So the OpenMoko Neo Freerunner mobile phone has been available in SA for a while now, and I can’t wait to get my hands on one, due to various situations this wasn’t likely to happen soon.
Then I stumbled apon a competition at WebAddict, so now I have a chance to win one, not only will I have an awesome phone that I can install Debian or Google Android on, but I’ll have a replacement for the 5800 that was stolen a couple of weeks ago… 
Checkout the competion, it’s really an awesome phone…
So for a while now I have had google syncing my contacts and calendar with my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Google Symbian Sync
Then earlier today I stumbled apon “how to sync evolution with googles pim apps” which allows me to sync my contacts and calendar with Evolution (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook)
This is awesome, now if I add a contact to either my phone, gmail or evolution it gets synced across all devices… #FTW!!!
Nov 22
My 100th entry 
New Toys
Cecilia and myself were looking over the finances the other day, and due to her laptop giving issues, and myself not having a decent machine. At the moment iBurst is running a special where you get a netbook, USB modem and 1Gb bandwidth a month We found it would be cheaper to cancel the current Internet connection and get two of these and external hosting.
I am currently writing this post on my netbook.
The netbook is a Samsung N140.
Hosting
For the past couple of years I have been hosting this blog on my server at home, I got static IP from iBurst which helped. unfortunatly due to bandwidth usage and cost I have had to move this blog offsite (moved my mail a couple of months ago)
So this blog is now hosted by A Small Orange, and thanks goes out to Geoff Garbers for suggesting them
Well now back to setting up a dev enviroment on the netbook…
Nov 15
So last night I installed DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54GL
So far it’s pretty kewl…
Next step Serial Port Hack and MMC hack and then Debian…
Nov 14
So I finally got myself the Linksys WRT54GL and now my network hardware went from:
And now after:
Now to try load DD-WRT onto her, and then eventually Debian…
Also finally sorted out the laptop that I am using, well the screen was moved to Cecilia’s laptop and this one was using the external, with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Well just waiting for the last couple of thing to finish on Cecilia’s laptop (had to reinstall) and then off to bed…
Sep 24
In my last post I mentioned how to get this printer working in Debian, and since then have found a better (no ignoring dependancies) method.
Taken from: http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canon-pixma-ip1800-for-debian-lenny/
This is a cheap inkjet printer that I got for my temporary printing needs. The cartridges are very expensive (> $16 !!), so for heavy use this isn’t really worth my money. Anyways…
Install CUPS and printing-related packages:
# apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client libcupsys2 # apt-get install cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-bsd # apt-get install foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-filters # apt-get install hp-ppd linuxprinting.org-ppds printfilters-ppd # apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds # apt-get install gs-gpl libpng3 ijsgutenprint
(Note that I downloaded a few packages that are not necessary for this particular printer. This is a generic collection of packages that I find useful to use printers in other places like my office.)
Download deb packages of the printer driver:
cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb
and install them:
# dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb
If CUPS has been installed properly, visit the CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631/admin) with your browser. You will be able to configure the printer in the standard CUPS way.
Taken from: http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canon-pixma-ip1800-for-debian-lenny/
I copied and pasted so I have a copy incase that site disapears.
Was going through my rss feeds and found the following on Planet Ubuntu: http://simos.info/blog/archives/1000
I now can’t wait till I get a new PC
Hopefully this helps others out there who don’t need/want windows, there are other alternatives: http://distrowatch.com
So, I’ve been using this phone for a while now, and it’s quite awesome… Well when using all the features the battery only seems to last about a day and a half, but that’s with WIFI and GPS on, so not too surprized…
The GPS and Nokia maps isn’t too bad, managed to get me to a couple of places I needed to go, one annoying thing though is that sometimes it wants me to take an offramp and then an onramp to the same hiway… *weird*
Still need to try get this phone to sync with my PC, just havn’t really had the time to play with it…
I really like the touch screen, and the multiple”keyboards” pity they only in qwerty format… and too small to use like a pc keyboard…
Well overall I think it was a great choise, now to find some decent logging software so I can contribute to openstreetmaps.org
So today I got my new Phone, after loosing my old one, and then sending my temporary one through the wash 
First off, thank you and sorry Cecilia, I know that this has “messed” up the accounts
Offhand this is a fairly nice phone, just need to get used to it, will report more on it later…
Oct 6
Well depends what normal means I suppose.
Well I got my phone back this morning (well a new one), now to get it setup and all that good stuff (am looking for a waterproof cover 
).
And then also Catelyn goes back to creche tomorrow, which means that the Germans are gone, and her chest has cleared nicely (still a little bit of a runny nose but that should be gone by tomorrow)
Also have “installed” the removable hdd on to shredder and once I have finished setting up a couple of paths and shares this should be accessible to all on the network. Unfortunately I have to setup samba for sharing with that other OS, but at least it’s easy.