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Toggling bluetooth (on a Lenovo ThinkPad X200s / Ubuntu 10.x) via rfkill: rfkill list rfkill block 0 rfkill unblock 0 …until https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/395358 is fixed…

Not brand-new but also not completely outdated: Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO

Thunderbird/Lightning has been working with Google Calendar for a while now [cf. link]. however, Tasks are not supported as can be seen in this thread and also here. now, is there another service for Tasks available?

until recently i was stuck with a stock android 1.6 - and USB tethering was somewhat adventurous (Tetherbot was an option, connectbot another… both worked best, i.e. without restrictions, when there was a VPN tunneled ‘over’ either of them.

two quick possibilities to update security updates only (via apt-get and/or aptitude in debian, ubuntu, …): uses a dedicated sources file: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/241#comment_20 uses a search pattern: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9161314&postcount=3

BIOS updates for Dell computers under linux: The Dell Linux Wiki Page Extracting the BIOS image from the Windows .EXE file Dell’s info on RAID & Storage (aka. PERC thingthings…)

wanted to use an android emulator to grab a screenshots of google goggles but had to realize - as many before - that the Android SDK comes without ‘the Market.’ a possible solution is described here: Android Tips for Developers: Android Market on Emulator; at least, for the 1.

from the tail man page: -n, –lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last 10; or use +N to output lines starting with the Nth …note the +N option!

…nice!

here a crude helper to restore a ‘Time Machine.app’ backup on a linux system (well, a non-OSX system…) starting from How to access Time Machine files from Linux the steps are somewhat automated.