I’m back to Italy and I’m using an Alice Pirelli router as internet gateway. This kind of router is unfortunately pretty standard here although it’s very crappy.
The Pirelli wireless router is a very basic device and looks that its signal strength is not enough for my macbook pro.
The Pirelli device is placed in the living room and between me and the router there is just a wall. Despite all my devices (Phones/PCs) in this room are able to get a good signal strength, my macbook pro doesn’t.
One time more, I would like to know what makes this laptop cool.. except the brand..

Since my new barebone doesn’t have any CD/DVD reader, I had to install linux via USB HDD.
I hadn’t find a good documentation about this topic, then I’ve decided to write this little post.
Well… things are pretty simple:
1) Install “unetbootin” with “apt-get” or from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2) Download latest version of KUbuntu from KUbuntu.org
3) plug your usb mass storage device (usb dongle or HDD)
4) format it with mkfs.ex3 /dev/sdX where X is the letter of your device
(to know that letter you could read last dmesg lines)
5) run unetbootin
6) select the image
7) click “Create” unplug the usb device from the first linux box and plug it in to the barebone.
9) Switch the barebone on.
10) Press F8 (If you have an ASUS motherboard) to boot from USB
11) grub will say that it can’t load “linux” kernel
12) to run your image write this: “ubnkern ubninit boot=casper BOOT=casper nopersistent rw

That’s all. Good installation! ;D