Coredump

You'll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That's courtesy of Roy Tanck's WP-Cumulus plugin . Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up. I'm still on K2 (RC3), but I've ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP's widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven't had the time to muck around it. (When did I ever have time for anything, anyway? ;)) It's working fine in my sandbox, though -- well, RC5 at least, but I'm not that keen on porting my tweaks yet to that release. I haven't been posting here lately. Like a few other bloggers I know, Twitter (and FriendFeed ) has been the choice for posting "lifestream" tidbits. But, heck, I don't even use Twitter that much now (prolly, the IT sec audit at work has something to do with it, heh).

It's been a while since I last handled the eee. I haven't gotten around to changing the default Xandros OS to either Ubunty or Fedora. Frankly, the OS works just fine for me. And as long as I can get a command-line and an internet connection, I'm a happy camper. But it's been an unusually quiet weekend so I decided to focus a bit more on this cute little monster. First off, an upgrade. It was a simple matter of doing a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade . The bad side is, since the OS uses unionfs , the 4GB storage is now down to only ~260MB free (or around 83% in use). I'll have to look at the repackaged updates from the XEPC project, if the storage factor becomes critical, but for now, I can live with this. Next, the OS change. I did attempt to install Ubuntu Hardy Heron on the eee, but hit a snag while creating a USB bootable flash disk. I had a spare 1GB flash disk at hand, and was able to dump the netboot image from the Ubuntu archives. For som...