I am currently using both Linux and Windows with my iPod. So far, I have found iTunes to be far superior to any of the Linux applications for syncing songs to my iPod, so I usually dual boot into Windows for this purpose (which isn’t all that often these days, now that I’ve got a fair amount of songs on my iPod to get me started until I’ve had a chance to clean up the ID3 tags for the rest of my MP3 collection and rip my remaining CDs)....
After changing my personal emai strategy over the weekend by switching to Gmail, I was motivated to change the way I handle email at work as well. I am currently using Ximian Evolution 1.4 (which has recently become Novell Evolution) on Linux, but I am not quite happy with it. Similar to the way OpenOffice tries (and only superficially succeeds) to emulate Microsoft Office, Evolution emulates Microsoft Outlook. I certainly does a decent job, but at least the 1....
I’ve been thinking about a better email strategy. About 8 years or so ago, when I was still using my university’s email account, I signed up for a forwarding address from Bigfoot (which at the time was still free and without any limitations). This allowed me to keep using the same email address until now, even though the actual mailbox that it was pointing to changed numerous times when I switched ISPs, domains, etc. Bigfoot introduced their own webmail service later, which provided a decent way for me to check my personal email at work, for example. However, there are several problems with this approach: ...
After a bit of fiddling with masked ebuilds, I finally managed to get Bluetooth working with Gnome on my AMD64-based Gentoo system. In case you’re running into similar AMD64-related issues, please check out the following bugs I submitted to the Gentoo bug tracker: The following bug is also relevant: The HOWTO mobile phone, Bluetooth and GNOME Wiki page is also helpful. Note however that this is somewhat outdated. For example, the bluez-sdp package is deprecated and should no longer be used, as its functionality has been rolled into the other bluez packages....
I just moved the Subversion repository that I created on my Windows box some time ago over to my Gentoo box (actually the same box, just a different dual-boot OS, now that I’m phasing out Windows in favor of Gentoo Linux). This was a very smooth operation, and I’m pretty impressed with the way Gentoo’s Apache configuration already accounts for Subversion (which is generally exposed as a WebDAV repository using an extension of the Apache mod_dav module)....