Modding Portal to import the maps from Half-Life 2 allows you to use the Portal gun to drop yourself into areas of the map that definitely not intended for a player to roam. None of it is that interesting, however you can jump your way through a map in about 2 minutes that way:)...kinda defeats the purpose of playing the game. Its far more fun to use the Portal gun to drop Combine troops into a loop so they just keep falling:).
Just about anything with.deb works like a cross between.rpm in Red Hat type builds and.exe in Windows.
Lets take Skype for example: If you go to Skype's Linux Download page after you click on the "Download" button they ask you what distro you're using. Regardless of what it says you just need to pick the Ubuntu option. That download will be some long string of letters and numbers ending with i386.deb. Save that to your directory of choice (probably/home/user and if you're nasty/home/user/Download...in this way/home/user acts just like C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents). Now all you have to do is double-click that file just like you would skype.exe in Windows and the Synaptic Package Manager will pretty much do the rest similar to how Windows Application Manager does.
Now there are situations where its more involved like if you want to compile your own.deb package or something, or if you're installing a.bin file, but even then it isn't really too hard considering Ubuntu's deep forum support. When it comes to business environments most network admins in small or large businesses limit what a user can install anyway. If you'd want a program installed on your office PC you'd ask the admin who'd be able to take care of it regardless.
Another easy way to install apps in Linux is through the repositories and GNOME's Add/Remove Applications feature. This feature works the same in a Fedora build as it would in Ubuntu, but Ubuntu also has the Synaptic Package Manager to give you a GUI of your repository options. With these options its as easy as checking off what you want, then putting in the root password, then using the app! That's even easier than Windows!
Your webcam may be driver related in which case, yeah you'll probably be working from terminal a lot. Many webcams don't have proper Linux driver support (like my Orbit!) but that's more of a strike against the manufacturer or the community (in Ubuntu's case Canonical) than the distro itself (its not Ubuntu's fault nobody wants to get the drivers ready for your device...there are a lot of devices to figure out!).
For most distro's Linux is far from being ready for the desktop for a variety of reasons. Fedora 11 came out yesterday and it couldn't be more involved to get working (I still can't get the proper alsa drivers installed!...oh and dropping out to shell is for some reason impossible for me?) but the ever popular Ubuntu is just about ripe for the picking in business environments.
The learning curve to admin a Linux network may be fairly involved, but to just use it to process documents and surf the web (which is most desk jobs) there is no learning curve. Example: my wife couldn't be more computer illiterate. Her notebook has been on the fritz lately due to hardware issues so she's been back and forth between my netbook running Ubuntu and my desktop running Windows 7. For someone who's only really used XP for the past couple of years she found each OS equally user friendly. To be fair I'm using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which has really big buttons that say exactly what a particular app is and does, but she still understands the basic Applications>Internet>Firefox.
That said I also understand there are more specialized applications that are better suited for Windows for certain professionals. By no means is Linux a viable option for every situation, however the Ubuntu desktop option is certainly valid enough to be offered. The learning curve for basic use is all but non-existent and over-stated. If a small business can save $100 per PC for their receptionists and account executives by using Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org what is wrong with giving them the option? I for one have respect for Dell for being this open minded:)
P.S. I've been playing with Edubuntu and Sugar (OLPC) on SD cards on my netbook for my 2-year-old and even SHE understands how to use it...to a certain extent....well she understands banging on the keyboard makes things happen. Also she understands 'sudo give me ice cream' gets her a nice bowl of vanilla.
You sir are a genius! If these "scientists" try and display this one day to the public or for a nobel prize panel you should show up with the power of rock and destroy their evil!
"Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven."
"Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. "
I am having sound issues as well. 1 out of every 3 times (without fail) I put my Win7 machine to sleep it wakes up w/no audio claiming it cannot find the device. I'm using an Asus motherboard with onboard sound. The C-Media CM6501 Audio Driver is what I would be using, and have tried, but to no avail.
