eee-control is so far the best utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux.
It definitely does its job, instead of the now obsolete not-working-at-all eee-applet program, and has is even better than eeepc-tray, whose development has now been explicitly stopped by its author, for a couple of reasons:

has better hardware control for powersaving (e.g. [...]

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Nowadays more and more cameras that support higher and higer resolution are available to the consumer market at an affordable price. The question is, is it really always that useful to have a 12Mb jpeg image?
In linux you can downsize your pictures by reducing the image resolution and size automatically through the command line with [...]

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Probably the main reason I consider HP Pavilion laptops worth buying is that they can be opened and disassembled very easily. This enables you (or your local computer repair shop) to perform a whole set of maintenance activities and to upgrade most parts without needing to send the laptop to some far HP authorized center. [...]

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Today I’ve found this page, I have to admit this guy is indeed clever!
Laptop Cooling. It is the strangest thing that all laptops have the same design fault. If operated on the “lap”, the needed cooling will be blocked off, it will overheat, and may eventually abruptly halt. Here’s how I modified mine so the [...]

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