Automation Adventures

Of course, after finally breaking down last night and installing Codeweaver’s CrossOver Office to install iTunes, today I see this article in Linux Journal on how to use your iPod with Ubuntu.
The article shows a few options to sync music, and also explains how to sync photos and change the default application that’s opened when [...]

I came across this little gizmo the other day. I’m not quite sure what it is, as the makers decided they wouldn’t mark it as an alarm clock, or a radio, or anything like that. They marked it as a Chumby.
Apparently this is the next generation of alarm clocks/photo frames/whatchamacallits. It’s a small computer, with [...]

Wired magazine has an article summing up the pros and cons of CableCard technology. CableCards are essential to the TiVo Series 3 (it sports 2 CableCard slots), and a recent federal appeals court ruling requires cable companies to support them.
In short:Advantages:

No cable box needed
Can be sent through mail
No need for kludges like an IR blaster

Disadvantages:

One-way [...]

Slowly but surely I’m getting to a working Ubuntu workstation. Tonight I finally made some time to set up the VPN connection - thereby freeing myself from lugging a Windows laptop to and from work every day…
Instrumental in setting this up were two websites: PattonCentral (describing his experiences on setting up version 4.6 and 4.8 [...]

In the Google Talk blog, Lewis Lin announces that plans are underway to “explore interoperability” between Google Talk and Skype. The press release is here.
Since they seem to be in the exploratory stages, it may be some time before we actually see the product on the market. It will also be interesting to see how [...]