Following on from last week’s post. We now need to setup the client.
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I did this on Debian but these instruction should work equally well for Ubuntu
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I just replaced my potop install with openvpn. It is relatively easy to set up, and once working it is more secure, and much. much faster. From my completely unscientific, anecdotal observations, about 3 times faster.
I will get around to writing a full howto in the next week or so.
I was given an Google ION to play with. It is the developer phone from the 2009 Google IO Conference, basically an HTC Magic with some developer stuff enabled. I really liked it.
The OS is nice, I upgraded to the OpenEclair ROM to give 2.1 a try. It was way to slow on the Magic but it gave me an appreciation for where google is going, and I would love a Nexus One. I also tried rolling my own android ROM and it was surprisingly easy.
I installed the Cyanogen ROM. It was nice. Fast and Stable. My problem is simple. The Magic has a fairly small screen and the default Android fonts are tiny. I can’t use it. After 5 minutes, my eyes hurt and I can no longer focus them. My eyes are crap, but I have no problem using the iPhone. So for the moment I am sticking with my iPhone. When the Nexus One finally makes it to Australia, I will get one I think.
Diego Giagio has built coded a Linux network driver to allow USB tethering with an unmodified iPhone. The source and more info can be found at: http://giagio.com/wiki/moin.cgi/iPhoneEthernetDriver.
For an easy to install Ubuntu package use this PPA, from pmcenery.
Gmail Notifier is the best gmail checker I have found. It makes use of libnotify and the Indicator Applet in GNOME, so it plugs in brilliantly with Karmic
Getting Ubuntu on a HP mini 100 is well documented and well supported, to make wireless and ethernet work see here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Karmic
Thing is, the driver packges needed by the Broadcom Wireless card are on the Install Media, they are just not included in the default install set. So a couple of commands during the install process and you can have wireless working on first boot.
Install Ubuntu. After install, before you hit restart press: ctrl+alt+F1
At the terminal prompt:
$ sudo su - # chroot /target # aptitude install bcmwl-kernel-sources
Now press ctrl+alt+F7 and click Reboot. You should now have wireless on first boot.
I have been frustrated with the Exchange server here at work, and found that Evolution MAPI support simply crashes everytime I try it. It is in the ubuntu bug list if you want to go hunting. And I really don’t like Evolution anyway.
But I just found DavMail, and it appears to work great. It is basically a java program that connects to an Outlook OWA (up tp 2007) and presents the information through standard services IMAP/SMTP/CalDAV. So I can now use Sunbird as my Calendar client, pointing it to a CalDAV server running on localhost, and it seems to work a treat. Installation is straightforward on most platforms and after a bit of fidlling with the settings it is up and running.
You know the font situation on debian and gnome isn’t terrible in lenny. Actually it looks fairly decent. Until you load icedove (thunderbird).
The fonts are teeny, pixelated and hard to read. Luckily it is a very easy fix.
Open icedove, go to “Edit -> Preference -> Advanced -> Config Editor”
Change the value for “layout.css.dpi” from “-1″ to “0″
Restart icedove
My move to rackspace is complete, dreamhost is only providing my DNS now. Being able to control my own apache configs is brilliant. And the site seems faster enough, perhaps even a little faster.