Wayne D's Blog

At some point I turned off the box that appeared at the top of the EEEPC webcam tool ucview when a video or image file is saved. The box not only shows the name of the video file that you save but also makes it easy to tell when you have stopped recordin… more »

About a month ago Yahoo changed something on the Yahoo Messenger servers that stopped the version of Pidgin which is installed on my EEEPC 701 from connecting. Asus has stopped updating the software for the version of the EEEPC I have and after some frui… more »

After saying such nice things about Adobe and Linux with respect to Adobe AIR I found out yesterday that a problem I attributed to my trying to run Flash 10 on the EEEPC is actually a problem on all version of Linux using Flash Player version 10. Here is… more »

Recently I upgraded the version of smplayer which the EEEPC uses to play video. In the process I managed to break it so the volume control in smplayer no longer worked. Smplayer is an mplayer wrapper and mplayer also lost it's ability to change the volum… more »

The experience of Linux on the EEEPC neatly summerizes the problem with Linux, that is Linux is a concept and not a thing. For some unfathomable reason Asus picked the Xandros distro as the version of Linux to install on the EEEPC. The charitable interpr… more »