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Interesting, I might order one: http://open-pc.com/

Or, the art of auto-generated images by moving a mouse around. People are doing it on flickr too. Sounds silly, and it is exactly that.

Notebook is an OS independent desktop wiki. No point and click technology, but with a syntax to learn.

For linux, there is a starkit version. So you need tclkit.
Howto install tclkit:

./tclkit <path where notebook2.1.3 is located>/notebook2.1.3.kit

Or put it in a script:

#!/bin/sh
./tclkit <path where notebook2.1.3 is located>notebook2.1.3.kit

I am using notebook in combination with Dropbox and DropboxPortable for portable mobility. One disadvantage: I need to carry an USB flashdrive with me, which is easy too loose.

Strictly, it is not necessary to use it in combination with an USB device, but it avoids the installation of Dropbox on my workmachine. Also, in case there isn't an internet connection availbable, i still can use Notebook.

Homepage developer: wjduquette.com
Download notebook2.1.3: http://notebook.wjduquette.com

To get a Creative Zen X-Fi working on Ubuntu 9.04 isn't exactly plug-and-play, but with some searching it wasn't that hard either.

I followed the suggestions made in this forum thread.I first installed gnomad2 from the standard repositories, which also installed libmtp8 and mtp-tools. Gnomad2 worked fine, but unfortunately the Zen wasn't recognized by Rhythmbox and/or Banshee.

I noticed the version of the standard libmtp in the repositories is 0.3.0, and not the 0.3.6 as suggested on page 2 of the same forum thread, so i added the PPA to the sources list, included the PGP signature, did and apt-get update and installed the latest version for jaunty, (0.3.7). As a final touch, the MTP plug-in in Rhythmbox was enabled.

After a reboot, plugged in the Zen, started Rhythmbox, the device got recognized and the syncing sequence was initiated.

Howto get rid of the loud and obnoxious system beep you hear when you restart or shutdown the machine

sudo rmmod pcspkr
echo 'blacklist pcspkr' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7161976

The TweetDeck "blank window" issue is known on KDE and 64-bit Ubuntu, but not so much on 32-bit Ubuntu. After searching for a long time, I fixed it by removing everything inside the ~/.appdata dir.

rm -r Adobe
rm cookie_file.txt
rm -r TweetDeckFast.F9107117265DB7542C1A806C8DB837742CE14C21.1