Revision as of 11:05, 20 November 2008

Online Reources

• Guide to using Damn Small Linux for this
• This project has the idea I"m looking for, keep it in "laptop" form as much as possible to make future enhancements easier.

Physical Resources

• Ratmandu is donating a Latitude C640 with no optical drive, keyboard, or RAM
  • Purchased 128MB of RAM from ebay for ~$8
  • Switched stick I purchased for an extra 256MB stick that Strages had
  • Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age)
  • Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu
  • LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it.

Soft Resources

• Have installe Ubuntu via PXE boot
• Installed ubuntu-desktop
• Installed flickrfs
• created flickr account
  • flickerfs does not need a username/password combination to access flickr, it uses some kind of authentication key. It works, I don't need to understand it.
• installed feh at brimstone's recommendation, some sort of screen saver
  • command: feh -F -D 1 .
    • This commend starts a slideshow through the directory
    • brimstome recommended rsyncing the directory to somewhere as it appeared to be pulling the images from flickr each time rather than storing them locally?
    • flickerfs allows you to create a directory in the public tags directory to pull in photos of that tag. it uses the directory name as the tag