A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux [...]

Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx
… be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then run as root:
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
aptitude install firmware-addon-dell
aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a)
update_firmware
Thanks Dell!

Works great! Following the instructions here:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html
However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b & amarok, will uninstalled and aren’t available for KDE4 on Debian yet.
See the screenshot that highlights transparency:

However, this does seems buggier than on my laptop running Ubuntu. For instance, whenever I type in [...]

Confused about power supplies for motherboards? Me too. This will help:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/30/power-supplies-become-increasingly-expensive
ATX = 20 pin plug, your Pentium III’s ATX connector and PS
ATX12V = 20 pin atx connector + 4-pin plug for “Additional 12V”
SSI = Intel spec, which, among other things, defines the “EPS” “enhanced” ATX specification
EPS12V= Power supply with 24-pin EPS12V connector, plus one 8-pin [...]

That’s better!

And on Feb 9th:

Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.

This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:

Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone!
http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme
Grab the  Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.

Debian replaced Firefox with Iceweasel which is a version of Firefox committed to all the Open Source freedom goodness stuff. However, some sites check the browser identification string and will refuse to let you view any of the pages because they don’t realise that Iceweasel is a version of Firefox (it’s based on the same [...]

Nice deal on a Nvidia 8800GT for $235:
http://dealnews.com
Dell Home offers the XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCI Express Video Card, model no. PVT88PYDF4, for $234.68. (Search for “A1350995″ to find it.)
I’m tempted! But, I think I’ll wait as the 8800GT isn’t supported under Linux yet.
Update: Looks like the driver was released on Nov 16th 2007:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.04.html

Make your Linux Gnome Desktop look like a Mac:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin
Instructions here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_linux_look_like_a_mac
This is what my desktop like before:

And I got this far and gave up:

I’m all praise to the folk who put all the work into this. But, having a Apple logos on my Gnome desktop just seems odd. If you want to get a desktop that [...]