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15/06/2010

Customize Firefox for Easy Peasy

I'm considering replacing Firefox by a faster browser, like Chromium or Opera. However, some Firefox extensions are very handy and make it fit well to the small EEE 701 screen: Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Tiny Menu. Too bad Firefox is so slow! (on a 512 MB, 900 MHz machine)

22/12/2009

Easy Peasy 1.5, signature error

I kept getting the following error when trying to update Easy Peasy 1.5 after an installation from scratch: W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error: http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release: Les signatures suivantes ne […]

09/07/2009

EasyPeasy slow wifi

I'm using EasyPeasy on a EEE 701 (the very first official netbook) on a daily basis at work. When I upgraded UbuntuEEE 8.04 to Easy Peasy 1.1 (based on Ubuntu 8.10), I started to experience a very slow and intermittent wifi. I tried a lot of tweaks, in vain. I finally found out that replacing the installed wifi driver […]