Asus EEEpc the Hakkers best friend...

Recently i was admitted to hospital, actually a few times and i had surgery on a couple of occasions. Bored out of my brain i decided to use my time in a very productive way and turn my hand to doing what i do best, breaking things and putting them back together. i had seen the asus eeepc and immiediatly i saw some great potential in such a portable and actually very pretty machine. your basic 701 4gb surf comes with a gig of ram and a 900mhz processor and the thing that imediatly drew me to this little beast, the SSD (solid state drive) this drive is a wonderfull device. It has no moving parts wich means straight away we have more battery life.

Ok what i did with mine over the past few months of tinkering im gonna list in sections, "No exp" and "Be carefull!"

No exp

First is our software updates the basic linux operating system comes with easy mode only running, there is the option to get "FULL KDE" this is a graphic user interface that looks a hell of alot like the notorious Windows XP.

first boot up, another wonder of this "little killer" is the boot speed, i cloked mine the first boot i did (after setup boot) at only 17 seconds, WOW.

ok so were on the 'widely known as' "fisher price" desktop.
For this part we must be connected to the internet, so get connected now.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T
this brings up a terminal, and for all those windows only till now noobs, its essentialy the linux version of dos.

in our terminal we say we are the "root" or "Super User" so we type in...

su (hit enter)
now we are asked for the root password, type in the password we set when first booted and setup linux, then hit enter again. Now we are logged into the terminal as the super user.
Now type...

apt-get update (enter)

this gets all the updates for usnow type...

apt-get install ksmserver kicker (hit enter)

now you get a long list of components that are downloaded from the asus eeepc software repository.

you will be asked if you want to install untrusted software this is not a problem just hit

y (enter)

ok thats it just hit thelittle shutdown button in the bottom right and now on the far left of your options you can boot into the full desktop mode. Personaly i got bored of the desltop mode and decided to hack up my easy mode to get it looking pretty damn cool.

next thing we want to do is install a program called tweakeee this has loads of really usefull other programs like eeecontroll and emeditor. So...

Enter the command

wget http://www.infinitedesigns.org/eeepc/tweakeee_0.4-0.i386.deb

Next enter the command

chmod +x tweakeee_0.4-0.i386.deb

Finally Enter this command to start the installation

sudo dpkg -i tweakeee_0.4-0.i386.deb

To run the program, you can either type in a terminal

tweakeee

or in the Settings tab there should be an icon for TweakEEE


NOTE EEEcontrol is an software overclocking program DONOT set this over 75 and make sure it is "vmod" u can set the fan to 100 if you like but your battery will be affected.

otherwise look through tweakeee you can do somuch with this like starting to change easy mode and using different cursors to getting more games even open arena (quake 3 clone)

im tired so Be Carefull section and miscelaneous will have to come tomorow.