1. The origin of and solution to Google Calendar spam... for now, anyway.

   • blocking
   • calendar
   • entries
   • fix
   • gmail
   • google
   • howto
   • spam

   Early last month I wrote a short article about having recieved spam to my Gmail account that automatically added itself to my personal calendar. As I'd expected, I wasn't the only one who'd recieved one of these, and that it would be a matter of time before Someone Out There had the time to really look into it. As it turns out, anyone can send an invitation to a Gmail account and have it automatically added to an associated calendar because such invitations are automatically added by default (regardless of poor sentence structure). I would guess that this is so …

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2. Linux on the Dell Inspiron 1520

   • 1520
   • dell
   • documentation
   • gotchas
   • howto
   • inspiron
   • linux
   • notes
   • tips

   Linux distribution successfully used: Gentoo Linux 2007.0

   Currently running kernel: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources v2.6.24.1

   I'll put everything else behind the cut because it'll take up a few pages... Hardware assay

   • CPU: Intel Centrino Duo T7500 running at 2.20GHz x2
   • Memory: 2GB
   • Chipset: Intel ICH8M
   • Video: nVidia GeForce 8400M GS, 256MB video memory on-board. Using the closed-source nVidia drivers from Portage (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers) with full acceleration. Haven't tried VGA or TV-out yet.
   • SATA: Intel 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M) chipset, using in-kernel drivers (CONFIG_ATA_PIIX)
   • IDE: Intel 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M) chipset, using in-kernel drivers (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX)
   • Ethernet: Broadcom BCM4401-B0, using in-kernel …

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3. Working with software RAID in Linux.

   • construction
   • device mapper
   • disks
   • dm
   • howto
   • linux
   • management
   • mirror
   • overview
   • raid

   This post assumes that you've worked enough with Linux to know about the existence of software RAID in the Linux v2.6 kernel series, though not necessarily much about it.

   If you're not familiar with it, RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a set of techniques that replicate data across multiple hard drives on the assumption that, at some point, a drive is going to fail. If the data can be found in some form on another drive, the data is still available. Otherwise you're out of luck unless you made backups, and if you're really unfortunate, your machine …

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4. Backing up PalmOS devices using open-source software.

   • backup
   • cellphone
   • command
   • howto
   • palm pilot
   • palmos
   • pda
   • treo

   When using the Pilot Link toolset with an open source operating system to back up a PalmOS device such as the Palm Treo 700p, remember two things: One, when you connect the phone to your system using the USB cable, it will create two devices in the /dev directory, /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 (assuming that there is only one Treo plugged in at a time). You'll want to reference the second device file, /dev/ttyUSB1. Secondly, press the hotsync button on the cable or activate the hotsync function on the device before running the pilot-link utility. This is the …

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