Update your eeePC using the built in updater. Its the icon with the three stackeed horizontal bars in your task bar.

Update your eeePC using apt-get
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Add a debian repository to apt sources.
sudo echo "ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update and install VLC.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc

Check that VLC is working and find out where it lives.
/home/user> which vlc
/usr/bin/vlc
vlc

Remove the debian repository (otherwise installing applications with apt will bork your eeePC).
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Download and install Launcher tools
wget http://www.3eportal.com/downloads/altools_0.4.3.deb
sudo dpkg -i altools_0.4.3.deb

Download the VLC icons from here to your home directory. [sorry i've lost the link]. Copy them to the Asus Launcher directory.
sudo cp *vlc*.png /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/

Launch the Launcher editor.
suieditor
Create a new icon in the tab you prefer. The name can be VLC. The commands is the output of which vlc from above (probably /usr/bin/vlc). Set the icon set from the list. Then press ‘Save Changes’ and ‘Reload AsusLauncher’ and you’re done.

Wade pulled together a small team to build a prototype semi-autonomous robot in a Victorian dress. Our job was to provide an interface between the web and the controller board. We installed a small webserver on an EeePC netbook. An Adobe Flash socket sent mouse clicks and speech instructions to a tiny Python server that interpreted whether the instructions should be forwarded to the controller board or handled by the EeePC. Speech commands were forwarded to the onboard Festival server using an MBROLA english male voice and then piped to the sound card.