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Mini craft room


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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, freshly installed


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I just freshly installed Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" on my Compaq Mini netbook, and I like it a lot. Way more than Windoze XP which was pre-installed (and still is, I installed Ubuntu onto a new partition). Go home, Windows, go home.

This is the first time I’ve installed any kind of Linux, and the first time I’m using it out of my own interest and on my own machine.

The installation was a little complicated, but mainly due to the fact that I don’t have an optical drive in that machine (and thus had to boot and install from a USB stick), and that I had problems resizing the pre-existing Windows XP partition on the hard disk due to a small glitch in the filesystem which had to be fixed first. Both these problems are not Ubuntu’s fault.

If you have a PC with a CD-ROM drive, basically all you have to do is download the Ubuntu CD-ROM image (~700 MB), burn it, and then boot the PC from that CD-ROM. You can then install Ubuntu right from within Ubuntu running on your PC from the CD, including re-partitioning your hard disk. The installation is quite straight-forward: the only things you have to do is set your preferred language, your keyboard layout, your computer’s name (for the network), and your username and password. All in all, this took under half an hour on my machine. (Add to that the time for downloading the CD-ROM image and burning the CD.)

What about the partitioning: it is necessary to create a logical volume to enable the computer to launch from Ubuntu instead of Windows. You can’t just copy the data onto the hard-disk and then run it, this won’t work. Instead, it’s done by basically splitting up the space on your hard-disk and dividing the physical hard-disk up into several logical hard-disks ("partitions") – i. e. making it appear to your computer as if you had more than one hard-disk. One of these will already contain your Windows system, and the other will contain Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution, for that matter). Of course, all of this is only necessary if you intend to keep your existing Windows system and don’t want to replace it with Linux altogether.

MediaLounge USB VoIP Phone


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I bought this at Verkkokauppa for 30 €. They market it as a "MediaLounge USB VoIP Phone", supporting Skype and other VoIP applications. The supplied mini-CD did not work in the Mac Mini slot drive(!), and out of the box, it wouldn’t quite work. It took a great deal of research to determine that it is actually a Yealink USB-P1K. On their website, I found an OS X application that made it possible to use it with Skype on my Mac. During the research (bouncing through a Russian web forum by Googling on some weird numbers on the back of the handset), I saw that Vivo Phone markets the exact same gadget as VivoGO!, selling for ,95 (around 80 €). Finally, I fired up the "System Information" tool in Mac OS that via the USB device tree told me that the manufacturer was Yealink. Anyway, now it works fine, so now I’m just waiting for my SkypeIn to get activated, so that I can receive calls on my new Stockholm phone number. Meanwhile, you can always Skype me using Skype ID "pajp4711".

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