TooMuchGreen

Due to a change of circumstance I eBayed the Dell Mini 9 last week. Don’t get me wrong, it had been, and was still, superb as a cheap little Ubuntu dev box to SSH into however now I’m “on-site” at the Leeds office certain days of the week it just wasn’t a viable option to work on all day, cool as it was that mini keyboard was just too small for anyone larger than a woodland elf.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:60 mins)

Having previously dabbled with Moblin on my Dell Mini 9 I was obviously most interested in the Ubuntu “developer” version (as recently offered up for purchase on the 10v’s) so I pulled it down from the Dev Wiki and installed it.

I used Ubuntu’s quick and easy usb-imagewriter to create the key and as you would expect with it being a tailored Dell netbook release it dropped onto the Mini 9 with no problems at all, everything worked including the Wi-Fi (which wasn’t seen during previous dabbles with the standard and less together Karmic-Moblin-Remix)  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:45 mins)

As has been the case with me over the past two years I’m once again in a rented apartment at the mercy of someone else’s Wi-Fi with no resulting control or access to the router. It’s all somewhat limiting should I wish to dabble in any external DynDNS malarkey (which I do) but I get by SSH-ing around the LAN to the wondrous little Dell Mini 9″ and it’s certainly a notch up from running a virtual machine on the MacBook Air, in fact it’s actually a most useful set up and a really don’t know how I ever managed before.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:42 mins)

Mobile server development can be tricky, or do I mean mobile development for servers? A few weeks ago it would have been the latter however thanks to the superb little Dell Mini 9 I can now deliver both whilst simultaneously sipping a nice latte in the Cafe “Tous les Jours” across the street  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:24 mins)