I'm also having problems with disc encryption. I whole disc encrypted my XP partition which is fine, accept when it is mounted in my Win7 partition Win7 can't "fall asleep". This has nothing to do with the sound problems, its just interesting and I thought I'd mention it. I solved both problems by just not putting my Win7 machine to sleep:)
Is it me or does it seem like the idea of intellectual property is evolving? I guess all this legal round-about is simply the growing pains? To me it all just seems irrelevant (the situation, not the article). In the end we're just arguing over what to do with ourselves...kinda like debating in the mirror over which hand to service yourself with and this time each hand is wearing the other's glove?
I can't tell if that's an accurate analogy but it talks about servicing oneself so I guess that's funny.
Thats not fair to say. 11 is the first distro that allows use of ext4 with Fedora, and I do mention that the problems with GPU probably have little to do with what we're talking about, but that I've also had issues with data loss etc so it is relevant. I simply thought all bugs should be noted and it wasn't my intention to stray off topic.
Ive used it for the past few months on my netbook, however I've only recently tried the Fedora 11 build on ext4 on my desktop. I was impressed w/ the boot speed on my netbook, and for the netbook thats all that really matters. I had absolutely no problems w/ the netbook using Jaunty UNR and ext4.
I did have some problems w/Fedora on my desktop though. It booted nice, and did all the easy stuff well (web browsing, office stuff, etc.) but it got all screwy w/Wine and Eclipse. It might be the GPU I have, or the lack of driver support for Fedora w/it, but Wine ran extremely badly with Steam and Left 4 Dead as compared to a Fedora 10 build w/ ext3. Also I had the typically reported problems w/ext4 and data loss when I was doing some Android dev in Eclipse.
Like anything new in the open source community there are bugs to be hashed out. If nobody uses it and nobody reports the bugs then it won't get better. The boot speed gives it value. Windows 7 RC is booting only slightly slower than ext4 (at least on my system) so if Linux is going to make its stand its got to do certain things to make it distinct. I believe simple things like boot-time and broad dev support are the areas that Linux can shine and to that end it appeals to the right clientele to take it in the right direction as a community.:)
The available language packs went from 4 to like 30 and there were I think 4 critical updates and 1 to IE8 in Windows 7 RC. I installed the updates (not the languages) and restarted...only to have boot problems. As someone who never bought or got into Vista I imagine that frustration (boot FAIL) is what Vista users have felt this whole time...my condolences.
A little over a year ago I moved from FL to MD and I had DirecTv. I moved for a job with short notice so my fiancee and I had to move in with her mother for a month until we found a place. The DirecTv followed us to MD for free, but when we moved to our condo there was a problem.
DirecTV doesn't state it online but when you move using their "Movers Connection" you've agreed to extend your service by 6 months, and you've agreed not to move again for those same 6 months. If you do move or cancel within those 6 months they charge you the full cost of your original move plus fees...and they charge your card automatically!
Like I said there was no notice online of such a stipulation, nor did the agent who set up my original move inform me of that criteria. My card was charged $600 4 days before my wedding putting me overdrawn and causing my rent to bounce...putting me down an additional $1500...and I had to pay for some things for the wedding. When I questioned DirecTV about the agreement they said there is no place to view it online, they dont have a document to send, but they assured me that I did, in fact, agree to some silly agreement by moving in the first place.
This story is relevant to the posting because of the automatic withdraw. If they billed me that is one thing, I could call them and work it out, but instead they automatically took money off of my default method of payment simply because it was there. How is this OK with people?! Eventually I got all of my money refunded and a full apology from DirecTV for the hassle...needless to say Im with Verizon FiOS now.
This whole thing burns me up. I think Penny Arcade summed up our collective frustration nicely here. I have been working on creating a wiki to translate user agreements to plain English so we can all get an easier glimpse at the crap we're agreeing to, and the "rights" we forfeit to our utilities etc. Furthermore the site will branch off into areas where those who are commonly disadvantaged can come together to take legal action against companies who blatantly violate their privacy (like Skype did in the post) or their right to know what they agreed to (like my DirecTV situation). Government is supposed to enforce what we the people deem morally just, yet it seems that whatever the government deems legal we all assume is moral...that doesn't make sense to me. Its about time we started revisiting how we're conducting ourselves in my opinion.
