wahlau's online hut

Just a quick post - below is a video i have captured to show how it works under my EeePC 901. It is just a minute long, including booting up (about 10-15 seconds) and starting Firefox (about 10 sec?).

a couple of weeks ago Xandros released the news that they are also into an "instant on" OS for netbooks. So i signed up for the beta, and a few days after the announced release date (well, i actually forgot about the sign up too :P) i got a mail to invite me to download it. It is actually available for everyone at download.com or tucows...

while reading the updates made by Sacha in Tapei regarding the latest ARM-based netbooks (with snapdragon chip), i suddenly start thinking the choice of OS on this platform. Since it is an arm-based system, most likely we will get linux variants running on it with perhaps customized specialized interfaces. For some prototype or first hand screenshot, take a look at the pictures taken by Sacha (German entry, but pictures and visual speak more than words :) ).

this is of course not 100% new thing. I am as usually a little slow, but i am glad i keep finding new and useful things available for Linux and FOSS.

finally took the time to tidy up my long-deserted online photo album. But the quest now is - remove unnecessary files, and reorganize them. I realise the good old gallery 1 web album made lots of *.sized.jpg and *.thumb.jpg, so going to every directory to remove them manually will take quite some time.

so i looked around for some CLi power. and i know even though it is simple for many of you there, i don't do that often so i have to relearn this :) it is at the end rather simple. my best find was to use find (he he a pun?). it does the job pretty well:

remember my attempt in getting the Sony Ericsson HBH DS 970 to work with my desktop? It was puzzling in February when i first got it, and i gave up trying since then. However since a few days i got a link from thoughtfix, and excitingly got bluetooth stereo working with the n800. yes, i can now start up a music player on the n800, and receive the sound via bluetooth on the DS 970. That is great for me, since i can basically have my handphone paired to the headset, while having the music still sent from the n800 simultaneously. neat.