Ubuntu is, out of the box, pretty good at handling mobile Internet connections via bluetooth from various mobile devices. It even supports the iPhone to some extent.

I’ve been using Ubuntu’s built in functions to access the Internet from my netbook via my iPhone for quite a while now, but I have never been completely satisfied with the reliability, when connecting/disconnecting to the iPhone.

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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 recently tried installing the latest version of Ubuntu on my Via EPIA 10000 M board, to use it as a Media Center. But I experienced some strange behavior.

After about 30 to 60 minutes of use, my system completely locked up.
All I could do to get the system back up, was perform a hard reboot.

This happened regardless of what I was doing. Even if the system was just sitting idle for a longer period of time.
I found that I could provoke the lockup to happen, if I played some high-resolution video.

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I recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu. 8.04 Hardy at the time of writing.

My computer had the previous “Gusty” release installed, so I merely tried to upgrade using the package manager. This resulted in a somewhat crippled configuration, where some parts of my system was not acting as it should. I had no longer any support for joining wireless networks, and my bluetooth connections were also acting strangely. It seemed like a problem with some of the chipset drivers, so I decided to do a clean install of Hardy.

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