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Automatic USB backup with Ubuntu

Posted Tue, 02/23/2010 - 12:11 by andri

Update: This article is originally from andri.dk and is provided as is. Some of the information is outdated, but hopefully still helpful to some.

Everyone has important files like personal photographs, bank statements, a life's accumulation of porn and so and and so forth that would be hard or impossible to recover if that damn hard drive would fail.

I've always been well aware of the dangers of not taking backups but yet still lazy enough to ignore it.

Backup for the lazy includes the following steps:

  • Put USB stick in computer
  • Wait for computer to BEEP or USB stick to stop flashing
  • Unplug USB stick
  • Rinse and repeat!

Finding a decent OS for my Asus EEE 1000he

Posted Sat, 02/13/2010 - 12:25 by andri

Last fall, after my one year old Macbook battery died and Apple refused to fix it I decided to spend twice as much as a replacement battery to buy myself a new Asus EEE 1000he netbook instead.

I intended this computer to fulfill note taking at the university, browsing, media playing and to serve as a calculator (Matlab/Maple).

The machine came pre-installed with Windows XP Home and I quickly replaced that with EEEbuntu 3 and have been running that for 4 months. The main problem I have with EEEbuntu is that it's not maintained and the Gnome desktop environment seems to be sucking the life out of my little netbook.

My quest is to find a netbook operating system with the following qualities:

  • Fast booting
  • Lightweight desktop environment
  • Ability to browse (preferably using Chromium)
  • Flawless hardware support for my 1000he
  • Run Maple and Matlab

I will be going through the candidates and updating each review as I hopefully will be able to find an operating system to my liking.

Has Linux failed on the desktop?

Posted Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:06 by andri

In reply to: The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it.

Techrepublic's editor has written this fine blog post about why Linux has failed on the desktop and why it will never succeed. I respectfully disagree and will explain why that is.