I don't think that analogy works exactly...what I was saying is that coding, unlike driving, is more specialized. It would not be beneficial for everyone in society to take the time to learn PHP or Java, however it would benefit everyone to know how to transport themselves great distances in a small amount of time. It would not benefit anyone for everyone to learn how to code, it would only cheapen it all.
Also drivers did get paid well until driving was common...and I don't mean to sound elitist but software development is a bit more technical than cab driving...
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I installed a Joomla site for a latino non-profit in Baltimore who's previous site was a mess. It was a mess because my "predecessor" threw a bunch of random things together (directory using a database and articles in plain html only) and those who run the charity don't know anything about web design at all. I came in and installed Joomla and designed a few things to work in that installation because it is easy for someone to use AFTER I step away.
If your argument is that Joomla and Drupal have no place because web apps will outpace their development then why is the Joomla extension repository so extensive and growing? For every new app or site that comes along someone will develop a module or plugin for the CMS's because a CMS is easier to handle for a business that doesn't conduct even 50% of it's business online and so there will be a market for easy to use plugins.
If your main argument is your other one: freelancers who install a CMS and call themselves programmers are frauds then I can't really argue with you. For someone to call themselves a developer or programmer simply because they've installed a CMS is silly, but there are plenty of us who are programmers of one type or another that still use a CMS because there is no need to completely redesign the wheel every year. I'm all for people learning to write code, but if everyone wrote code then my abilities would be worthless...
All I'm saying is that the capability threshold of any CMS is irrelevant in terms of web applications because anything can be branded obsolete by anything else at any time (see Wolfram|Alpha vs. Google); and while installing or administrating a CMS doesn't make you a developer on its own, plenty of us developers give a CMS it's value and that's what this book is pointing out!
As our dissociative nature with science and logic becomes entrenched in our Psyche a offering like this only fuels my quest for ignorance and misunderstanding. Why should I shell out good $$$ for "learning" through conventional schooling when I can just read these and interpret them however I want and argue loudly and incorrectly when drunk? Thank you Bloomsbury...thank you.
That's the exact amount of money a mad scientist would want to disarm a nuclear bomb he built himself and placed in a heavily populated area. A byproduct of his mad-genius nuke is the same plutonium-238 isotope, and he doesn't know what to do with it!!! We need to get these people together.
(Stewie has shrunk himself and inserted himself into Peter's body to kill sperm. He doesn't want a little brother until he meets his match--his sperm brother who looks and acts like him.)
Stewie: You hate Lois? I hate Lois too! What, what else do you hate? Sperm Bro: People who send pictures of their families as Christmas Cards! Stewie: People who use the word "guesstimate." Sperm Bro: Guys who wear sandals with socks! Stewie & Sperm Bro in unison: JASON PATRICK! (flap hands effiminently, jump up and down and say "EWWWW!" together)."
There are graphics issues with the eeePC as well. It has to do with how the Intel chips are threading the graphics processing to the onboard GPU. Check it
You're going to have tiling issues and graphics threading issues with the UNR. I'm not sure if eeebuntu uses the UNR by default, but I know Easy Peasy does (that's a dumb name). To prevent the tiling issue you'll have to install the.40 kernel instead of the.41 which ships with the release candidate 9.04. You can get that here.
I put a post on this thread already: I've been using this for a month w/ my eeePC 900 and the only real issue I've had is the tiling issue. I reviewed the options here.
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I'm just sayin'...they shoulda called it a firewall instead of "burning walls"....it appears science has no room for marketing.
Her only direction was to put her elbow into it...
Modding Portal to import the maps from Half-Life 2 allows you to use the Portal gun to drop yourself into areas of the map that definitely not intended for a player to roam. None of it is that interesting, however you can jump your way through a map in about 2 minutes that way :)...kinda defeats the purpose of playing the game. Its far more fun to use the Portal gun to drop Combine troops into a loop so they just keep falling :).
