As requested by Carls in my last post on Ubuntu on eee PC I’ll post a short walk through for the mentioned operations.
Attention, this is very nerdy stuff below this line…
Update: Simplehelp.net just posted a very complete description on how to install Ubuntu on eee PCs.

After the rant by THE Walt Mossberg completely dissing Mobile Me an saying is “Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable” I found a way where it can be handy…
After a few tries I got iDisk to work on my eee PC Ubuntu setup in order to share/backup files between all my machines.
Here is how:

Go to the Places Menu
Choose Connect to Server
Select Service type: WebDAV
Enter Server: idisk.me.com
enter your username in the “Folder” field (important, otherwise it won’t work!)
enter your username in the “Username” field
Leave the other fields blank
Press Connect

And …

I finally bit the bullet and installed eeebuntu on my eee PC.
I still keep a dual-boot XP on it just in case but I want to see how far I can go with the Ubuntu variant.
The decision was easy as I started to get serious lag on XP lately for opening documents or downloading small files.
So far eeebuntu is snappy, all the components work (I had to reinstall the kernel and recompile the webcam drivers) and I found that almost all programs that I use regularly are somehow available …