Archive for January, 2009

Aspire One Black Screen of Death

Updated 04/26/2010: After doing this a few times and reading some of the user comments, I’ve realized that you don’t need to use UNetbootin. It won’t hurt anything, just a couple extra steps. After a normal restart yesterday, my Aspire One booted into just a black screen. No POST, no BIOS, no hard drive light [...]

Turn off the touchpad on the Aspire One

Touchpads drive me crazy! Fortunately, Acer was kind (and smart) enough to make Fn + F7 toggle it on & off. And, as an added bonus, this also works in Puppy Linux 4.1.2 retro k2.6.21.7! If I could see better, or had taken the time to read the manual, I may have discovered this on [...]

Obama's inauguration at LEGOLAND

Via CNN:

Use your Acer AspireOne as an eBook reader

I’ve had a lot of .pdf files to read recently and thought pretty seriously about buying a Kindle so I could carry them around with me.  But, after a little research, and some thought, it looked like viewing .pdf’s on a Kindle was iffy at best and potentially a PITA if I had to convert [...]

PACKETWARS video on YouTube

The first video from the DayCon 2008 PACKETWARS game is up at YouTube! This was my first year volunteering at DayCon / PACKETWARS and it was a blast! Lots of hard work and long days, but I’m ready to do it again.  Check out the video & PACKETWARS.com for upcoming games, more videos and news.