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by: ColonelZen	IP: 23.21	rated: 0-0	posted: 2009-01-17 03:42:15
See my previous blog about buying an eMachines laptop from them.     I wish I could take credit for it, but this has been in the works for a long time. But I'll consider it a case of cosmic kharma.     Meanwhile, since the updates - or I may just have been doing something wrong - the hibernate and suspend functions are working on the laptop. Boot time is so fast that hibernate barely seems worth the effort, but it works. Suspend gave me no problems when I shut the laptop for dinner.     Getting the flash player to work in firefox on my 64 bit Ubuntu install took a little work. There are a lot of pages out there telling you how to do it. It wasn't hard for me with lots of Linux experience and no fear of messing around, but it's not something I would suggest for the technically naive. If you want flash working in firefox (who doesn't?) I would recommend newbs stay with the 32 bit version of Ubuntu, at least until it's announced that it works out of the box. The skilled don't need my advice.     On another techie note, a year ago I was given an iPod Nano as a Christmas gift. A great at little music player ... but the third gen Nano's have locked firmware so that no application can update it without Apple's blessing. As a result I had to occasionally move back go to my Windows box and fire up iTunes just to update the iPod. Or at least it used to be that way. While surfing today I saw that someone has hacked the firmware so that now the songs on the iPod can be synced through Amarok. Hooray! I'll give that a try this weekend.     -- TWZ