Archive for April, 2009

Boot Acronis with USB on an EEE PC

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

There are a few basic guides: powerex's guide where you format with an HP tool ziggywas' tip to format with PeToUSB (The following step to those 2 summaries is to just use the Acronis Rescue disk creator) There's only one small catch. Setting the ...

Useful Firefox Plugins for the EEE PC

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Customization | 1 Comment »

Tiny Menu - Condenses all the file menus (File, Edit, View, etc.) into one option called Menu. I suggest using this, then dragging all the nav buttons and such onto the same row. Saves a lot of screen real estate, ...

Enable Advanced Mode on the EEE PC 1000

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Customization | No Comments »

How to set up Advanced Desktop or Full Desktop on an Eee PC 1000 Press Ctrl & Alt and T at the same time to get to the terminal. Type sudo synaptic Click settings and then repositories Click add in the bottom left corner Put ...

Install Wine on the EEE PC

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Customization | No Comments »

Download lazyeeepc and run it. It should give you an easy option to install wine for the eee pc. More info (translated): Lazyeeepc contain easy-to-use GUI and a scripts collection, which can use to install software and enhance EeePC easily. lazyeeepc 0.0.5.2 is ...

Get Ventrilo to Work on the EEE PC (Sort-of)

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Customization, Technical Issues | No Comments »

1. Edit the file: ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini 2. And add the following line: MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm 3. Next you need to get your hands on the windows file 'msgsm32.acm' from an existing windows partition (C:/WINDOWS/system32/msgsm32.acm) and copy it to '~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system/'. 4. Run vent. Note: When I transmit, I can usually ...