In this howto, I will take you through a step-by-step guide, on how to set up your own calendar sharing/synchronizing service on a computer running either Debian or Ubuntu.

This is especially useful, if you are using more than just a single computer or mobile device in your everyday life, and want to have all your calendars in perfect sync.

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I just recently started using the new version of the Pidgin instant-messenger client, which recently changed it’s rather popular name from GAIM, due to some legal problems the GAIM team had been having with AOL.

I downloaded the latest source files (at the time of writing the latest version was 2.0.1) from pidgin.im and got it extracted, compiled and installed on my just recently setup Debian 4.0 desktop system.

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Here’s a way of altering, or completely disabling, a feature in Debian, causing the console-monitor to black out after 15 minutes with no user inputs.

This is an old feature meant to prevent an image from being frozen solid into CRT monitors, leaving it somewhat obsolete to people using TFT monitors.

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I just found this wonderful word of advice, on a subject that has been bugging me for quite some time now, regarding the system disc on my Debian server.

Write FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS. You will not face the fsck problem from the next reboot onwards. However, if the disk is corrupted very badly, your presence may be required. I had done some kernel tweaks also for that. I will write about in subsequent tips.