Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Hailing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (and the Eee PC 701)

Monday, October 20th, 2008

(Updated: new steps needed for wireless on Eee PC) Each release of Ubuntu just gets more and more, well, grown-up.  When I started using Ubuntu on the desktop, it was a brave man who would upgrade when a new release became available rather than install from scratch (and keep your fingers ...

Integrating Subversion (SVN) with Bugzilla

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

It's well documented why using a source code control system is a worthwhile investment. Change tracking, team working, a safety-net, release management, control and reporting. And Subversion, a.k.a. svn, is the leading light in the open source world, taking over the mantle from CVS. Subversion is different. It ...

Sync Google Calendar with iPod on Ubuntu Linux

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Create a script to fetch the Google Calendar and copy it to your iPod: # download the Google calendar ical file through the private URL wget -c -N http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/yourname%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics # copy it to the iPod cp basic.ics /media/your-ipod-name/Calendars/google.ics rm basic.ics Now configure Ubuntu so that this script is run whenever you plug your iPod in. ...