed right, but the size was way off. I realize it's kind of dumb carrying all those things, but I like the sense of security knowing I have a ton of ways to get online. And, that way when someone asks me "iOS or Android" I can say "Why choose? And why leave out webOS, Maemo, and whatever the heck this thing runs?" Plus, there's the Geek Cred, which was being off-set by the "He carries a Purse" cred.... *- Chad W. Smith*
Mediatomb... or better?
February-10, 2013 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ I'm diving into things I would not normally do at home, at the request of Princess Nancy and am wondering if ya'll had advice. Her goal is encoding a big rubber tub of music and audio CD's and making them available to a player in her office, making the tub go away. I tried to buy her a Logitech Squeezebox... but she balked at the price. For now. So, using what I have laying around I updated a Chumby Classic with Zurks offline firmware: http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=7831 which works very well.. impressive. She likes the Chumby because it is cute, the speaker is good enough for her uses (quite background music). I'm using a little Asus Atom netbook as a server. I tried using it in Squeezebox mode, but after burning some time playing with setting up "logitechmediaserver" (the current version of SqueezeServer) I did an "apt-get remove --purge logitechmediaserver" It seems to be quite the kludge with lots of competing documentation. Following Zurks notes in a Readme file, I installed MediaTomb as a UPnP/DLNA server on the Netbook. I'm impressed. The Chumby does it well enough, and enabled a webserver for managing the playlist. It also worked very well with my Android Samsung Note II (I'm still liking it..) using "MediaHouse" as an App. My Asus RT16 has a "minidlna" server in it, but it seems to be picky about what it talks to. The Chumby can not see files in the folders, but my phone dos. I've decided to go down this road and do it well. So, my question is: Is MediaTomb the best choice for a UPnP/DLNA server? I see a lot of options. What are ya'll liking for a UPnP/DLNA server and what else are you using it for? ============================================================ Mike Harrison bogon@geeklabs.com cell: 423.605.6943
Bodhi Linux updated
January-22, 2013 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ BodhiLinux.com - My Bodhi Linux systems have recently been updated (apt-get upgrade.. nothing major) and the latest stable Enlightenment installed.. with a lot of spit and polish added. It was kinda freaky, as I had to re-choose my enlightenment preferences on bootup, and was afraid I might have lost important things. Not to fear, everything was kewl, shinier, glossier, and it seems just a little faster and smoother. They stuck an app menu (start button) like button on the bar, but it still has the dock and the ctrl-alt-m, and click on any desktop menu that quickly became ingrained. I'm running Xubuntu on a netbook now.. and it seems to share some aspects of the latest Bodhi/Enlightenment, so I'm liking it as well. I'm just so happy it's not Ubuntu's Unity. ;) Just sharing some on-topic thoughts. ============================================================ Mike Harrison bogon@geeklabs.com cell: 423.605.6943
OT: cool new (old used) Kit
January-06, 2013 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ So when you showing it off? Wheezy, Xorg and open box is my suggestion. ----- Original Message ----- > I was perusing ebay to check out values of some geekery I need to > sell > and stumbled across something else that i don't need, so of course I > did > the right thing and bought it. > > Waaaayyyyy back in 2008 when the MacBook Air was the coolest thing > ever, > Nokia made a horrendously expensive Netbook carved out of a block of > Aluminium. It looks like a tiny Macbook pro and has built in 3g > through > a SIM card slot, and 12 hours of battery life. It also is a fairly > pokey > Atom Z530 processor, gma 500 graphics, a 1.8" 4200 rpm sata drive > that > is SLLLOOOOOOWWWW, and worst of all 1GB of ram that is soldered to > the > mobo with ZERO upgrade possibility. > > The good news is it plays well out of the box with all 12.10 based > flavors (typing this in Xubuntu). It is fairly snappy and certainly > quite usable. I ordered a 1.8 SSD off ebay for cheap and hope that it > will speed things up just enough to where this is a pleasant > experience > rather than a bearable one. The battery life is absolutely out of > this > world. Next stop is Lubuntu which is supposed to be the lightest > weight > of all of the 'buntu's. > > For the final price this may be one of my best finds yet, and it is > VERRRYYYY Pretty. > > Just passin it on cause they are goin way cheap on the 'bay. Search > Nokia Booklet 3g. > > Happy New Year!!!! > > Phil >
has anyone put linux on a powersave partion?
