Sean Reiser

One thing I wanted to do on the new seanreiser.com was have flickr sets as first class nodes. Nothing against the way the flickr module and flickr sets module creates a page flickr sets page, I just wanted something a little different. Quite frankly I wanted access to all the viewsy goodness drupal can give. Also as flickr doesn't provide an RSS for flickrsets I can have Drupal provide it for me.

I've spent some time today ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on an eeePC 901. All the information on how to do it is out there but scattered across a number of websites so I'm putting together a quick howto. The ubuntu site has a lot of information on 700 and 900 but not a lot on 901. As the hardware is mostly the same for the 1000, I suspect that a good deal of this will work on that unit, but I have no practical experience with the 1000. I am assuming that you have some linux knowledge and are relatively comfortable in a terminal.

There are a number of ways of doing this. The eee doesn't have a CD/DVD drive and I didn't have a USB drive handy so I did the install off a USB Stick.

As regular readers of my blog know I'm using Drupal's ActivityStream module to power the Life Stream page on my site. I've wanted to add an activity stream block and remove the twitter / lastfm blocks for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it until tonight. It's a short function but I figure I'll post it in case someone else is looking for it.

Just add the following function to activitystream.module

I noticed that items from my activity stream were popping up in the last viewed (and potentially most popular content). As I'd rather not show these items I've changed statistics_title_list in drupal's statistics.module as follows:

function statistics_title_list($dbfield, $dbrows) {
return db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid, n.title, u.uid, u.name FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {node_counter} s ON n.nid = s.nid INNER JOIN {users} u ON n.uid = u.uid WHERE %s <> '0' AND n.status = 1 and (n.type = 'story' OR n.type = 'page') ORDER BY %s DESC"), 's.'. $dbfield, 's.'. $dbfield, 0, $dbrows);
}