I’ve been playing with my Aspire One for a few weeks now. I installed a wireless card (DW1390) that is compatible with Mac OS X, upped the RAM to 1.5gig and installed Mac OS X and Ubuntu as a dual boot situation so I can have the both of best worlds. But, until today I’ve had a difficult time getting the screen to record all the 3D glory. Well I’ve fixed all that with the help of Google and the Ubuntu Forums.

Here is a picture of the desktop as it stands “right now” (Yes I made it look like the Mac OS):

Ubuntu Aspire One Desktop

Now if this works right, you will be able to download this (3.3mb) file and see my desktop working. No sound yet, that’s something that bothers me, but it is in work’ish kinda. Maybe I’ll toss some music on it or something. I don’t know:

Aspire One Video (use VLC to watch it).

So far I must say the Aspire One (By Acer) is an AWESOME package. Once I got Windows XP off; it ran much faster, seems to pick up wireless easy peasy with the new DW1390 card and other than the screen resolution (1024×600) I would say this little notebook is the ideal travel companion.

Ever since I updated my network to include 3 routers my Wii has been grumpy. It continually included a few extra 0s after you input the settings. (I do not use DHCP).

You would enter the numbers

IP: 192.168.0.37

Router: 192.168.0.1

DNS: 192.168.0.1

and it would turn them into:

IP: 192.168.000.037

Router: 192.168.000.001

DNS: 192.168.000.001

This will not do! So finaly what I did was to NOT conferm settings and just press on until it made3 me test my settings. Low and behold they worked, but not if I confermed my settings first.

So a word to the wise when using a Wii with Wifi on a network with static IP addresses “Don’t conferm” your settings, just click the next arrow until you’ve looped through the settings and continue.

TTFN,

Justin

So; here are the screenshots of my MythBuntu computer in our living room. Each shot leads to the next. I navigated from start up to right before the movie starts (In this case it’s my favorite science type show “Cosmos”). I tried to screenshot the video, but it’all just blue.

Cheers;

Main Menu

Video Folders & Files Listing

Documenteries Folder

Scrolled Down for Cosmos

Inside Cosmos Folder

Episode 1 of Cosmos Series

I still haven’t figured out where you go to enter all that metadata (Runtime, Year, User etc etc) but I’m sure it is just in the menu somewhere. The next step from here is to simple hit the play button on the remote and watch all fo Carl Sagan’s goodness circa early – late 1980′s.

MythBuntu also does music, images, the web, weather, Movie Trailers and more. This is just the tip fo the iceburg for what this operating system can do.

Enjoy,

Justin