Hi,

I tested two different ways and applications (Rhytmbox and GTKPod).

Ryhtmbox
For using iPod with Rhytmbox you have to change just one thing, if the problem is that the music player closes when you plugin the iPod at the computer (maybe with an error message like that *). Disable the iPod plugin and enable the MTP Plugin.
That's it!
Sometimes there is the problem that the iPod doesn't know the new playlist and you have to try it again.

*error message

(rhythmbox:6478): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_instance_get_private: assertion `instance != NULL && instance->g_class != NULL' failed

GTKPod
For using the better and simplier way use GTKPod. Just install it via apt-get and start it before you connect the iPod to the computer. All other things, you will see, are very easy.

Hi VMware Users,

In the last days I got my chance of my life. I will be there - at the VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas :-).
It starts at Sep. 15 and ends at Sep. 18. For all peoples who want to know more about it can visit the VMworld 2008 page or my blog on VMworld.


Links
VMworld 2008
My Blog

For using a user friendly GUI to handle your UMTS Modem in Gnome you can use the Gnome-PPP. In the background Gnome-PPP uses WvDial to talk with the modem.
All what you need to install is:
-pppd
-WvDial
-Gnome-PPP

Enjoy it!

Tomato is a great firmware for wlan routers. I am using it on any Linksys WRT54GL 1.1 and it's working great!

There are a lot of features like bandwith monitoring, VLANs, QoS, DDNS and so on. The bandwih monitor is a great tool, because you have a overview about the traffic in live mode and also in daily, weekly and monthly graphs.

But for more information have a look at the vendor page.

If you have the problem that the system clock in the virtual machines are running faster then the host based system clock, you have to do the following steps for solving it.

-open the file with root privileges

/etc/vmware/config

-if these lines are not there add this lines above otherwise change it (where 2200000 means your host CPU frequency in kHz)

host.cpukHz = 2200000
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE

-save the changes and restart the vmware services

/etc/init.d/vmware restart

-now the clocks should run perfectly