December-14, 2012 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I have a vista netbook that I might want rehabilitate.
Wanted items (with regards to Virtual Swap Meet)
November-17, 2012 by: Chad Smith
From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ Anything cool and handheld. PDAs, PocketPCs, eMates, non-mainstream portable game systems (of course, if anyone is dying to give me a Vita, I'll take it... I guess). I have an Android netbook, a UMID pocket laptop with a broken screen, old Macs (iMacs and Power Macs). Now I'm in St Louis, MO - but I'll pay for shipping my stuff if you pay for shipping yours, (if you want an iMac for a PDA, you win on that deal) - or if you just want to get rid of whatever, I'll pay for shipping to me. I'd pay in Twinkies, but all I have are Cloud Cakes. *- Chad W. Smith*
Lovin' Linux
October-09, 2012 by: Eric Wolf
From: Eric Wolf ------------------------------------------------------ I'm having to travel to conferences on my own dime thanks to the GSA's party in Vegas. One side effect is that I'm not supposed to use my work laptop when I'm not travelling for work. Since I've relied on my work laptop and netbook for the past couple years, I was facing a dilemma. When I "upgraded' my wife to her MacBook, that left her 2006-vintage Toshiba Satellite ($329 at OfficeDepot) free. I had some spare RAM floating around that fit, so I upgraded it to 2GB RAM. I also temporarily freed up a 240GB SSD. With Ubuntu 12.04, I hardly notice the low-end in 2006 single-core Pentium M CPU. A large part of it, I'm sure, is the SSD. I'm sure y'all are tired of me ranting about it... but if you are still using spinny disks, you are wasting your life! FYI: I freed up the 240GB drive by replacing it with a pair of 240GB OCZ Agility III drives setup with RAID0 on my desktop workstation. That thing is FAST! -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734
~12" Netbooks good with Linux?
December-05, 2011 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ It has been a while since I have looked for a good 12-13" "Netbook" that works well with Linux. Anyone gotten one recently? My wife really likes her old Lenovo Ideapad S12 (Got it for $330 just over 2 years ago). Recently it has had trouble with the battery (as expected from a laptop of this age). So I might be in the market for a new one, but I thought I would ask here first what people have been getting and liking, or despising.
ok unity is usable
July-10, 2011 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I upgraded one of our netbooks to 11.04. Granted it had 10.04 nrm so it already had unity. But with 11.04 it is lot less buggy. once you learn where they moved the furniture so to speak, it is not bad. it is kind of like getting into one of those cars where the lights and radio controls are on the steering wheel instead of the column & dash. once you get used to it, it actually may make more sense. At least on a net book. more later as play with this.
OT: For Sale: Umid M1 Netbook
July-03, 2011 by: Stephen Kraus
From: Stephen Kraus ------------------------------------------------------ Played with it, loved it, but realized it wasn't for me Umid M1 Mini Netbook 1.3 Ghz Intel Atom 512MB DDR2 (Non-upgradeble) 32GB built in SSD with Windows XP Home Resistive Touchscreen with 1024x760 Resolution includes stylus built in 802.11b/g with Bluetooth Has a built in MicroSDHC slot for expansion Comes with the headphones and microUSB to USB adapter needed for the USB 2.0. I loved it, its EXTREMELY small, gets excellent battery life, and its the only netbook I know that is pocket sized The ONLY downsides to it: The battery it came with was dead, not to be stopped by that I simply replaced the dead cells, so it has a working 'hacked' together battery. You can purchase a new battery on ebay for about $80 dollars I am asking $200 for the lot.
