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openSUSE 11.3 on the HP Mini 210 1010NR

By Justin Haygood on August 18, 2010 11:03 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

This is a followup to an older post I had.

What's been fixed:

The clickpad works like an old-fashioned touchpad now. Maybe the next version will have the multitouch goodness ;). Though, for sanity, switch it to tap to click mode. It makes things a lot easier.

What hasn't:

Drivers ship for the wifi, but it sucks and tends to drop out. Please use the broadcom-wl drivers from Packman. Trust me, your sanity will appreciate it.

Still Alive...

By Justin Haygood on August 18, 2010 10:54 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Yes, I am indeed still alive, and still working for EyeWonder, a Limelight Networks Business. I'm having a great time still, and we released one of major products that we've been working on for the past 2 years, EyeOne, and the first product built on it: AdVolve.

I'm also going on vacation in September with Shelley Grey :)

We're going to Sarasota, FL to the beach for a day or two, most likely staying at Ritz Carlton there by the beach. We're also going to Disney World, and probably Sea World or Universal Studios as well :)

Blog Software Upgrade

By Justin Haygood on May 15, 2010 6:39 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Testing to see if Movable Type 5.02 works...

Limelight Completes Acquisition of EyeWonder

By Justin Haygood on May 5, 2010 1:53 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Image representing Limelight Networks as depic...

Image via CrunchBase

Limelight Networks purchased my employer (EyeWonder), and since Monday, EyeWonder (now: EyeWonder, a Limelight Networks Business) has been operating as part of Limelight Networks. What's changed? So far, not so much. I'm glad to be part of the LLNW team though!

Reference: In The Limelight: Limelight Networks Closes on EyeWonder Acquisition

openSUSE 11.2 on an HP Mini 210 1010NR

By Justin Haygood on April 18, 2010 8:29 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I recently acquired an HP Mini 210 1010NR, which is a modern Pine Trail netbook.

Specs:

Intel Atom N450 processor (1.66 GHz, HT enabled)
1 GB (1024 MB) RAM
160 GB HDD
10.1" LCD display (1024x600 resolution, fairly standard)
1.3MP webcam
HP Synaptics Clickpad
Broadcom 802.11g wireless
10/100 Ethernet
Intel HD graphics (3100 I do believe)

What works out of the box:

Most everything

What doesn't:

Wifi
Touchpad

Fixing things!
The install went fairly smoothly. I have an HP DVD-RAM USB drive which helped alot (it came with my HP Envy 15 laptop...). Once installed, wifi can be made to work on a clean install of openSUSE 11.2 by following these steps:

Connect to the internet via ethernet
Update the kernel-default package to the most current package. You can run zypper up or Yast Online Update or preferred update mechanism and just install all the updates as well.
Add the Packman repository
Install the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-default packages (must do both, or you will change your kernel to the debug kernel. Don't want that now...)
Reboot

Voila, you have working wifi

The touchpad is a bit more tricky, since its not really a touchpad, but Synaptics new ClickPad found in the HP Mini and HP Envy lines. While openSUSE 11.3 will fix this correctly, you can get it working by doing the following:

Install kernel-source, make, and gcc
Update /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c and /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.h with the files in the attached zip: Desktop.zip
Using README.SUSE in the kernel source directory, configure, build, and install your custom kernel
Reboot
Voila, a working touchpad. No multitouch, but hey, like I said, openSUSE 11.3 will be working properly with this fancy touchpad.

A little bit of iPhone & Flash humor...

By Justin Haygood on April 16, 2010 5:38 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Almost here!

By Justin Haygood on April 10, 2010 10:22 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

My employer, EyeWonder, is being purchased by Limelight Networks out of Tempe,AZ, a major Content Delivery Network. The stockholder meetings are April 28th for the EyeWonder stockholders and April 30th for the Limelight stockholders. Limelight plans to keep EyeWonder a separate operating unit for now, so my job is safe.

Apple is evil, Part 2

By Justin Haygood on April 9, 2010 8:57 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Apple just effectively banned 2 very good products for building (native) iPhone applications. Up until OS 4.0, these apps were perfectly fine, and you are probably using an app built using one of those 2 technologies already:

Adobe's Flash to iPhone compiler
Novell's MonoTouch
Unity 3D might be effected, but not quite sure yet

So yep.. Apple is evil.

Flash Player 10.1 LocalConnection performance problems

By Justin Haygood on March 27, 2010 11:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Disclaimer: This post has not been authorized by my employer, and any opinions are my own, and are not intended to construed as representing official opinion of EyeWonder, Inc.

While developing the next version of our ad authoring tool, I noticed a major performance issue that will affect a lot of people that use LocalConnection .. LocalConnection is slow in Flash Player 10.1! AdWonder uses LocalConnection for several things, but its primary usage is for "logging". The ubiqutious EW.sendToPanel call in our ads, which sends text to the output panel, now has a noticeable delay from when you send the command in the ad until it hits the output panel. This isn't just me, Tinic Uro from Adobe has confirmed this in his blog posting: There's not an approximate 33ms delay from when the call is made until its processed in Flash Player 10.1!