As well as this we need to also tell it to look for the $ itself, and to output an array of the variables and just the variable names.

$string = '$Lorem ipsum dolor sit $amet, consectetur '$adipiscing' elit. Vestibulum nulla magna, tristique sit amet tempor ornare, iaculis ut sapien.';
preg_match_all('/[\$]([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)/',$string,$matches);
print_r($matches);

This should output:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => $Lorem [1] => $amet [2] => $adipiscing ) [1] => Array ( [0] => Lorem [1] => amet [2] => adipiscing ) )

Session Manager
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324

Forecastfox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398

Firefox Showcase
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1810

Adblock Plus
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Flash Block
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

Download Statusbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26

Down Them All
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

Scrapbook
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427

VideoDownloader
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390

Flashgot
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220

Downthemall
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

Mouse Gestures
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39

The onboard OS Xandros is ok, but I got bored with it after 5 minutes and just didnt feel as nice as Ubuntu has on my other machines. The boot time is pretty good and it ‘just works’, but thats about all it does.

Instructions

First thing you will need is a USB stick (pref 1gb+) and a way of getting Ubuntu onto it. The distro I went for was Ubuntu eee (Hardy Heron 8.04), but you could use stock Ubuntu(Gnome), Xbuntu (XFCE), etc.

Once the ISO is downloaded, use something like unetbootin to make the USB stick bootable and copy it over. More instructions for this can be found here.

When you have a bootable stick, reboot and hit escape at startup to get the boot menu, choose USB and wait for it to load up.

Once in you get a desktop (as this is a live distro after all), with a single ‘install’ icon. Run this and click through until you reach the partition section. You can either wipe the lot so its just ubuntu, or keep xandros on there for the other half / incase you break anything.

Then setup your user account and press go. It will now start to partition and install.

Once that has done, reboot and you have a fresh copy of Ubuntu. Unfortunately not everything will work, you are initially without working wireless and ethernet, amongst a few other things.

The eeeuser.com community seems to think the easiest way to get it all up and running is to install a custom kernel.

To do this we need to manually download the two packages

1. linux-image-2.6.24-21-eeepc_2.6.24-21.39eeepc1_i386.deb
2. linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-eeepc_2.6.24-21.30eeepc3_i386.deb

and put them onto the eee and run them. Using the terminal, navigate to the directory where you saved the two .deb packages and use this command.

sudo dpkg -i linux-image*.deb linux-ubuntu-modules*.deb

Reboot, and you should have a new entry in your GRUB selection. Choose this. When you are booted up you should have net access, so now its time to update your repositories.

wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array.list

sudo mv -v array.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Install the Array.org repository public key:

wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-apt-key.asc

sudo apt-key add array-apt-key.asc

sudo apt-get update

Finally you need to install the remaining eeepc-optimized kernel components

sudo apt-get install linux-eeepc linux-headers-eeepc

This should have pretty much everything working except the Fn hotkeys, so see how to activate them here. That page has some other useful bits on it too.

Once you have a good working install, back everything up with info from here

Things that now work

• Sound
• Shutdown bug
• Compiz
• Webcam
• Wireless
• Ethernet
• Fn keys
• Multitouch

Things that dont

• Microphone