Just about anything with .deb works like a cross between .rpm in Red Hat type builds and .exe in Windows.
Lets take Skype for example: If you go to Skype's Linux Download page after you click on the "Download" button they ask you what distro you're using. Regardless of what it says you just need to pick the Ubuntu option. That download will be some long string of letters and numbers ending with i386.deb. Save that to your directory of choice (probably /home/user and if you're nasty /home/user/Download...in this way /home/user acts just like C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents). Now all you have to do is double-click that file just like you would skype.exe in Windows and the Synaptic Package Manager will pretty much do the rest similar to how Windows Application Manager does.
Now there are situations where its more involved like if you want to compile your own .deb package or something, or if you're installing a .bin file, but even then it isn't really too hard considering Ubuntu's deep forum support. When it comes to business environments most network admins in small or large businesses limit what a user can install anyway. If you'd want a program installed on your office PC you'd ask the admin who'd be able to take care of it regardless.
Another easy way to install apps in Linux is through the repositories and GNOME's Add/Remove Applications feature. This feature works the same in a Fedora build as it would in Ubuntu, but Ubuntu also has the Synaptic Package Manager to give you a GUI of your repository options. With these options its as easy as checking off what you want, then putting in the root password, then using the app! That's even easier than Windows!
Your webcam may be driver related in which case, yeah you'll probably be working from terminal a lot. Many webcams don't have proper Linux driver support (like my Orbit!) but that's more of a strike against the manufacturer or the community (in Ubuntu's case Canonical) than the distro itself (its not Ubuntu's fault nobody wants to get the drivers ready for your device...there are a lot of devices to figure out!).
Hmmm...I disagree in part:
For most distro's Linux is far from being ready for the desktop for a variety of reasons. Fedora 11 came out yesterday and it couldn't be more involved to get working (I still can't get the proper alsa drivers installed!...oh and dropping out to shell is for some reason impossible for me?) but the ever popular Ubuntu is just about ripe for the picking in business environments.
The learning curve to admin a Linux network may be fairly involved, but to just use it to process documents and surf the web (which is most desk jobs) there is no learning curve. Example: my wife couldn't be more computer illiterate. Her notebook has been on the fritz lately due to hardware issues so she's been back and forth between my netbook running Ubuntu and my desktop running Windows 7. For someone who's only really used XP for the past couple of years she found each OS equally user friendly. To be fair I'm using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which has really big buttons that say exactly what a particular app is and does, but she still understands the basic Applications>Internet>Firefox.
That said I also understand there are more specialized applications that are better suited for Windows for certain professionals. By no means is Linux a viable option for every situation, however the Ubuntu desktop option is certainly valid enough to be offered. The learning curve for basic use is all but non-existent and over-stated. If a small business can save $100 per PC for their receptionists and account executives by using Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org what is wrong with giving them the option? I for one have respect for Dell for being this open minded :)
P.S. I've been playing with Edubuntu and Sugar (OLPC) on SD cards on my netbook for my 2-year-old and even SHE understands how to use it...to a certain extent....well she understands banging on the keyboard makes things happen. Also she understands 'sudo give me ice cream' gets her a nice bowl of vanilla.
You sir are a genius! If these "scientists" try and display this one day to the public or for a nobel prize panel you should show up with the power of rock and destroy their evil!
hahahaha! YES!
"Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven."
"Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. "
Big time! Nothing makes a young lad more popular with the ladies than a degree in Astrophysics from a community college.
Hey ladies, my love is like T^2 = (4 pi^2 a^3)/(G (m_1+m_2))
...I copied the equation from Wolfram|Alpha...I'm smart like the kid said...at searching search engines.
I am having sound issues as well. 1 out of every 3 times (without fail) I put my Win7 machine to sleep it wakes up w/no audio claiming it cannot find the device. I'm using an Asus motherboard with onboard sound. The C-Media CM6501 Audio Driver is what I would be using, and have tried, but to no avail.
