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Yesterday night I tried to connect the iPod to Linux. I tried some programs but none was working decently; but the good news is that you don't really need any special program "made for iPod" to do this.
For the guys who do not know about iTunes and iPod/iPhone foolishnesses, the problem is that when [...]

Previously I wrote that suspend/resume was not working in Karmic on my MacBook Pro 5.1, and I posted a solution. Now I found a better solution from the Apple Users forum on Ubuntu. The advantage is that with this fix, the suspend/resume is much faster.
First you need to revert the change I suggested previously.
Then... (copied [...]

I updated today from Jaunty to Karmic and, as effect, I had Suspend/Resume/Hibernate broken. But reboot and shutdown works; before with Jaunty the reboot was frequently crashing.
To fix the Suspend/Resume, I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the kernel option acpi=noirq
Example:

title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
uuid 5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd ro quiet splash acpi=noirq
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet

Other problem I found during the distro upgrade:

sound is [...]

I bought my Mac with the "International Keyboard". Which layout should you use on Linux?
The keyboard layout looks like this one:

As far as I know the "USA Macintosh" is the one that fits better, but still you have the §± and `~ keys inverted. To fix this I've added to Gnome Session Startup this [...]

The reverse horizontal scrolling problem is due to some old compatibility quirk on Apple's mouse that was using reversed scroll, and the problematic code is still there in newer kernels. See the bug: 291408.
If your mighty mouse scroll ball is horizontally reversed, it can be solved in this way:

- open file /var/lib/bluetooth/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx/did
- change yy:yy:yy:yy::yy:yy 0002 [...]

Since the 24th of August a new beta of Skype is available.
Some little look and feel changes, contact groups support, nothing really new, except for the native 64bit support. And I hope it will be more stable.
Download it from here: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/
I updated it because the old 32bit version recently is very unstable on my system. [...]

Talking on Skype with two friends (we'll call them "I" and "B"):
Luigi: try this:
$ gnome-screenshot --interactive
B: If I had linux
I: nice, but the PrtSc key works as well
…in combination with Alt it captures only the active window
Luigi: the same for Windows, but you do not have PrtSc on a MacBook...
… you just press apple-alt-ctrl-shift-fn-5
… [...]

Google Chrome is a fast and secure browser, enhanced for web 2.0 applications, available on Windows systems since long time now. Recently it has been published a Linux and OSX port, using Crossover, and it's freely downloadable. It has been called Crossover Chromium, see the FAQs. It's not a "production" browser, but just a [...]

Very shortly:

$ cd # go in your home folder
$ vim .vimrc # edit your preferences for vim

...add following line at the end of the file and save:

syntax on

...if still it doesn't work add also this line:

set term=ansi

Now vim should [...]

It seems that man pages on OSX are misaligned with the commands sometime.
Example:
From
$ man ps
I read:

-e Identical to -A.

But look how identical they are:

luigi@noname:~$ ps -e
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
12332 s000 S+ [...]