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Set it and forget it: Tether your Windows Mobile 6 Phone to Linux

Posted Sat, 09/06/2008 - 22:15 by Justin Ellison

I have a love/hate relationship with my phone - an HTC PPC6800. I can't live without it - I can check my work email from anywhere, and surf the web. While I've tried many PDA's through the years, none of them have stuck, because I got tired of lugging them around. I always have my phone with me, so therefore my smartphone has made me much more organized. My wife loves it because I can remember all the upcoming appointments. Yet, I hate it. It's UI is horrible. It locks up and needs rebooted, and I feel dirty using a M$ product.

Well, I found one more reason to like it. I can tether my Ubuntu laptop to my phone and get Internet access from just about anywhere. This howto is for Ubuntu, but it should work for any distro that uses bluez-utils. Note that I briefly tried to get my laptop tethered via USB, but I found several comments that it wouldn't work without a custom kernel module. Bluetooth is easier, works out of the box, and is much cooler besides ;-)

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Reporting Chrome usage via AWStats

Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:39 by Justin Ellison

AWStats is a great tool to analyze your Apache logs. Unless you've been living under a rock, there's a new browser in town - Chrome. Until you tell AWStats how to break it out for you, you won't see any statistics for it. Read on for how to modify AWStats so that it can detect the Chrome browser.

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Use GMail as an SMTP relay using SSMTP

Posted Mon, 09/01/2008 - 21:05 by Justin Ellison

On some of your home workstations, and especially on a laptop, setting up a full-blown SMTP server such as Postfix, Sendmail, or Exim might be overkill.  Follow the jump to learn how to setup the lightweight ssmtp to relay all outbound mail through your GMail account by using Gmail as a smarthost.

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User-level configuration of CPU speed in Gnome under Ubuntu

Posted Sat, 08/09/2008 - 14:08 by Justin Ellison

When I ran Fedora on my laptop, I loved how I could manually set the CPU speed in Gnome using the "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" applet.  I noticed that I could not do this under Ubuntu (you can monitor speed, but you can't change it).

It's actually a feature, not a bug.  In order to change CPU frequency, the binary needs to be SUID, which Ubuntu doesn't enable by default.  In order to change this behavior, run the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
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