I'm also having problems with disc encryption. I whole disc encrypted my XP partition which is fine, accept when it is mounted in my Win7 partition Win7 can't "fall asleep". This has nothing to do with the sound problems, its just interesting and I thought I'd mention it. I solved both problems by just not putting my Win7 machine to sleep :)
Is it me or does it seem like the idea of intellectual property is evolving? I guess all this legal round-about is simply the growing pains? To me it all just seems irrelevant (the situation, not the article). In the end we're just arguing over what to do with ourselves...kinda like debating in the mirror over which hand to service yourself with and this time each hand is wearing the other's glove?
I can't tell if that's an accurate analogy but it talks about servicing oneself so I guess that's funny.
Thats not fair to say. 11 is the first distro that allows use of ext4 with Fedora, and I do mention that the problems with GPU probably have little to do with what we're talking about, but that I've also had issues with data loss etc so it is relevant. I simply thought all bugs should be noted and it wasn't my intention to stray off topic.
Ive used it for the past few months on my netbook, however I've only recently tried the Fedora 11 build on ext4 on my desktop. I was impressed w/ the boot speed on my netbook, and for the netbook thats all that really matters. I had absolutely no problems w/ the netbook using Jaunty UNR and ext4.
I did have some problems w/Fedora on my desktop though. It booted nice, and did all the easy stuff well (web browsing, office stuff, etc.) but it got all screwy w/Wine and Eclipse. It might be the GPU I have, or the lack of driver support for Fedora w/it, but Wine ran extremely badly with Steam and Left 4 Dead as compared to a Fedora 10 build w/ ext3. Also I had the typically reported problems w/ext4 and data loss when I was doing some Android dev in Eclipse.
Like anything new in the open source community there are bugs to be hashed out. If nobody uses it and nobody reports the bugs then it won't get better. The boot speed gives it value. Windows 7 RC is booting only slightly slower than ext4 (at least on my system) so if Linux is going to make its stand its got to do certain things to make it distinct. I believe simple things like boot-time and broad dev support are the areas that Linux can shine and to that end it appeals to the right clientele to take it in the right direction as a community. :)
Is that the Canadian's downloaded the plagiarized reports via BitTorrent.
The available language packs went from 4 to like 30 and there were I think 4 critical updates and 1 to IE8 in Windows 7 RC. I installed the updates (not the languages) and restarted...only to have boot problems. As someone who never bought or got into Vista I imagine that frustration (boot FAIL) is what Vista users have felt this whole time...my condolences.
A little over a year ago I moved from FL to MD and I had DirecTv. I moved for a job with short notice so my fiancee and I had to move in with her mother for a month until we found a place. The DirecTv followed us to MD for free, but when we moved to our condo there was a problem.
DirecTV doesn't state it online but when you move using their "Movers Connection" you've agreed to extend your service by 6 months, and you've agreed not to move again for those same 6 months. If you do move or cancel within those 6 months they charge you the full cost of your original move plus fees...and they charge your card automatically!
Like I said there was no notice online of such a stipulation, nor did the agent who set up my original move inform me of that criteria. My card was charged $600 4 days before my wedding putting me overdrawn and causing my rent to bounce...putting me down an additional $1500...and I had to pay for some things for the wedding. When I questioned DirecTV about the agreement they said there is no place to view it online, they dont have a document to send, but they assured me that I did, in fact, agree to some silly agreement by moving in the first place.
This story is relevant to the posting because of the automatic withdraw. If they billed me that is one thing, I could call them and work it out, but instead they automatically took money off of my default method of payment simply because it was there. How is this OK with people?! Eventually I got all of my money refunded and a full apology from DirecTV for the hassle...needless to say Im with Verizon FiOS now.
