I’ve bought yesterday a Creative Zen. As a player, it is really good, as you can see in many reviews.
Despites that, I’ve had a hard time, managing to get it to work in my laptop with Ubuntu. Finally, I’ve came up with a solution. The comunication with the device must be done via MTP, so I’ve had to use the latest libmtp to connect it. The package included in the repositories is too old, so you have to download and compile it yourself. Here’s how.
Despites my preference for GNOME, congratulations to the KDE team for their great work, developing KDE 4.0, which appears to be just great!
After more than three hour googling and trying, I’ve found the right way to get wireless to my brand new Toshiba L40. There was some weird workaround, with a modified driver, but it wasn’t very clean, and I need WPA support. After all, it all got to this:
If this is not enough, it wasn’t for me, force the driver to load your device, here’s how I did it:
tiagoboldt@Kyu:~/RTL8187B$ lsusb
The following was somewhere in the output: Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. That 0bda:8197 is the device ID, so, I’ve forced the application to control it by doing: sudo ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b
I’m now happy and using it without any issues, behind a personal wpa2 secured wireless network!
Today, the Porto Linux team joined in a nice Christmas dinner. The event started in the beginning of the afternoon, with some Apache talks. I’ve only joined them later in the evening. The conversation was, indeed, interesting, passing through lots of different subjects, from open-source, education and many, many other!
It was a nice dinner, and it is always good to get to know better the ones behind the emails or posts out there.
Before leaving, we’ve had an open-gift exchange. Everyone was supposed to bring something, like some code, a picture, an image, anything. Since I’ve forgot to print it, I’ll share here the little ncurses based application I’ve wrote to share. Download, compile it with g++ -lncurses xmas2007.cpp and run it with ./a.out. Merry Xmas.
A few months ago, the Skype team released a beta version for Linux with video capacities! This was the most lacking feature for us, Skype and Linux users.
If, like me, you’ve been waiting for this, go on, download the proper package for your distribution and have some fun 
The hype is here. Two of the most used OSs from our days are going to have a new release this week month. Prepare your Digg feed for a lot of Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X experience, schedule for release October 18th and 19th 26th respectively!
Both are incredibly improved and I guess that there will be really a lot to talk about each one of them, when they begin to spread through all those computers out there.
I’ll keep with Ubuntu, obviously, mainly due to the 200$ kept in my pocket! But I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there dying to put their hand into this most recent OS X v10.5.
Is Open-Source achieving the quality standards needed to be selected by Desktop users over other well paid OSs?
You can learn more about each one of them by clicking in each picture.
Which are you waiting for?
(Sorry to all you MS Windows fans out there, Windows was not forgotten, it’s just not even at this level)