Google Documents

I have several laptop and desktop computers. Depending on where I am and how well prepared I am I could be working on any of the three laptops I own, or on my father's desktop, my brother's laptop, etc. Having these varied machines to work with has necessitated a review of how I author documents.

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Repair Your Broken Ipod

My desire for openness with my data has led me to the Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player. The Gigabeat F series was shipped running a version of Linux. This version of the Gigabeat, however, still attempts to control media somewhat by requiring the use of the Toshiba software for transferring of songs.

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Gigabeat S and Ubuntu

The new version of Ubuntu, 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, was released two days ago. I have been waiting a while for this release of Ubuntu to check out the automatically configured eye-candy. While I was a bit disappointed with the "automatic" portion of the eye candy something production has occurred as a result of this fresh install of Ubuntu.

As I have mentioned in previous articles, I have purchased a couple Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 players. The original Gigabeat I purchased was the F40, my preferred device to this day as it runs Rockbox.

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Toshiba Gigabeat S Series

I recently purchased a broken Gigabeat S60 from Ebay. It was noted on the seller's page that the Gigabeat would boot, but with an error message. I didn't know what I was actually going to receive but had hopes that once the great folks at Rockbox ported their software to the S series Gigabeat I would be able to get the MP3 player working.

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Rockbox on the Toshiba Gigabeat

I am a huge fan of the Toshiba Gigabeat. I first discovered the Gigabeat while searching on Ebay for an MP3 player. I was attracted to the Toshiba Gigabeat because it already ran Linux. I showed the Gigabeat for sale on Ebay to my brother. He immediately bought an F40. After his arrived and I tinkered with it a bit I purchase a unit myself.

I had heard the rumors concerning Rockbox on the Gigabeat but made the assumption that it would take an investment in time to put Rockbox on my Gigabeat and so hesitated to do so because of lack of time. I was not happy with the MTP transfer protocol but again I did not have the time I imagined it would take to put Rockbox on the device.

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Linux Tip: Managing Swap Partitions

We are not entirely certain why the swap partition was not added to the /etc/fstab, however, we noticed when running top that our swap space was showing up as 0k available, 0k used. This was a recent problem found on one of the web servers hosting http://forums.techguy.org. The web server had a fresh install of Fedora Core 4 but didn't appear to have any swap space. Following are the steps taken to correct the problem.

First we needed to determine if the swap partition existed. To do this we issued the following command as root:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes

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Toshiba Gigabeat and Ubuntu

I recently purchased a Toshiba Gigabeat. The Gigabeat is allegedly the hardware behind the newly released Microsoft Zune player. The capacity of my player is 40GB which gives me plenty of room to play with. The one complaint I have about the Gigabeat is the technology used to transfer for the tracks to the player: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) developed by Microsoft.

The player works great with Windows Media Player 10 and Toshiba's own Gigabeat room software. This leaves nothing for the Linux desktop however. There have been projects to allow other players to synchronize in Linux and I have found that with a good bit of tweaking the Gigabeat can also work with Gnomad 2.

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Partition Tables using GParted's Live CD

Many people have come to me and asked for a decent utility to edit partition tables. This is often not a question directly relating to Linux, but more pointedly targeted at Windows. Sometimes, however, this question is a precursor to installing Linux in a dual boot operation.

Before live distribution and more accurately GParted, users would need a utility, at cost, such as Partition Magic. Most home users do not want to fork over the cash for a utility they will use once, maybe twice. Enter GParted.

GParted is the Gnome Partition Manager. The GParted utility is designed specifically edit a computer's partition manager. GParted supports multiple file systems including, fat16, fa32, ntfs, ext3 and other Linux file systems.

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New Logo!

w00t! Thanks to Kim Michael for the fantastic new logo. She's awesome. Big cheers for Kim: w00t w00t w00t!

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Streaming Media Support in Ubuntu

Ubuntu has quickly become my desktop operating system of choice. I like the design, the ease of updates, and the community support behind it.

One area many Linux distributions generally fail to address is multimedia. This is not a criticism of any distribution. I understand the licensing restrictions and choices the various distributions have made. I also respect their decisions to include only open source software. Where Ubuntu differs a bit is in the idea of the Universe repository, although I have seen Fedora as well as SuSE do similar things. In the Universe repository you can find a plethora of additional software for your Ubuntu installation.

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