This whole thing burns me up. I think Penny Arcade summed up our collective frustration nicely here. I have been working on creating a wiki to translate user agreements to plain English so we can all get an easier glimpse at the crap we're agreeing to, and the "rights" we forfeit to our utilities etc. Furthermore the site will branch off into areas where those who are commonly disadvantaged can come together to take legal action against companies who blatantly violate their privacy (like Skype did in the post) or their right to know what they agreed to (like my DirecTV situation). Government is supposed to enforce what we the people deem morally just, yet it seems that whatever the government deems legal we all assume is moral...that doesn't make sense to me. Its about time we started revisiting how we're conducting ourselves in my opinion.
I don't think that analogy works exactly...what I was saying is that coding, unlike driving, is more specialized. It would not be beneficial for everyone in society to take the time to learn PHP or Java, however it would benefit everyone to know how to transport themselves great distances in a small amount of time. It would not benefit anyone for everyone to learn how to code, it would only cheapen it all.
Also drivers did get paid well until driving was common...and I don't mean to sound elitist but software development is a bit more technical than cab driving...
I installed a Joomla site for a latino non-profit in Baltimore who's previous site was a mess. It was a mess because my "predecessor" threw a bunch of random things together (directory using a database and articles in plain html only) and those who run the charity don't know anything about web design at all. I came in and installed Joomla and designed a few things to work in that installation because it is easy for someone to use AFTER I step away.
If your argument is that Joomla and Drupal have no place because web apps will outpace their development then why is the Joomla extension repository so extensive and growing? For every new app or site that comes along someone will develop a module or plugin for the CMS's because a CMS is easier to handle for a business that doesn't conduct even 50% of it's business online and so there will be a market for easy to use plugins.
If your main argument is your other one: freelancers who install a CMS and call themselves programmers are frauds then I can't really argue with you. For someone to call themselves a developer or programmer simply because they've installed a CMS is silly, but there are plenty of us who are programmers of one type or another that still use a CMS because there is no need to completely redesign the wheel every year. I'm all for people learning to write code, but if everyone wrote code then my abilities would be worthless...
All I'm saying is that the capability threshold of any CMS is irrelevant in terms of web applications because anything can be branded obsolete by anything else at any time (see Wolfram|Alpha vs. Google); and while installing or administrating a CMS doesn't make you a developer on its own, plenty of us developers give a CMS it's value and that's what this book is pointing out!
As our dissociative nature with science and logic becomes entrenched in our Psyche a offering like this only fuels my quest for ignorance and misunderstanding. Why should I shell out good $$$ for "learning" through conventional schooling when I can just read these and interpret them however I want and argue loudly and incorrectly when drunk? Thank you Bloomsbury...thank you.
That's the exact amount of money a mad scientist would want to disarm a nuclear bomb he built himself and placed in a heavily populated area. A byproduct of his mad-genius nuke is the same plutonium-238 isotope, and he doesn't know what to do with it!!! We need to get these people together.
I'm ruined...
(Stewie has shrunk himself and inserted himself into Peter's body to kill sperm. He doesn't want a little brother until he meets his match--his sperm brother who looks and acts like him.)
Stewie: You hate Lois? I hate Lois too! What, what else do you hate?
Sperm Bro: People who send pictures of their families as Christmas Cards!
Stewie: People who use the word "guesstimate."
Sperm Bro: Guys who wear sandals with socks!
Stewie & Sperm Bro in unison: JASON PATRICK! (flap hands effiminently, jump up and down and say "EWWWW!" together)."
I hate people who use socks w/ sandals. ...and Jason Patrick! eeeewwwwww
There are graphics issues with the eeePC as well. It has to do with how the Intel chips are threading the graphics processing to the onboard GPU. Check it
You're going to have tiling issues and graphics threading issues with the UNR. I'm not sure if eeebuntu uses the UNR by default, but I know Easy Peasy does (that's a dumb name). To prevent the tiling issue you'll have to install the .40 kernel instead of the .41 which ships with the release candidate 9.04. You can get that here.
I put a post on this thread already: I've been using this for a month w/ my eeePC 900 and the only real issue I've had is the tiling issue. I reviewed the options here.