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  • Boot time:

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  • Graphical User Interface:

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  • Devices:

Nokia N70, Samsung U700, Alcatel One Touch x020, Samsung SyncMaster 923NW:

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Digitus USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge:

With this device you could attach to your PC/Laptop/Netbook any SATA/PATA/IDE hard drive. On Acer AspireOne this device works fine, after you connect the Digitus to an USB port open a terminal window and type the following command:

$ lsusb

you should see something like this:

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 152d:2338 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 064e:d101 Suyin Corp.

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

 

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Then you could type the following command to receive more informations:

$ dmesg

and you can see something like the following:

Aug 12 10:10:03 piccoletto kernel: [ 5941.668111] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6

Aug 12 10:10:03 piccoletto kernel: [ 5941.803777] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Aug 12 10:10:03 piccoletto kernel: [ 5941.806515] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

Aug 12 10:10:08 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.810032] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access FUJITSU MHT2040AT PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS

Aug 12 10:10:08 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.817128] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)

Aug 12 10:10:08 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.819506] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

Aug 12 10:10:08 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.823724] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)

Aug 12 10:10:08 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.825987] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

Aug 12 10:10:09 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.829137] sdb: sdb1

Aug 12 10:10:09 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.906571] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

Aug 12 10:10:09 piccoletto kernel: [ 5946.906907] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

Normally, if the hard drive has been already partitioned and formatted, Ubuntu will mount the disk (or disks if you have more than one partition) for you. Otherwise you could use gparted, fdisk and mkfs.* to prepare your hard drive

USB mice:

Every USB mouse I tried workked well on the AspireOne with Ubuntu UMPC. Itried the following mice:

Apple one button mouse.

Trust 3 button mouse with wheel.


Tatung 17" CRT Display:

This monitor works fine and I can set the resolution up to 1440×900, I can also use this monitor as clone of the LCD integrated monitor or to extend it. I can also decide to deactivate one of the two monitors. With this monitor active I cannot use graphical effects (compiz).

Canon LBP 2900:

I’ll show you how it work in next article

Agfa SnapScan e25:

I’ll show you how it work in next article

Ipod Shuffle:

I’ll show you how it work in next article

Applications:

Open Office 2.4, Open Office 3.0, Gimp 2.6, Codeblocks 8.2:
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fcrackzip 0.3:
Sometimes, you could need to recover a password for an old encrypted zip file. To do this I use fcrackzip. fcrackzip works fine on mmy AspireOne but take in mind that this software is a CPU bound software, so on an ATOM CPU it could take a large amount of time to give you the result. Anyway I tried this software on two encrypted zip files, the first one waas encrypted with a 9 numbers password, the second one was encrypted with a 7 chars password that wasn’t in the dictionary, these are the results:

$ time fcrackzip -l 4-9 -c 1 --use-unzip inkey.zip
PASSWORD FOUND!!!!: pw == 987654321
real    5m8.981s
user    5m8.963s
sys    0m0.028s

$ time fcrackzip -l 6-9 -c a --use-unzip inkey.zip
PASSWORD FOUND!!!!: pw == pippolo
real    10m14.291s
user    10m14.242s
sys    0m0.008s

 

Noise:

The Acer Aspire 110 is quite noisy because the fan is always on, but this problem could be fixed and I will show how to fix it in a future article.