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Asus eee PC (LInux) | Fix WPA Wireless Connection | Install Updates

Info:
The Asus eee PC (Linux) uses Xandros Linux. Installing and updating programs is done via “repositories”.
There’s a file which specifies which repositories to use. By default, these are the ASUS repositories.

Firstly, get yourself connected to the internet via a wired connection.

Now fire-up a terminal window. Work > File Manager > Tools > Terminal.
This will give you a command line with a “/home/user>” prompt.

Do this:
/home/user>  sudo apt-get update

Wait until it’s finished, and then do this:

/home/user> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will take about 5 minutes.

Then type “exit”, and reboot the machine.Disconnect the LAN cable.

Now log in and hit the “Wireless Network” button under the “Internet” tab. Select your wireless connection, enter the WPA key, and connect. You may also want to select the “connect at boot” option on the far-right drop down.

That’s it. You’ll now find that you have a number of options in the “Update Programs” option under the “Settings” tab. Update everything. Especially the Anti-Virus. (It’ll take a while..)


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Asus eee PC (LInux) | Restore Factory Defaults

** PLEASE NOTE – THIS WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA **

I can’t believe how FAST (1.5 minutes), and easy this is..
Firstly, you need to know that the eee pc has a restore partition built-in, so you don’t need to faff about with Cds, DVDs or USB sticks. All you need to do is trigger the restore procedure.

On boot-up, keeping pressing F9. You should then get a boot menu with three options. Option 3 is “Restore Factory Settings”. Select it, and hit enter. Now say yes to anything it asks. When finished, it’ll reboot.
Enter a new username and password (twice).

That’s it. Honest.

Now you will want to install updates..

* What? F9 doesn’t work?
On boot-up, select F2. Switch OFF silent boot. Switch OFF quick boot. Save settings.
Now reboot and try F9 again. Sorted.


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Asus eee pc (linux)

I acquired an old eee pc 4g recently. Needed some bits, which I have now sourced.
However, I couldn’t get it to connect to my talktalk wireless broadband. 🙁

The problem appears to be the WPA2 encryption on the router. It works fine for the MSI netbook, and even the allfine wince (ouch) machine. But not the eee pc.

The solution appears to be a BIOS update, available from ASUS, which will require using the wired connection. Which DOES work, I’ve tried it. However, I stupidly tried the “update software” icon on the desktop, and now all updates are greyed-out.

A bit of digging later, I found LOADS of useful info on the web. Going to try manually updating the machine, and I don’t expect too much bother.

All I need then are filezilla (which I KNOW is available for eee pcc, and a source code editor in the style of crimson editor. Unfortunately, not available on Linux.. Any suggestions, anyone?

Talking to one of my (day-job) colleagues, I discovered that he used two eee pcs (Windows) to run the entire musical performance at a recent charity event, both machines running the fulll version of Sibelius! Impressive..
Apparently, FOUR people asked where the “orchestra” were.. 🙂
They even had a conductor, conducting the eee pcs…. classic.


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SEO TWEAKS

A week or so ago, I replaced “all-in-one-seo” with “ultimate seo” on all my wordpress sites.
Didn’t change any settings.

Google analytics says that my traffic increased by 140%, 30%, and 56% on these sites.

I went and twiddled with the settings on Friday, and they’re all showing a big drop. 🙁


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Supercars For Sale – New Features

www.supercars-for-sale.com

A little while ago, I added manufacturer profile pages, but these were only linked to from the “profiles” navigation link. I have now added automatic hotlinks on each RSS post

It works like this,: as a new RSS post is created, a custom field called profile_page is set with whatever the correct profile page is for that feed. Eg “Audi”  In the main-index template, there is a piece of php that uses the custom field to build a link to the profile page.

So an Audi post has a link that says “Click here for the Audi profile page..”.
If there’s no value set, the link doesn’t appear. Neat.

The profile pages now feature related ebay listings via the newly-installed Wordbay plugin. No, not the one from wordpress.org. That’s obsolete. This is the new one, available only to members of thewordbay.com

(I am an ACTIVE member of thewordbay.com forum..)


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Backup Problems at Jab Web Solutions

Prior to upgrading WordPress, I always back-up my files and databases.
My last backup was Monday, so I thought I’d take a backup before the upgrade.

However, the backup at Jab Web ran extremely slowly, and then stalled at 85%.

So I made the decision to just “go for it”, knowing that I had a complete backup from Monday, and could easily restore anything posted since then.

Fortunately, all went well. No Thanks to Jab Web Solutions (again)..


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WordPress Upgrade

Upgraded all my sites to WordPress 3.0.5 today.
No problems encountered, either at Jab Web, or Unlimited.

Took the opportunity to have a tidy-up on the plugins as well.
Deleted all useless inactive stuff, and upgraded everything apart from Wordbay.

The wordbay version on WordPress.org is NOT the latest. The latest is only available to members of www.thewordbay.com


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Sites down (again) – Jab Web Solutions | Unscheduled Downtime

All three of my sites hosted by Jab Web Solutions are down again this morning.
www.nervejam.com
www.quirkycars.net
www.supercars-for-sale.com
No message from their support people.
Would they have told me about it, or hoped that I wouldn’t notice?

Yesterday, I was doing backups of these sites (files and database). It took literally hours. This is NOT normal.
I also did backups at Unlimited. Ok, so the databases are not as big yet, but they were instant.

Now, I don’t like the idea of all eggs in one basket, BUT it’s looking like I’ll be shifting all my stuff to Unlimited before the Jab hosting runs out.. and since they use EXACTLY the same control panel (PLESK), then the only difference will be cost (lower) and speed (faster).. Win Win..


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Mobile Access to Websites.

Now that I can get my WordPress sites 100% functional (php safe mode off, fast cgi on), I’ve revisited the Mobile issue.

I’ve now implemented WordPress Mobile Pack on all but one of my sites (Advertising obligations on that one..)

It’s excellent. It detects your mobile device, and serves up the mobile version instead of the desktop. It even has a mobile admin theme.. There’s an option to use m.yoursite.com as well. May have to look into that..


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New-Style Posts

I’ve been experimenting with the post styles on some of the sites.
(I got the idea from www.johnfoxxandthemaths.com)
The idea is that each post has the Category (or tag) as a prefix.
For example, a “news” item would be “News – The world ends tomorrow”
My best example of this on www.nervejam.com. I’ve used a different class to highlight the Prefix. Looks really good.  It became necessary, as so many posts were being syndicated from the OMD site, without mentioning OMD. Well they do now!

I’ve done something similar on www.synteknik.com, but as this is a more minimal theme, I’ve left the styling alone.

Best of all, it’s really easy. In it’s simplest form, it’s a copy-and-paste job. Copy the category bit, and paste it into the line that displays the title.
I’ve now done it with three different themes. And one of those is a weird one..
Simples.


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