First, thanks to generalantilles and schmots! As I stated in the original post, this was meant to be a stepping stone for fuller explanation/guide for novices.

I take issues with what generalantilles has stated regarding the wifi settings and disabling the metalayer-crawler. I AM a newbie when it comes to the NIT devices; I've barely had the unit myself for only about a month. I have to admit that I am quite comfortable with Linux, having used RedHat since 1997, not Debian, though.

Reading through the forum, I see lots of people complaining about their batteries draining after flashing to the latest OS2008--it turned out that the buggy metalayer-crawler process was hogging up cpu/ram and draining the battery.

If you disable the daemon from starting up, you won't have the problem of dead battery. However, the downside is that, as generalantilles pointed out, your built-in media player won't be able to automagically find your media (music, movies and whatnot) residing on your sd cards. You CAN still open your media files manually from within the media player. This is why I'd recommend that you disable the metalayer-crawler daemon. You not only save your battery, but also get more memory space and less wasted cpu cycles. On some forum discussions, some people have reported the metalayer-crawler seizing up 60 MB of RAM and 100% CPU.

IMHO, Nokia should just remove/disable the metalayer-crawler daemon. There's really no need for it on the NIT. It's like the Microsoft Vista's bloated background services, all of which are bug-ridden. The more you stop these background services from starting up and running, the better off you are. Same thing with the current Fedora/RHEL releases--they're headed to bloatwareville, as well. I'm switching over to Ubuntu.

Regarding the Sony AA batteries, the ones I have bought are manufactured by Sanyo. They may not be the Eneloops, but they're also less expensive and perform just as well.

Anyway, to each his own. I'm just saying that everyone should have the options and often noobs don't know that they have the options.

Ciao,

J