I sorta got a working messaging system, as mentioned in my previous post. I'll FTP it to one of my servers and post the link back here. I have basketball practice tonight, though I planned to put together flippy and physically move roppie, my CS:S server. jlap has been up 22 days, which is great. Anyway, gonna have a little something to eat and go to practice.

So, I've had this idea of a personal messaging system. Sorta sounds stupid, but sounded cooler in my head. Update: See here: http://2500mhz.info/projekts/index.php?go=projView&prj=83 Need an account? Use the Contact page. Explanation: You sign up for an account (and thus can login later) and can talk to other people. So, its sorta like private messaging. Its more like an email than a IM chat. I thought of this while talking on MSN and needed to talk to people....but they were offline. Why download then run a IM client when you can do it online? w00t I say! Not sure how other users know there is other users, but whatever. Seems cool. In the end this looks like a 'private email' script. Shouldn't be too hard to build. Though, adding an API would be nice. All I can say is, oh well; I'm bored. -Gr3

Got a basketball tournament tomorrow and saturday, so I probably won't get anything done. About time I should be getting to bed, I'll post tomorrow or sunday.

Had a basketball tournament all weekend, so I finally get Sunday to my self. One thing that I noticed that was sorta cool (while at the hotel), is that they had a proxy server set up. You connect to their open wireless network, but you can't make any outgoing connections until you enter an access code (which directs you to 192.168.x.x). So, I went to the front desk and picked up an access code. Sorta smart, but why not have encryption on the signal? Anyway, I'm off to go do stuff today so I probably won't get a chance to code errr whatever.........

Yes, thats right! I've been doing a little more work on Web Host (web site hosting script) and planning on doing some free web hosting. Although I need to get my other server configured properly, I'll be using my own custom script. So far, the limits are: -500KB per account (WILL be changed) - Allowed file types (So far): .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .html, .htm - Blacklisted files types (So far): .php, .phtml, .php3, .php4, .php5, .exe, .js, .inc I still need to modify somethings first, allow CSS, maybe Javascript and update the members control panel (CP). Also, the URLs will be shorter. Instead of: www.example.com/members/username it will probably end up being: www.example.com/username I might be using a TLD, such as shareitup.net OR freehtmlhost.info (seems more fitting), or if that fails just a co.cc domain. What's weird is, all my external IP's on my network have all the same IP. I'm using some D-Link crap router, maybe I'll try another one. Anyway, I'm gonna see what I can do to my server, I'll post back tomorrow..ughhh after school.

Updated March 16 2009

Well, I thought I would post a tutorial on how I got Lenny working on my Eee, incase people are having problems. This will loosely be based on the Debian EeePC wiki and also this blog post, so this content is not 100% from me, only what worked. Just for a note, my EeePC is a 701 4GB (with camera)

Installation

Firstly, download the EeePC installer image here: http://eeepc.debian.net/debian/images/debian-eeepc.img You will need a USB flash drive, but I'm sure a SD card will work.

Now to copy the image onto your media choice: dd if=debian-eeepc.img of=/dev/#YOUR DEVICE# sync Now that that's done, plug your flash drive into your Eee, turn it on and hold the Escape key on bootup. Choose your flash drive and it will continue to boot. (Prior to this, I pluged in an ethernet cable; wireless is a choice but was unreliable for me).
The next few steps are self explanitory, such as filling in your country, username, password, etc. When it came to partitioning, I took out the swap parition and will add a swap file instead (read below). (Also, where it gets to the point where it asks you what packages to install, choose Standard system and Laptop then continue) After it has finished installing, remove your flash drive and boot into Lenny. Login with your username and pass.

Wireless

Now, when I first booted Lenny, wireless was not working for me. Things that I did: Turned on wireless, Function + F2 Run lsmod and saw if ath_pci was there If not, I ran modprobe ath_pci Still didn't work for me so I tried: rmmod ath_pci then modprobe ath_pci. You should now have wireless working and be able to connect to other networks.

