My Windows XP professional workstation. A dell Latitude, P4 1800, 512MB Ram, 30GB HDD, 1400x1040 display. I'm using [[http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp|Deltacopy]] to back it up frequently to my [[NSLU2]] Plan: - Maybe add an 'usb-id read and then run a program with some parameters'-tool. * Whoo, could WMI be my friend in this? ====== Ubuntu Linux ====== I've installed Ubuntu Linux on a spare harddrive in this box, works quite nice! Firefox, Thunderbird. Using InnoTek VirtualBox for hardware virtualization and Microsoft Windows XP. [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/39315|Annoying bug]] that caused the keyboard to respond 'weird' under load, fix for now is to killall gnome-power-manager. Installing Bluetooth, gnome-bluetooth? [[http://www.williambrownstreet.net/wordpress/?p=27|Bluetooth howto]] Installed Dutch tax support software, there is a native Linux version! Wifi just works(tm) WMV (and other nonstandard formats) playing through [[http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy|ubuntuguide]]. Installed ip forwarding to provide network for another machine using: [[http://www.howtoforge.com/nat_iptables|this howto]]. Had a [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/edgy/+source/xorg-server/+bug/61746|bug]] where Xorg crashed when closing the lid of my laptop. Solved by upgrading to 7.04. == Torrents == - Azureus is a memory hog but it works for my torrent needs... Need to find a replacement like uTorrent for Windows! - Ktorrent is doing it, it's Kde and not Gnome but even with that overhead it's small compared to Azureus. == Sync phone, contacts etc... == - Multisync shows promises! I like it already and it doesn't even work yet! ====== Windows Wireless ====== Using [[http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-010623.htm|Intel]] wireless drives, not the Dell ones.