Wifi command line tool

cnetworkmanager

Minimal desktop

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1155961

Would be interesting to learn how to add the desktop to a minimal or server installation.

and learn the start-up procedures at the same time.

ATI drivers not available for Ubuntu 9.04?

Test manual setup

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=38804

Mini-IT Atom HTPC

Board

INTEL D945GCLF2 LITTLE FALLS ATOM 330 MINI-ITX BULK -----850 SEK

 

Case

SILVERSTONE HTPC SST-LC19R SILVER-------------------------------1995 SEK

(incl PSU)

alt

COMPUCASE MINI-ITX 8K01BS 100W SVART-------------------------625 SEK

Remote

PHILIPS RC197 REMOTE CONTROLL OCH RECIVER------------------340SEK

Optional GPU

Sparkle Geforce 8400GS 512MB DDR2, DVI, VGA, TV-out, PCI-------795 SEK 

It is pretty hard to find mini ATX components in Sweden, maybe too early?

An unrelated problem is that I cant find any "standard" MCE Remote any more either. To bad I do not want to have trouble getting it to work in Linux.

Portableapps - Your digital life anywhere

Something to try?

http://portableapps.com

The question is how it will interact with corporate ant-virus, firewalls and GPOs.

Create USB boot tool

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Seem to have nice functionalities. Should test

Ubuntu 8.10 USB boot creator

Looks like the problem (or part of) with USB boot in 8.04 is fixed

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/219192

Not sure if it is enough to update the system or new CD is need (8.04.3)

Or daily build:

http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/hardy/

Edit: I tested and it works fine.

xbmc session

Ok.

Finally found out how the get the xbmc session to work in ubuntu.

An extra package is needed:

sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone

Someone need to add that to the wiki.

policy instead of sudoers?

I have to look into this again

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.hibernate

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot-multiple-sessions

sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions

TEST USB boot

Possibilities:

1) Converting live CD => USB boot with Ubuntu 8.10 tool

2) Install Ubuntu direct to USB

If used as permanent solution the tmp should be mapped to ram disk & no swap

3) Create a live CD from running system and convert to USB boot

Thin Client Media Center

I tested to run XBMC via XDMCP. The very loud test laptop becomes almost completly silent.

I have no sound and no remote. Sound is fixable from what I understand. USB / Remote could be a problem.

I would like to do some work on this.

Possible solutions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX

Both supports sound and USB port mapping(?). 

Another solution with be to use network booting. However, I think the problem is CPU heat not HD.

The first step would be to isolate HD heat/noise from CPU by boot from USB.