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Asus selling iMac clone with netbook core
Nov 5th
I’m sure everyone knows those design-award-winning Apple iMac computers that look like just a flat panel LCD and keyboard standing on your desk, but contain a whole macintosh… Now Asus has realized the advantages of such a design and is selling a computer-inside-an-LCD too. The “Asus eeeTop ET1602″ has about the same specs as the average eeePC 1000H netbook (making guesses about the interior of this device very easy), namely intel Atom N270 clocked to 1.6GHz, 533MHz Frontside Bus, 1GB DDR2 RAM, the rather weak Intel 945G graphics chipset, 160GB SATA-II harddisk (spinning at only 5400rpm), connectivity is provided by 802.11 b/g/n wifi, bluetooth and 1000MBit LAN, the thing has a 1.3MP webcam and built-in stereo microphone – and so far, I could just as well have read the description from the package of my eee1000H instead, without any difference…
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Asus selling iMac clone with netbook core
howTo: Jaunty Jackalope with custom netbook kernel
Nov 5th
Now it has been over a week since I installed Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” on my netbook, and in the meantime I’ve been working on customizing things to my needs. One main tweak consisted of replacing the default “2.6.28-8-generic” kernel with the more appropriate “2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc” kernel compiled by Adam McDaniel over at array.org , main reason was merely the unpleasant sound of the word “generic” to me, since this “generic” kernel was working quite well – there was no obvious need to replace it. But I still thought it would be nice to have the core of the operating system customized to my hardware.
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howTo: Jaunty Jackalope with custom netbook kernel
USB mail notifier – final hardware and software revision
Nov 5th
Over the past few weeks I’ve refined the design of my LED message notifier device that has been the topic of my last few articles. For those of you who aren’t familiar with how it works or what is meant: the notifier device inquestion is capable of lighting up a multi-color LED in the corresponding color when/if messages are received. It indicates several types of messages: instant messages received via Pidgin (green LED/purple LED), emails and RSS/Atom feeds received via Mozilla Thunderbird (red LED), and it also informs about new tweets on my Twitter account (turquoise LED)
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USB mail notifier – final hardware and software revision
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