Thanks to an anonymous donor, a new server has been added to the North Palm Beach Community Network. This will replace the aging (and failing) laptop that was used to provide DNS and WWW services for our neighborhood network.

While not exactly new, this is a welcome addition to our community!

NPB Community Network Server

It’s been a bad week for computing in our household. On Wednesday, my Toshiba M4 died unexpectedly. Faced with the need to replace my “road warrior” and not wanting another 10+ lb. beast, I opted for  a shiny nee Asus EeePC 900A!

It’s currently running the stock Xandros Linux and will be replaced with Ubuntu Isn’t it cute??

New Asus EeePC!

I’ve had several people ask me how to set up Evolution 2.22.x to utilize the “GAL” on Microsoft Exchange 2003.

Answer: Simply insert the FQDN of your domain controller as the Global Catalog server name. See screenshots below.

Exchange OWA Settings:

Exchange Settings

Global Catalog Settings (GAL):

Exchange GAL Settings

Here’s my “mini how-to” on how to configure your Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC to work with Ubuntu Linux 8.04.1 LTS. If it hasn’t been specified here, and you need it to make this work, it’s included in the default 8.04.1 LTS installation.

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Install the following packages via apt:

wacom-tools
(xserver-xorg-input-wacom should have been installed by default)

Verify the following device is present:

/dev/input/wacom

example:

ls -l /dev/input/wacom

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 2008-12-27 21:26 wacom -> /dev/ttyS0

Place the following items in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section “InputDevice”
Driver          “wacom”
Identifier      “cursor”
Option          “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option          “Type” “cursor”
Option          “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″
Option          “Rotate” “CW”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver          “wacom”
Identifier      “stylus”
Option          “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option          “Type” “stylus
Option          “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″
Option          “Rotate” “CW”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver          “wacom”
Identifier      “eraser”
Option          “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option          “Type” “eraser”
Option          “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″
Option          “Rotate” “CW”
EndSection

You’ll notice the “Option Rotate CW” in each of the input devices. This is to allow proper orientation of the stylus when the screen is reversed and collapsed.

And add this to your ServerLayout directive in xorg.conf:

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier      “Default Layout”
screen “Default Screen”
Inputdevice     “Synaptics Touchpad”
Inputdevice     “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
Inputdevice     “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
Inputdevice     “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
EndSection

Add the “Option RandRRotation on” to your screen device. This will allow for screen rotation in the System – Prefs – Screen Resolution preference pane.

Section “Device”
Identifier      “Configured Video Device”
Driver          “nvidia”
Option          “NoLogo”        “True”
Option          “RandRRotation” “on”
EndSection

Reboot and you should be good to go. A great on-screen keyboard is xvkbd, available via apt.