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The last time I got an ultra portable laptop it was a Fujitsu Lifebook.  At the time there was nothing like it.. a tiny laptop with 6 hours of battery life and a DVD/CDR drive.  Over the years it served as a network auditing machine, a firewall, a router, a wireless access point, a war driving box, and a general purpose web browsing laptop.  Unfortunately the time has come to replace it.  Not because it is broken, but because it’s just too slow to handle firefox.

Looking for a replacement/general web surfin’ laptop I decided to buy an asus eee 1000h.  Newegg had a $100 price drop and I pulled the trigger.  I just got it today and I’ve got to tell you its like deja vu.

The eee has a pretty big following, mainly with ubuntu (eh.) and debian users.  I decided to go with ubuntu just because someone had gone through all the work to make a specific kernel for it.

Installation of Ubuntu:

1. I followed these steps
2. To get the fn keys to work I used elmurato’s script found here
3. To test out the webcam I used “Cheese”  sudo apt-get install cheese
4. oh yeah! the way volume is controlled is a little weird, right click on your volume control, set the master to 100%, then right click on the volume control select preferences and select “front”…. then you will be controlling the front audio channel only (which is the speakers).

I’m pretty happy with it so far, it has nearly the same keyboard as my old lifebook, its decently speedy, I can mount smb shares to my NAS… it’s awesome.

Oh yeah, and whomever complains about the gloss finish leaving fingerprints or the right shift key needs to shut it… its $450..

I moved from my previous IIS/Subtext platform to the old LAMP/wordpress standby.  There are a few reasons why I didn’t like subtext, it sucked.  I left the wordpress world and I just came back, and the changes are awesome!

Subtext chokes on exporting to BlogML if any posts contain embedded youtube videos, so I removed them from my post(s).

Migration steps:

1. Recursive ftp get from old host (grabbed all the files and directories)
2. Wrote down all the links to posts that I had
3. Exported subtext blog to ml file and saved to local machine
4. Changed nameservers at my registrar (directnic.com)
5. Used Fantastico to setup wordpress instance for www.copyandwaste.com
6. Configured Wordpress settings to my liking
7. Downloaded and installed BlogML import plugin, instructions here
8. Imported BlogML file to wordpress
9. FTP put for my images directory on my new host
10. Wrote edited .htaccess for my site’s root and inserted RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^.]+)\.aspx$ http://www.copyandwaste.com/$2/$3/$4/$5 [R=301,L]
11. Fixed some dates for posts using mysql cli

“Pretty URIs” in subtext look like this:

http://www.copyandwaste.com/archive/2008/07/29/building-a-mouse-picture-post.aspx

“Pretty URIs” in wordpress look like this:

http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/07/29/building-a-mouse-picture-post/

As you see, all I had to do was remove the “archive” part.. right?  Wrong.  Subtext allows periods in the URI, therefore I ended up writing 3 more rewrite rules:

RewriteRUle ^archive/2008/05/26/alix-2c.3-openbsd-4.3.aspx http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/05/26/alix-2c3-openbsd-43/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^archive/2008/06/23/blueboss-v2.0---bluetooth-proximity-alerting.aspx http://www.copyandwaste.com/2008/06/23/blueboss-v20-bluetooth-proximity-alerting/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^archive/2007/12/25/parsing-webrequestmethods.ftp.listdirectorydetails-and-listdirectory.aspx http://www.copyandwaste.com/2007/12/25/parsing-webrequestmethodsftplistdirectorydetails-and-listdirectory/ [R=301,L]

The RSS URI in Subtext looks like: http://www.copyandwaste.com/rss.aspx

The RSS URI in Wordpress looks like: http://www.copyandwaste.com/feed

So yet an other RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^rss.aspx$ http://www.copyandwaste.com/feed/ [R=301,L]

And that’s it! (Hopefully)

If I were to do this again, I would probably just create my own custom string for permalinks, which would cut about have my mod_rewrite use.  Unfortunately, creating my own custom string for permalinks wouldn’t fix the periods in the URI problem.