What else? How to get the webcam working: modprobe uvcvideo Then install: apt-get install luvcview Make a launcher/link to point to this command: luvcview -f yuv. For this to work, make sure 'camera' was enabled in your BIOS.

Splashy

Tired of how ugly the bootscreen is? Install Splashy! apt-get install splashy Now to configure GRUB. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add hiddenmenu

In the file, you can also change the timeout. You will then come across a commented line: # defoptions=quiet Add this line: # defoptions=quiet splash vga=785 (788 for 800x600, 785 for 640x480) Update GRUB: update-grub and thats it, you now have a graphical loader.

Swap

So, lets make the swap file: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024k count=256

That will make a 256MB swap file, fine if you have 512MB RAM. Then: mkswap /swap Now add this to your /etc/fstab:

/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

Then sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1 Alter the last line of /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.swappiness=1

Activate it: swapon /swap

Suspend

Install µswsusp aptitude install uswsusp To put your Eee in suspend or test it, run: s2disk. I haven't got it to suspend when I close the lid (yet), so you can make a launcher/link for now.

Desktop Enviroment

Since I love Xfce, I chose to install it: apt-get install xfce4.

Update: I tried LXDE and in my opinion it's faster than XFCE.

To install LXDE, use this: aptitude update aptitude install lxde Log out and change your session to log in to Xfce or whatever your desktop preference is. Since I was running low on space, I uninstalled OpenOffice.org, Evolution, and a number of other programs using Synaptic package manager. And thats it I hope that works for anyone out there, I would of loved this tutorial before I installed Debian. Any comments or ideas are appreciated :)

Free Eee size wallpapers too: http://geekness.eu/node/50

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URL to this post: http://geekness.eu/debianeee

Thanks to: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian http://demenzia.net/2008/02/22/using-suspend-to-disk-with-eeexubuntu-on-a-eeepc

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install

http://google.com

Progress on Torrentino has been slow. Really, theres one major bug that needs to be fixed (the Browse page, when the torrents update # of seeds, leechs, etc..) and other than that, its good to go. The ACP could use a little work, but whatever. The current theme is uhh....useable. Maybe there'll be another one. On the other hand, I've been working on WorkSimple lately. Version 1.2.2 should be coming out soon, as soon I get this one thing figured out..... This will fix the major security flaws in version 1.2.1. Its about 03:00 hrs here, 'twas play Fallout 3 for some hours before. Well, I'm off to go play LEGO (yes, thats right, LEGO(I'm that bored)), I'll post back uhhhh tomorrow or today...whatever.

Guess who can access their music and any other's (while running Simplify media server)? Me! I figured out that while I have Simplify running, who ever's I also connected to previously I can browse while connected via WiFi. No need to put new music on my iPod, just stream it now. My internet net was out from 20:00 to 04:30, finally got a hold of my ISP (yes, at 4am) and got it fixed. Within that 8.5 hours, I made a simple picture gallery script (email me if you want it). I have 150 free 4x6" prints down at Superstore. I uploaded some pics and sent the order. The site said one business day (not sure what that means though, can I get it tomorrow or overmorrow...?). Anyway, I uploaded some more pics to my Flickr page so feel free to check them out and maybe leave a comment or two. Anyway, I sorta feel like working a bit more on Torrentino or even Web Host.

Now, I can stream my entire music collection and listen to it on my iPod touch using Simplify. Run the server on your computer (Windows, OS X AND EVEN LINUX!) and connect to it with your iPod. The only thing you pay for is the app on your iPod, which is 3,99$ (CAD). I was trying to get TVersity working on my Dads computer so I could watch videos from his computer. Anyway, I'm installing Simplify Media server on this computer right now, I'll post back in a bit.

Ymas is tomorrow. Haven't slept in 24 hours (except for a short 1.5hr nap). I cant till Ymas is over, I never really liked Ymas in the first place (except for presents :D). Anyway, I've been sorta (half ass) trying to get my other server (jlap) running (so it would share the load) with my other server (flippy). Its almost 9am here, I think its couch time. P.S. If I get anything interesting I'll post back here tomorrow....