Ben's Ramblings

For a seeming eternity Ubuntu has for whatever reason failed to ship a version which upon install that can pair properly with Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard. Bug after bug has been filed on this to no avail. So to my lack of suprise, after installing the new 10.4 (Lucid Lynx), Bluetooth would not pair with the keyboard.

Luckly, the situation has seem to improved to the point where only two changes are needed to get it working:

• Install the blueman package

aptitude install blueman

• Add hid_apple to /etc/modules (must be first) to allow Bluetooth to survive a reboot.

Progress? Kinda…..

First post from the WP app on my Nexus One.

Enjoy a picture of me stuck waiting for a train. EDIT: seems image upload not working.

I finally got done configuring my laptop the way I want it, and impressively VMware Fusion lets me full screen VM’s per each of OSX 10.5 spaces. With 4gb and a dual core processor, my macbook is holding its own. Ubuntu 9.04 (xfce4), Windows XP, and Windows 7 (RC) for those unfamiliar.