Phrank's Ubuntu Blog

Got my EEE PC T91SA tablet netbook today.
Throwing Ubuntu 9.10 on it - Will update on how to get things working!

Video (Intel GMA 500): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378746&highlight=gma+500
Touch: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:KbvsEge9UmgJ:setupguides.blogspot.co...

Just sold my older EEE PC 701SD and bought a refurbished EEE PC T91SA on ebay.

The T91 has a tablet mode and touchscreen - I'm gonna throw Ubuntu 9.10 on it, of course, and use it for class/ebook/browsing

I'll update this post once I get it and install Ubuntu with recommended apps for touchscreen

So my Dad's computer had a few Trojans on it - Such a pain, so much so, that he install Ubuntu!

But He still needs XP, so here's how to remove those nasty viruses with ClamAV

This would work from a Ubuntu liveCD as well, so you could just boot to a CD, and run these commands

Install ClamAV

Update Virus definitions

Find Windows Partition - You want the partition that is NTFS - That's the root windows partition - /dev/sda2 in this case

Just got a couple of old ZipIt wireless messengers off of e-bay.

Hoping to put a basic install of linux on them and use them for home automation.

fun, fun!

I have my front yard light connected to a outletbox controlled via a LPT port. And it's hooked up the the rest of the home automation system.

I was just having cron turn on and off the light a specified times. But a little script and a bit of help from a government website, the light turns off at sunrise and back on at sunset.

It's here! A Gnome Desktop theme save / restore solution.

Phrank's Theme Saver lets you save the following to a tar.bz2 archive, and restore it all with a simple script!
Saves: Icon, Mouse, GTK, Metacity, Sound themes - Splash and Background images - Panel Settings - Font Settings (But not font files)

You can send the archive to a friend, and they can theme their desktop with a few clicks! Works great for switching between themes as well.

Here's the idea - Have a dedicated computer/kiosk that displays the latest home automation notifications.
It's pretty simple - Use a full screen webbrowser for display - write a .cgi script that updates each time it's run.

I've been using Bonjour chat for Home automation updates - When someone calls, a chat box will appear with the caller id info.
But Bonjour chat isn't working in Ubuntu 9.04 - It crashes Pidgin.

So why not use the slick new notification system?

See it at http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMega

54 digital I/O pins. What would you do with that many pins!?! Or, more appropriately, what couldn't you do? ;-P

I want one!