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I was not aware until yestereday is that it's possible to import your Facebook Calendar into any Calendar Software / PIM that supports iCal and Web calendars.
To make that possible you just have to open your Facebook Event overwiew:



By clicking on that link you can open a pop-up that presents to you the link you will need to insert, when you create a new calendar in your favourite calendar client. Almost all PIM and calendar apps support iCal nowadays.

A few day ago I stumbled over the desktop widget "Conky". Convinced by the nice configurations some people had running, I decided to give it a shot. Conky is quite flexible and powerful, that's why it has it's own kind of scripting language.
The script for the individual configuration is stored in the .conkyrc file. I spend the last few days tweaking my configuration, starting with the one from here. For my configuration to run you need to install at least parts of the conky-colors package which also delivers you the fonts you need.
I didn't really install the conky-color package though, just downloaded and unpacked it. The scripts I needed I copied into a hidden folder in my home directory (.conky-scripts/). The conkyVinyl Script for the cover art was modified by me. You also need an account for weather.com to use the weather Script, as explained in this post.
I ended up with the design you can see in the screenshot. The fastest way to get my setup is to unpack this ZIP-File in your home-directory and rename conky-scripts to .conky-scripts and conkyWeather.conf in .conkyWeather.conf (after you added your settings in there) and install the three fonts. After that you can use my .conkyrc as provided underneath. I hope you like it!
[My conky-config after the jump.]

Ubuntu Jaunty (9.10) has the nice new dark look for the status icons. But this is only working if you use the "Humanity-Dark" icon theme.

I wanted to have another icon theme, but keep the nice dark status icons. So I had a look at the Humanity-Dark icon folder in /usr/share/icons/ and discovered, that this is only an overlay of the normal Humanity icon theme. So this overlay could be used for my favourite icon theme as well. So I just made a copy of the Humanity-Dark folder (if you want to make a new folder in /usr/share/icons you have to be root of course) and changed the name of the new folder to Colors-Dark (because I want to inherit from the gnome colors theme). In the Colors-Dark folder you have to modify the index.theme file, to use another theme than the Humanity one. First you should change the name to avoid confusion. For example Name=Colors-Dark. After that the important part comes: change the inherit value to your prefered icon theme. For example Inherits=gnome-wise if you want to use gnome wise. That's already everything you have to do. If there is any icon-cache file you better remove and recreate it. You can use gtk-update-icon-cache to create a new cache. Now you have your nice new icons being used, when you choose the Colors-Dark theme, but the dark ubuntu-icons stay.

Ich darf mich inzwischen auch zum elesenen Kreis der Google Wave Benutzer (bzw. Account-Besitzer) zählen. Da ja jeder 8 weitere Invites vergeben darf, würde ich die jetzt an gierig wartende vergeben. Also wer das mit dem/der Wave mal ausprobierten möchte hinterlässt einfach einen Kommentar. Ich schick dann einfach ein invite an die hinterlegte Email-Adresse.

Nachdem ich seit ca. zwei Wochen im Besitz eines Netbooks bin, möchte ich auch hier mal über meine Erfahrungen berichten. Besonders auch zu Betriebssystemen die sich für solche Rechner anbieten.

Hardware:
Ich habe mich für ein Eee-PC Modell von ASUS entschieden. Nach einiger Recherche scheint wohl das Modell 1005HA-M das mit derzeit bestem Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis zu sein. Nachdem dessen knapper Vogänger plötzlich nichtmehr verfügbar war, habe ich dann dieses Modell erstanden, dass trotz Windows-XP™ Lizenz auch günstiger war. Außerdem hat das M-Modell einen matten Bildschirm (also auch für draußen geeignet), eine lange Akkulaufzeit (angeblich 8Std.) und eine angenehme Größe, so dass man noch gut drauf tippen kann.
Nach ca. 2-wöchiger Benutzung bin ich eigentlich auch ganz Zufrieden mit der Hardware, auch wenn der Akku eigentlich noch nie 8 Stunden durchgehalten hat, hält er doch einen Uni-Tag ohne Netzteil durch.
Note: Der Rechner wird zwar nur mit Windows ausgeliefert, alle Komponenten funktionieren aber problemlos mit Linux (inkl. WLAN und Webcam).

Ich habe die letzte Stunde mal ein bisschen mit Google-Trends herumgespield und verschiedene Such-Statistiken miteinander verglichen. Ich hatte unter anderem die Idee, mal verschiedene Parteien miteinander zu vergleichen. Man kann sogar sehen, wie die Piratenpartei an Popularität gewinnt . Mir ist natürlich klar das die Google-Statistiken nicht immer repäsentativ sind, aber es ist doch interessant damit zu spielen!



Ein paar weitere interessante Gegenüberstellungen:

• Obama vs. McCain
• Facebook vs. MySpace
• Miniova vs. Piratebay
• Aids vs. Cancer
• Religion vs. Politics

To use the build in printserver of the Samsung router SMT-G3210 with Linux, you usuall have to know which print-protocol is used. Since I have the router at home already I wanted to use it for printing over the network. I just had to plug in the usb of my printer into the router and the printer was already recognized, as I could see in the routers webfrontend. Know I didn't know how to set the printer up on my Ubuntu system. Checking out the routers manual I couldn't find any hints. Finally I hit the right protokoll, it's AppSocket/HP JetDirect section you have to use. You just have to enter the IP of the router and press next. After you finished the rest of the normal procedure (choosing the driver/name) it should work.



I hope that helps others finding themselves in the same situation!