Category: Gadgets
ASUS EEE - new Xandros repository
January 29th, 2008As you can notice, I built new repository for Xandros ASUS EEE distribution. It has some Croatian specific packages as well as some interesting packages which you cannot find elsewhere. So, for example you can install Keepassx which is Password Manager I… more »
ASUS EEE - few tricks for beginners ;)
January 29th, 2008As ASUS EEE is available in Croatia stores now, I'll give few tips (and no tricks) for beginners with ASUS EEE in Croatia.
Probably you noticed that you cannot select Croatian keyboard layout. What you need to do is edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find f… more »
Debugging SquashFS and tools
January 29th, 2008Recently, I was playing with squashfs and with its SquashFS LZMA companion. I hit the segmentatin fault while I was building squashfs from ASUS EEE read only image. I'll try to explain my debug process, so people who are not familiar can follow (and lear… more »
Compiling kernel modules for Xandros ASUS EEE
January 28th, 2008As lot of people asked me how I managed to compile kernel modules for Xandros default distribution on ASUS EEE, here's explanation.
First, I copied all files (except /proc, /sys, ...) from ASUS EEE to my laptop. I used tar and netcat for that. After t… more »
Making ASUS EEE more useful
January 23rd, 2008ASUS EEE is becoming more and more popular. As such, there's more and more modifications and support for it. eee.ko module is one of them. eee.ko consists of a kernel module to change the eee's FSB speed, allowing the CPU to run at its full 900Mhz. eee.k… more »
First 24 hours with ASUS EEE
January 13th, 2008ASUS EEE doesn't have Bluetooth by default, but it has bluetooth packages lying around in default installation. So, I plugged in my Bluetooth USB dongle and changed few parameters. After few minutes, I got my bluetooth connection working with my phone, N… more »
ASUS EEE - first impressions
January 13th, 2008Yesterday, we bought ASUS EEE. It's cheap and light subnotebook running Linux (specifically, Xandros distribution). It has Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.Org, Skype, Pidgin/Gaim, Amarok, Smplayer already on his solid state drive.
When we bought it… more »
WAP 2.0 security: phishing issues
February 9th, 2007Currently, I foresee big issue with phishing on WAP 2.0 platform because user cannot see (easily!) current URL, so even One time passwords (popularly called OTPs) can be stolen via phishing attack and used by the attacker (especially if attacker owns WAP… more »
Programming NXT in Linux
September 27th, 2006Programming Lego Mindstorms NXT under Linux is not trivial. Lego original NXT software is available for Windows only. I tried to run it under WINE withous success. Anyway, I don't like that LEGO graphical programming because I need to think twice (how… more »
Lego Mindstorms NXT
September 1st, 2006Slashdot talks about what guys at Ars Technica thinks about new NXT. If you are Linux guy, you can find some useful information on Bricxcc homepage. In Linux, you can program you robot with Next Byte Codes which looks like assembly language syntax which… more »
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