{"id":2584,"date":"2008-01-29T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2008\/01\/29\/my-brand-new-eee-pc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T11:31:00","slug":"my-brand-new-eee-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2008\/01\/29\/my-brand-new-eee-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"my brand-new EEE-PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A little late (but better later than never<\/q>) I got myself an EEE-PC.
\n First and important thing to do
\n was to tell it to talk to me in english,
\n because I hate it, when computers talk to me in denglish<\/q>
\n (as this awful modern mixture of german and english is called,
\n and yes, of course, I use it myself in spoken language and I hate it,
\n but at least for written language I insist on avoiding it),
\n so how to modify the default locale?
\n And pls don’t you just modifiy \/etc\/default\/locale<\/q>!\n <\/p>\n

\n$ sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8\n    <\/pre>\n
\n      I found wiki.eeeuser.com<\/a> and forum.eeeuser.com<\/a>, most valuable!!!
\n      Really!!!
\n      Go to the wiki and make the best of it!!!\n    <\/p>\n
\n      I added a few Xandros package repositories, that got listed there.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      I found two package managers: synaptic (GUI!!!) and aptitude (ncurses based),
\n      obviously you will always have to call them through sudo<\/q>.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      Sometimes you will nevertheless want to install a package on the command line,
\n      this is how it looks:\n    <\/p>\n
\n$ sudo apt-get install YOUR_PACKAGE\n    <\/pre>\n
\n      These were a few of the packages I installed first this way:
\n      openssh-server, nxml-mode, rcs.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      Actually the init script, that got installed with the openssh-server package is somehow flawed:\n    <\/p>\n
\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/ssh # it crashes and core dumps (almost)\n    <\/pre>\n
\n      So I have to run this instead for being able to access my EEE from my network:\n    <\/p>\n
\n$ sudo \/usr\/sbin\/sshd\n    <\/pre>\n
\n      I certainly also installed GNU emacs,
\n      but I did so using one of the package managers.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      I tried the descriptions for using bluetooth,
\n      and it looks like it works,
\n      but when I tried to connect to the Internet via bluetooth and one of my UMTS phones as modem,
\n      it didn’t work.
\n      But I successfully connected to the Internet, when I USB-wired that UMTS phone to the EEE.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      The EEE-PC seriously comes with an up-to-date and updatable Firefox,
\n      and I installed Adblock Plus<\/q> (and its most important filter subscriptions, so all the obnoxious ads stay away from my screen),
\n      Sage<\/q> (my RSS reader),
\n      and GMarks<\/q> (so I can access Google bookmarks).\n    <\/p>\n
\n      Initially the Music Manager<\/q> refused to play my MP3-s,
\n      but I installed a few MP3-related packages through synaptic and everything was fine.
\n      Now I can play my MP3-s (that reside on a fat USB disk attached to my Linux NEO box)
\n      through my home WLAN,
\n      and I overly enjoy it.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      Of course I switched to the Full Desktop<\/q> aka  Advanced Mode<\/q> in the meantime.\n    <\/p>\n
\n      I followed the Multiuser mode HOWTO<\/a>,
\n      and now I have to login before X starts up,
\n      and user is not the only user any longer.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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