Journal of Tormod Haugen

I can only say; don’t make too many promises. I said I should blog a it more yesterday - but reality has made it so that my only working computer at home is my Aspire One, and the time I had set off for blogging and fixing up a theme download went into a drain marked “fix desktop computer”. Will be back.

Yesterday I installed Skype on my Acer Aspire One. I did it on the Linpus Lite Distro, and it was quick and painless. Everything I had read up until yesterday had prepared me for a difficult and time consuming task. I set at it with grim persistence, though - I needed Skype, and my desktop is crashing every one or two hours now.

With a bit more research it all looked brighter. It seems as if Linpus is built on Fedora (6?), and then I could at least use the rpm (package) from skype.com. There still was a few troubling hints that I had to download it and install with yam - getting every prerequisite package before I could get it installed.

Reality was even easier than I had guessed, and about as easy as I could hope. I located the terminal and changed the root password, fixing a system menu to the right mouse button, as described by Laptop Magazine. After that I downloaded the rpm package from the net - and it opened by default in the package manager. A few ok’s later, and it had installed all dependencies and skype itself.

I’m still planning on getting easy peasy installed on it later, but I guess I’ll wait until I got time, money and inspiration to get more memory, a SD card and a bigger battery pack for it. Then I probably got a < 1.0 kg computer with almost as much processing power as my aging desktop…

Today there were some handing out of new years gifts. First I went and got my children some new jigsaw puzzles, two with a hundred pieces and one with two hundred pieces. Then I also got my sister a I’m sorrypresent; she got a CD with Stevie Ray Vaughan for Christmas - but thought it to be too country-ish. Now she got some Beethoven to relax to. Lastly I got myself a blue Acer Aspire One, it being on sale and me needing a portable browser and notebook. Here’s to productivity, I hope.

As I came home with the loot, my sister dropped by to deliver a book she had borrowed, the charger for my DS and a new woollen hat my mother had knitted me. Now I got my Meathead hat (with pocket and a button) and this new Shedir hat (in the picture: Tesha © 2009 ). Both are probably uncommon enough; according to my mom (and Ravelry) the Shedir is one of just a few like it - world wide.