Ubuntu on MSI Wind U100

Got my Wind Netbook yesterday, took out Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The distribution do not run well on Wind. The brightness control will increase and decrease by itself for about 2-3 minutes till the system settles down.

The solution was to downgrade to 9.04(Jaunty Jackalope). That worked well enough but I'm a little disappointed that I can't use 9.10. Karmic has nicer GUI and package management enhancements which I was used to.

Hoping that the bugs will be fixed in the near future.

Todo:

http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/

Where did lighttpd go?

Bummer, site seems to be down. Think I'll use Mongoose httpd instead.

http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/

Subversion and Google Projects

Installed Subversive

Useful link

Checking out projects from Google Code - the URL should be configured as:

https://yourproject.googlecode.com/svn

SVN client on eclipse

SubEclipse works perfectly when installed in Windows but not Ubuntu. You'll receive a dialog "Unable to load default SVN Client". It's because the Linux version does not come with JavaHL .

What is JavaHL?

Getting it to work under Ubuntu

Apparently installation of JavaHL isn't straightforward.

I've found an alternative:

Subversive

Will be trying this out.

HTML 5

I've avoided doing any HTML/Javascript related work since HTML 3.2

Lately I've noticed HTML 5 being talked about in the usual tech forums and I thought it's just some incremental improvements with a video tag being thrown in. I was mistaken.

The proposed HTML 5 standard apparently covers not just video, but how you can manipulate images and shapes in the browser as well. The appearance of the canvas element should be a welcomed specification. Finally Flash will not be the only player in town(Silverlight too?).

I'll be looking closely at the canvas element. Graphics is something I love playing with since the microcomputer days( 10 GR: 20 PLOT 10,20)

Back to my google wave gadget...

Server Name Indicator

Something to think about next time when deploying servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

Noticed Google App hosting doesn't support it now.