I'm bringing the Acer Aspire One running it's stock Linpus Linux in a mercilessly hacked up state. I think I'll be able to get it on the Library's wifi.... using iwconfig....
Then I'll demo Acer's factory restore DVD, and you can all play with the thing freshly reloaded and working. At the next meeting, I'll have Ubuntu with their netbook thing on there, and Fedora 10 after that. If you have anything else you'd like to see on a netbook, chime in now.
I also at this point have Fedora 10 running on my laptop in its entirety. If anyone wants a sneak peak at what F10 will look like on its release, here's your chance to see it.
If anyone had any distros they want to install, now's the time to ask if you want me to bring a disc ready to install from.
Also, I thought I'd share a package I discovered a couple days ago called clive. clive takes as an argument, a youtube hyperlink, and swiftly downloads an flv or mp4 to your home directory. Supposedly it supports other sites as well. yum install clive. http://clive.sourceforge.net/ Then you can play it in vlc and probably other players, without ever installing flash. There's another script floating around out there that lets you play a youtube vid directly in mplayer or vlc, but you can't always stop and reverse and stuff since its streaming.
There's another program I really wanted called pytube, a python gtk+ app that turns a youtube vid into an ogg file, but its author's site seems to be completely gone now.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
I'm bringing the Acer Aspire One running it's stock Linpus Linux in a mercilessly hacked up state. I think I'll be able to get it on the Library's wifi.... using iwconfig....
The Acer One is an incredible netbook. I'm running Gentoo on mine and love it.
If you get a chance to play with one of the latest 2.6.27 kernels, you might be able to show what the wireless card can do. The Atheros chip has a powerful output and unusually wide frequency range.
-=Duane http://www.dattaway.net <--linux powered webcam
I'll second that. The closed-source madwifi module module that traditionally powered Atheros chipsets has been blamed for some of the highest-ranking kernel lockups by kerneloops.org. ath5k and ath9k have now surpased the closed driver in features and stability; I'm using 2.6.27's atk5k on my desktop. My desktop is finally stable, as a result.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Duane Attaway dattaway@dattaway.netwrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
I'm bringing the Acer Aspire One running it's stock Linpus Linux in a
mercilessly hacked up state. I think I'll be able to get it on the Library's wifi.... using iwconfig....
The Acer One is an incredible netbook. I'm running Gentoo on mine and love it.
If you get a chance to play with one of the latest 2.6.27 kernels, you might be able to show what the wireless card can do. The Atheros chip has a powerful output and unusually wide frequency range.
-=Duane http://www.dattaway.net <--linux powered webcam
Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Luke Dashjr wrote:
If you get a chance to play with one of the latest 2.6.27 kernels, you might be able to show what the wireless card can do. The Atheros chip has a powerful output and unusually wide frequency range.
Can it xmit FM radio?
From what I have seen, it might be possible, but in the microwave band.
So far, I've seen it operate from 2.412 to 2.732GHz. The latest git kernel code has some interesting IO maps of what's inside. I see no reason why it can't operate as a Software Defined Radio (gnuradio!)
-
Billy Crook -
Duane Attaway -
Jason D. Clinton -
Luke Dashjr