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Sat, 06 Mar 2010
We were at Barnes and Noble last night after a rather good meal and Soho Japanese and I picked up some interesting books to browse through. One was on how to create iPhone apps with the stuff of webs (html, css, and javascript) and I was almost inspired to create an app for the iPhone. Also, I looked through the Definitive Guide to SSH and was reminded again how little I know about unix and cli apps. Though, in my defense, I might used ssh in other ways without knowing it (shielded by the some GUI).
I like the updating of this place via ssh because I feel like I have the speakeasy access to my web server. I suppose I could just use ftp, but ssh just seems more cooler.
2010 Mar 06 [/eeepc] permanent link
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
So, with this newest release of Ubunut 9.10 comes the cloud for backup of data from the desktop or eeePC. Then, there's access from other computers and that's not a bad idear, you know?
2009 Nov 05 [/eeepc] permanent link
Fri, 02 Oct 2009
For some reason the wi-fi wasn't connecting very well (or at all). So, I had the great idea of reloading the whole she-bang and now, stuff seems to be jerky.
More later.
2009 Oct 02 [/eeepc] permanent link
Fri, 11 Sep 2009
First of all, I need to look over the documentation for ttytter and understand the doc for the program. Second of all, also need to look over the mutt documentation. Enough said.
2009 Sep 11 [/eeepc] permanent link
Tue, 08 Sep 2009
So, again I'm dumping the default OS for some more flexibility and I've decided on the eeebuntu project (for some reason I thought the development on it was slowed down). Apparently that wasn't true and I've installed the latest version of the eeePC. I'm liking that I'm getting up-to-date software and not stuff that has been collecting mold for about 2 years. Let's see how long I last.
2009 Sep 08 [/eeepc] permanent link
Wed, 19 Aug 2009
I loved using the Debian Eeepc OS, but I have to like the default OS because it works. Example: wi-fi workability. With the Debian variant, it simply doesn't connect with most free wi-fi spots (e.g. hotels and Panera), where the default OS with it's icky interface at least works.
So, I gave up on principle for consistency.
2009 Aug 19 [/eeepc] permanent link
Wed, 01 Jul 2009
Sometimes you stick with what you got
For some reason, I'm still thinking that I can do a little better with the eeePC OS. I'm liking the flexibility of the Debian version of eeePC. But one of my biggest complants is the inflexibility of the wifi (running Wicd). For some reason wifi works great at home, but whenever I'm on a free wifi at a hotel or Panera, I can never, never get connected.
I suppose I should check the FAQs file and boards for some type of tweak.
So, that's where I should head, eh?
2009 Jul 01 [/eeepc] permanent link
Wed, 06 May 2009
Installing vimoutliner correctly
One more time: so when you install the vimoutliner remember to use the cli for unarchieving the .gz command as outlined in the INSTALL file. Basically it's:
tar xzvf vimoutliner-0.3.x.tar.gz
For some reason, this is the better way to do things.
2009 May 06 [/eeepc] permanent link
Sat, 02 May 2009
Some customization to my debian-eeePC
So, as I've been tweaking the debian-eeePC, I'm needing to jot a few things here to remind me next time I have to install my desktop. So, here's the rundown:
Pretty happy with how things are shaping up again.
2009 May 02 [/eeepc] permanent link
Tue, 14 Apr 2009
Free Software Foundation Stickers
So, usually we allocate some monies to give toward charities of our own chosing and last year I decided to give some funds to FSF and the work they do on our behalf in "Free and in Freedom" in regard to computing and software.
Yesterday I got FSF-themed stickers in the mail and I have to say: I like stickers now that I have a laptop (well, the eeePC) to use as my backpack/locker to display my "personality."
2009 Apr 14 [/eeepc] permanent link
Wed, 18 Feb 2009
I'm trying, slowly, to remove myself from the wonderfulness of Google. Today, it's a really hard one: GeeMail. I like many things about GMail, especially the archiving feature where I can find old emails by searching. But recently, I'm back to not GTD with my email and just letting things hang around for awhile instead of acting on those tasks immediately.
So, I'm back to mutt.
For one thing, I'm able to just get through my email knowing that if I have deleted something that I really do need, I can get it through the website.
Also, mutt just fits my eeePC use (and screen). My hands stay on the keyboard and I can whiz through screens easily. In fact, much easier than Alpine (which seemed a bit slow on the eeePC).
Lastly, the set up was so easy this time.
Nice to take control of another area of my tech life.
