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Sound clips for Pidgin in eeePC

When I first started using Pidgin in eeePC 900 (running Ubuntu Hardy), I wonder why there was no notification sounds. In Pidgin, you can enable various sounds for when someone login into the IM or chat, logout, when someone send you a message, and when you send a message back.
However, none of these sounds [...]

Posted 28 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Bluetooth Nokia N95 to eeePC with Ubuntu Hardy

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 introduced a number of improvements to bluetooth support. Recently, I have been testing a few of these functionalities and found that they now worked easily with very little hacks.

Bluetooth devices
Items used:

eeePC 900 running fully updated Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 i386
Nokia N95 8GB
Chronos USB2.0 Bluetooth V2.1 mini dongle

Set up bluetooth in Hardy
There is [...]

Posted 20 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Beep on usb hotplug for laptop

Two months ago, I thought I discovered a cool trick in NSLU2-Linux wiki for beeping the PC’s internal speaker whenever a usb device is hotplugged. After poking around Ubuntu’s internals and some scripting, I created a howto for using the same trick in a Ubuntu PC. Finally, I proudly posted the howto in [...]

Posted 04 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Ubuntu hardy on eeePC 900

Ubuntu Hardy Heron version 8.04.1 was released on 3 July 2008. A few days later, I decided to get a cheap laptop, and the new eeePC 900 came to mind. Since the eeePC ran Xandros Linux, it should be relatively simple to change the OS to Ubuntu, and enabling all necessary hardware components.

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Posted 30 July 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,