Tethering (using you’re mobile phone to get your laptop/notebook online) is a quite important feature for me, when I’m at a meeting I do not wish to rely on wireless connections from my customers or the hotel/cafe where I’m at. With my Nokia E90 I used JoikuSpot, which turns the E90 into a wireless accesspoint, worked like a charm but drains the batteries extremely fast. One very big advantage of creating a Wifi-accesspoint is speed; I have 7.2 mbit 3.5G subscription (the E90 only got to 3.2 mbit though), which is too fast for bluetooth, you usually get about 1 mbit from bluetooth.. With wifi I was able to use the full 3.2 mbit my E90 was able to provide.
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buTTon Nokia N900, linux Bluetooth, Internet Sharing, Nokia N900, Tethering, ubuntu
Trackman Marble FX Cordless
My all-time-favorite mouse trackball is the Logitech Trackman Marble FX (Cordless). Logitech stopped making those a couple of years ago, but I’ve bought 5 of them and since the first one still works fine I’ll probably be using this model until USB is replaced with a new kind of port;)
The Trackman FX has 4 buttons and no dedicated scrollwheel. Before Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) I was able to configure the buttons from /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I upgraded from Ubuntu Hedgy (8.04) to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) all the way to Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and Ubuntu dropped the mouse-configuration from xorg.conf in favour of the HAL-device-manager.
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buTTon linux, ubuntu Cordless, HAL, Jaunty, Marble, mouse, Trackman Marble FX, ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04, xorg.conf
I have Ubuntu 8.04 running on my laptop, and with Wimbledon coming up I wanted to install Moonlight , the Linux alternative to Silverlight, since Net5 (the dutch channel airing Wimbledon) only uses Silverlight (annoying!!!)
Installing Moonlight was quite easy, just go to http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/, click on the image under “2. Download the plugin” and Firefox will ask if it may install the Moonlight Add-on. But; Moonlight by itself is quite useless without the copyrighted audio & video codecs from Microsoft. Novell (moonlight’s daddy) can’t distribute those codecs in Moonlight itself and you need to install them after Moonlight has been installed. This is supposed to be easy, go to the Moonlight-website, rightclick on the notice at the top saying “Congratulations!! You’re running the current release of Moonlight” and select “install microsoft codecs”. You’ll need to accept that you’re willing to sell your soul to Microsoft .. eh.. the EULA and the codecs will be downloaded and installed.
However, after the download I got the message “Permission Denied“. Obviously some directory was off limits for me, but I didn’t know which directory. So I tried to install Moonlight and the codecs as root, gksudo firefox, which went fine. Next I started looking for files, where did Moonlight leave the codecs? In /usr/lib? /usr/share/firefox? I found it in the home-directory of root; /root/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight/silverlight-media-pack-linux-x86-5-1.so. Next stop; copy the .so-file to my own home-directory, but wtf? No directory /home/[me]/.mozilla/plugins? So.. i created the directory, and while I was at it, also created /home/[me]/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight, chmodded it to allow writing by me and tried to install the codecs; Success!!! And they actually work; the codecs:)
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buTTon Personal, linux, ubuntu firefox 3, microsoft codecs, moonlight, permission denied, ubuntu
