Installing Wheezy on my eeepc 701

My eeepc 701 4G has been with me since 2008 each and every single day giving me the best of what it's got. No wonder I love it so much.

I have tested Wheezy on it for a whole week using a custom built debian-live image (without installer). It works flawlessly using full persistence. The only problem is that everytime I turn on the machine I have to reinstall Dropbox because it does not seem to work fine with cow (This is just a wild guess. The problem might be anything else.)

This afternoon I'm going to install Wheezy on a mini sd flash card of 16 GB I bought yesterday using the regular debian installer. The procedure is quite simple.

1.- Wipe grub from the master boot record of the usb stick I'm going to use as installation media. (This is just because I have been playing with siduction on that usb pendrive for a couple of days. It boots the iso using grub.)

  # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1 # X is the device letter

2.- Download the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso (227M) and dd it to the pendrive:

   $ dd if=debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX

3.- Boot the eeepc from the usb pendrive. Select expert install and there you go!!!

New linux counter.

http://counter.li.org/ is going to be replaced by http://linuxcounter.net/ I already transferred my account from one place to the other and updated my machines information. This is the new image signature I got: https://linuxcounter.net/cert/388768.png


In case you can't follow that link for any reason. I upload the image here as well.

nvlc - ncurses vlc

Last week I discovered nvlc installed on one of my Debian laptops. It was in fact installed in all my Debian boxes. I scratched my head at first because I didn't remember ever having installed it and what is more, I discovered that it isn't even a package. It comes with vlc player.

Well, I played with it for a while just to find out that with nvlc you can do almost everything you do with vlc. It can for instance, write to the framebuffer so you can watch video. What is more, having a curses interface makes it easy to use. It was nice and that was it. However today I thought about a great use that I can give to it.

I'm right now sitting at my eeepc *yumi*, but my music collection is in my main desktop *odd*. From here I ssh into the box and launch *nvlc*. Then I can select the songs I want to listen to, raise the volume and do other things, as if this small netbook were  a remote.

Awesome isn't it?. nvlc, welcome to my pool.

Here is a screenshot:

Minimal desktop.

This weekend I have been configuring a rather small, relatively minimal desktop using openbox. I have also installed a bunch of applications to work with this gorgeous window manager. Among them: gmrun, wbar, tint2, conky ... I have also set Midori as default browser. In my first tests I installed rox-filer, but since I intend to thoroughly try rox desktop someday I removed rox-filer and I left the good old midnight commander as file manager.

I need to remember (for future reference):

• Openbox: create .config/openbox/autostart file (nm-applet and all other apps. Launch wbar -pos < top >)
  
• Edit wbar /usr/share/wbar/dot.wbar (icons and commands)
  
• gmrun: Edit openbox keybindings in .config/openbox/rc.xml
  
  

   <keybind key="A-F2">
      <action name="Execute">
      <command>gmrun</command>
       </action>
    </keybind>
  

Here is a screenshot for you to sneak a peek (Screenshot taken with scrot):

New gpg key.

My current gpg key (hosted on a pgp server) expires tomorrow. I created if for a year because I didn't know if I was going to use it at all or not.

To tell you the truth. I have never used it, at least that I remember. Anyway, I think that having a key is very handy and it does not do any harm. I think I should start using it in my e-mails.

This new key does not expire and it is hosted at

hkp://keys.gnupg.net

You can also find it in my Profile

pharc v 2.0 released.

Today I released pharc 2.0. pharc is a script that organizes your phlog posts on a yearly basis.

pharc is based on mkphlog written by octotep. The reason for releasing v 2.0 is that mkphlog has been updated to v.0.2 so I needed to adapt my script to the changes.

You can read my phlog post on the release of mkphlog v.0.2 in my phlog here (gopher link)

You can read my phlog post on the release of pharc v.2.0 in my phlog here (gopher link)

pharc is version controlled using git. You can find the script v.2.0 here

If you're interested in the .deb package it is available in two places:

a. In my gopher hole (gopher link)
b. here: pharc 2.0-1 all.deb


The changelog is:

• Updating for mkphlog v.0.2
• Adding version number 2.0
• Adding license (2012)

Enjoy!!!

To .deb or not to .deb, that's the question...

Hey, what did you expect? I'm a poet, not a coder

This short blog post is just to inform you that I am writing a new tutorial on how to build a .deb package in just five minutes with equivs