2009 Feb 18 [/eeepc] permanent link
Tue, 03 Feb 2009
Getting vimoutliner to work again
I'm a fan of organizing information and for a while I used Dave Winer's OPML editor for lesson planning and other outlining stuff. But since I'm using Debian on the eeePC, I've switched over to an old standby: vimoutliner. It's built upon some of the folding features of vim 7 and I think I like the idea of trying to use one app for as many things as possible.
Vim allows me to fulfill this and keep to the plain text idea of making documents.
The issue that I ran into today was vim not recognizing the .otl file format and not rendering the outline with all of its indenting and color. I finally resolved the issue by downloading the most recent version (slightly old in software terms: 2005) and running the install.sh script.
Now, all is well.
2009 Feb 03 [/eeepc] permanent link
Fri, 30 Jan 2009
So, I'm in the #eeepc irc and I posed the question/statement that the Xandros distro that comes with the eeePC is a tad faster and stable than others.
"Nope," someone said.
And then I asked which one was better and they said "Debian."
So, I followed the directions over at DebianEeePC and I'm grooving to a new, snappy distro.
And, after reading what Mark Pilgrim is using on his system in the latest issue Linux Journal about his 2008 Essentials list. Here's what I've installed:
Pretty happy with how things are running and just getting used to the new set up.
2009 Jan 30 [/eeepc] permanent link
Tue, 27 Jan 2009
As I mentioned in an earlier post, seeing the vim plugin TwitVim in color on the terminal window is just nice, you know? And, here's a screen shot:
2009 Jan 27 [/eeepc] permanent link
Wed, 21 Jan 2009
Okay, once again I refreshed the system and did a clean install on the eeePC. I was getting a bit annoyed that my snownews wasn't working (I think it something to do with the gcc update I ran). So, once again, I'm remind myself that I don't need to add a bunch of software and extra stuff to the eeePC; I just need to keep the base stuff on and not have to make many customizations.
So, now things are fresh and zippy. And here are the extra things I've done:
- twitvim (twitter client in vim)
- vimoutliner (a favorite outliner for me)
- snownews
- curl (snownews and twitvim depend on this)
- alpine (nice email reader)
- updating the Full Destop (Advanced)
- ttytter (Perl script Twitter client)
And that's about it.
2009 Jan 21 [/eeepc] permanent link
Sat, 17 Jan 2009
So, it took awhile, but I finally figured out how to get my older version of vim to display color in program files and twitvim. I simply googled the question of "Vim not displaying colors" and I got this suggestion from Bram Moolenaar and the Vim manual itself and the first line that says that it all starts with this:
syntax enable
And it all worked on a perl script. So, I added a line in my .vimrc and now I finally have color when I run twitvim.
Another nice.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
I was getting tired of GoogleReader because of probably how much it did. Yes, it did all the things that anyone would want and yet, I felt overburdened by how it crowed my little eeePC screen. And, because I do a lot of my work at home on the eeePC, it made sense to find something on the commandline.
After struggling to get the opml file imported into snownews (actually, a few simple file with just the links), I was happy to weed through all the old feeds and. But, to my big surprise, I found a feature that made me very happy: a command to show all new headlines.
Nice.
Even though it isn't a real RiverOfNews view, still, I got a reading experience that I was looking for.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
So after getting an annoying message with some error with CUPS that kept me from running apline, I decided to do the Clean Install on the ol' eeepc. And, as before, the directions and the process of doing this is quite easy and well-documented.
So, here is what I did to make the eeePC run with the stuff I wanted.
- First, I did the usual things like adding the StartMenu button in Easy mode and then added the packages to activate the Advanced Mode as found in the eeeUser forums.
- Next, I installed a few programs that I use alot: vimtwit (a script for vim), snownews (RSS reader from the commandline), and curl (a most useful utility).
- Lastly, my bigger challenge of the day: Installing Alpine and then, configuring Apline for Gmail. These two sites made it clear and soon I was running Apline and changing the color scheme to make stuff go well.
A few notes: For some reason, twitvim seems to install a weird naming of twitvim into the plugins directory. This will show up when you install the script using
sudo vim twitvim.vba
You have to follow the error message and change the twitvim plugin to just twitvim.vba.
Another issue was with snownew's utility opml2snow which never did work properly for me. So, I just ran the script through perl:
perl opml2snow google.xml > urls
The renamed "google.xml" was the opml export from Settings in GoogleReader. I just grew tired of how much GReader showed and how difficult it was to actually read on the eeePC.
So, on that front, I'm happily zooming along with my refreshed eeePC and the CLI stuff to make things easier and reducing the GUI clutter.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
