Archive for the ‘Ubuntu Linux’ 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 ...

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. ...