Ubuntu 11.04 was Friday Friday Friday!
July-01, 2011 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ how is the unity interface working? Or did go standard gnome? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billy" To: "CHUGALUG" Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:53:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Chugalug] OT: Friday Friday Friday! It's tomorrow. (That is all.) --b P.S. I upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 11.04. Haven't noticed anything special, except I have firefox 5 and grub now hides old kernels. Otherwise looks the same.
OT: Friday Friday Friday!
June-30, 2011 by: Billy
From: Billy ------------------------------------------------------ It's tomorrow. (That is all.)=20 --b P.S. I upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 11.04. Haven't noticed anything special= , except I have firefox 5 and grub now hides old kernels. Otherwise looks th= e same.
Chromebooks
May-11, 2011 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-kind-of-computer-chromebook.html in case you missed it all. So that Cr-48 is finally coming out or at least the OS on actual hardware. My notes so far: The price of the netbooks from Acer and Samsung (2 venders already!!) ? I guess the low end wifi only perhaps $250? And what will likely be overlooked is this quote: "Even with dedicated IT departments, businesses and schools struggle with the same complex, costly and insecure computers as the rest of us. To address this, we=E2=80=99re also announcing Chromebooks for Business and Education. This service from Google includes Chromebooks and a cloud management console to remotely administer and manage users, devices, applications and policies. Also included is enterprise-level support, device warranties and replacements as well as regular hardware refreshes. Monthly subscriptions will start at $28/user for businesses and $20/user for schools." http://www.google.com/chromebook/business-education.html You realize that $20 a month per kid might feel like a lot of money, but $120 a year per kid for a school that wants every kid to have a laptop? That is dirt cheap. Actually dirt can be $$. It must be much cheaper than the current solutions out there. I would guess most school districts that do the one laptop per kid are already paying ~$300 per year per kid for the same services. Google trying to get this market to get them all later? Yall's thoughts?
Ubuntu 11.04, Unity and the "Desktop haters" (like me)
April-13, 2011 by: Sean Brewer
From: Sean Brewer ------------------------------------------------------ Unity has been the default in Ubuntu Netbook Edition since 10.10 and it is * terrible*. I gave it a chance, but switched back to Gnome after about a week and haven't used it since. It's just way too sluggish and seemingly unstable compared to Gnome, which isn't too quick itself. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: > For those of you ignorant of REAL life excitement: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta is > OUT!!! > Oh, boy... :) > The part that I hate about this frequent releases, is that they are > consistently so much better, that I *HAVE* to upgrade. > The part that I love about this frequent releases, is that they are > consistently so much better, that I *WANT* to upgrade (or do I?). > My first Ubuntu installation ever (I believe to recall) was 5.04 (Yes, I am > *THAT* old!) > I remember that it blew my socks off, when all I had to compare it to was > the Red Hat of the time. It was orders of magnitude better than the best > Red Hat, Suse, Slackware or (fill in your distro of choice) of the time. > And it was, in short and above all: USABLE! > From then on, it became a love/hate relationship. At the beginning I tried > both, flat Ubuntu (Gnome) and Kubuntu (KDE). > At the end I settled for KDE mostly because I could not put up with the > (unavoidable and depressible ugly!) brown Ubuntu motif. > KDE was not only blue and soothing, it also behaved more like the M$ stuff > that I was used to play with at the time. > And so I tugged my happy KDE life for few years, testing and ditching the > ugly Gnome every so often and finding specific uses for low power machines > running XFCE and lately LXDE. > Until one day... > One day I found that KDE was getting "so helpful", that it was constantly > busy being "helpful" while constantly ignoring the attention I craved. They > (KDE) installed all this indexes and daemons and hidden processes that > rendered the performance of the machine borderline unusable (sounds > familiar?) unless you're were running your "Desktop" on a Craig's > supercomputer. > Beyond my budget and beyond my patience... > So one day some year-and-a-half ago I took another hard look at Ubuntu... > And I pleasantly found out that they had diluted the horrible brown and I > could easily manage the interface (look at a recent Mac ? ). > I am not sure if I got smarter (highly unlikely) or they dumbed down the > interface (entirely possible), but I could actually work with it intuitively > (or, as I do mostly everything: without needing to THINK!) > And then I was fat, dumb and happy again (mostly dumb and fat) > And I installed Ubuntu to all my friends and family that I help with > computers, and they too were fat, dumb and happy (mostly happy, some fat) > And life went on... > For a geek that ignores many of the "creature comforts" of a GUI in favor > of doing "things" on terminals (like REAL men do! ;-), I regularly become > inconvenienced when the GUI makes decisions for me. For instance, just try > to install an IP address on a network adapter without the GUI in Ubuntu! > So the "new" Ubuntu is (almost) out. > And as always, I think of upgrading, but in this instance I am not that > sure... > You see, now Ubuntu is using "Unity" as the "Desktop" environment. > It's GOT to be important, because even PCWorld and Znet *ARE* talking about > it. > > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223843/four
UMid MBook
March-31, 2011 by: Stephen Kraus
From: Stephen Kraus ------------------------------------------------------ I am a big fan of netbooks, my biggest complaint though is that netbooks are becoming less of what the were originally meant to be: Ultra-portable laptops. More and more netbooks have simply become low end laptops. Compare the current Asus netbooks to their old Asus EEE PC 701 and 901 series netbooks for instance. However, I recently ran into a cool netbook, it isn't even really available in the US yet, but I'm buying one anyways: the UMid MBook It weighs less than half a pound, comes with either 1.1 Ghz or 1.2 Ghz Intel Atom, 512MB DDR, 16 or 32GB SSD, Windows XP, 4.8 Inch 1024x600 touchscreen, 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, 1.2MP Webcam, MicroSD Card slot, and a miniature keyboard. Also comes with an optional HSPA modem and SIM card slot. Its EXTREMELY tiny, smaller than the very old NEC Mobilepro Handheld PC I have which doesn't even have a 10th of the power this thing does. http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/umid-mbook-bz-two-fingers-on/ THIS is what netbooks should be, not entry level laptops!
On Topic - Augen netbook Hands On
March-25, 2011 by: Chad Smith
From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ Just some quick thoughts after getting my Augen GenBook 108 Netbook. http://www.chadwsmith.com/2011/03/augen-genbook-108-102-android-netbook.html Another thought - it doesn't boot very fast for a cellphone OS on a 800 Mhz netbook. Has anyone else gotten their's yet? - Chad W Smith "I like a man who's middle name is W." - President George W. Bush - February 10, 2003 bit.ly/gwb-dubya
Android netbook
February-27, 2011 by: Ed King
From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ I just installed Android 2.2 on the $100 CVS/Sylvania netbook. It was so easy, even a caveman could do it. Android2.2 for WM8505 Arm netbook http://devio.us/~nextvolume/via
dalton hamfest was...
February-26, 2011 by: Ed King
From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ ....ok. lots of booths... I'm guessing 200+. Got there at 8:20, left at 9:45. I know exactly what kind of old crap I'm looking for so I'm not the kinda guy who has to stop at every booth and get all touchy feely. Plus my wife was with me and these hamfests aren't her cup 'o tea, causing her to crack a few barbs, such as "this stuff is like twitter for old folks". lots of overpriced laptops and lcds, but none of the stuff I like to collect, except for one APF Fun Pong console (a different model than the one I already have). Sorry Stephen, no EEE pc, altho I did see an Augden netbook that looked exactly like my $100 Sylania netbook... but for the $80 price tag, hell, might as well buy a new one with a warranty. All in all, it was a fun experience... well, for me. My wife threatens to drag me to a Barbie convention.
OT: is it reasonable to put Win 7 Premium on a 2 gig net book?
February-24, 2011 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I'm shopping for a family member and keep finding Win 7 Premium netbooks . Even with 2 gigs isn't that a heavy load?