I finally get my SMC 2835w to work in Fedora 2.

it's rather easy to setup since the driver is in 2.6. All I have to do is download the firmware and place it at /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (filename isl3890).

However, this card doesn't seem to be stable on Linux and I'm getting a lot of card reset.....

[Update] After more debugging, I found that reset my SMC barricade g router fixed the problem.... maybe it's a bug on the router, not the card?? But the connection never stay up for too long...

This is my first Sony Ericssen phone.

I just got the Linksys USBBT100 Bluetooth USB adaptor. The driver is working right out of the box in Fedora2, it goes alive once I plug in the device.

After that, I just have to configure the bluetooth and pand service in order to allow receiving of file from my SE z600.

The steps to get bluetooth to works on Fedora2 are:
- Setup hcid to ask for PIN, change security mode to user in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
- Configure pand in search mode (uncomment one of the lines) from /etc/sysconfig/pand
- Enable bluetooth and pand service
- Insert Bluetooth adaptor
- Start bluetooth and pand service

I have been using the z600 for almost 2 weeks now.

The phone is stylish. At the beginning, I thought it is big, but actually it has very good size and comfortable fit in my hand. The color screen is nice and bright (except under the sun). It's exicting to have polyphonic ringtone. Voice recording/command are kind of cool. I like the flip form-factor and the bluetooth function the most. It's cool to able to use the Jabra headset with this phone.

In addition, I can sync contacts/tasks/notes to my Linux box (with a USB bluetooth adaptor), and send pictures. This is all done via bluetooth.

MMS fulfills my dream to talk to someone 1/2 way around the world and send them a picture at the same time. see here.

The phonebook that allow multiple number per name is nice for grouping people's number, but I hate that the SIM card does has the same format, hence some information is lost when writing to SIM.

I have not try java yet, just not a game guy.....

However, no phone is perfect and so is my z600:
- The GUI lacks configuration flexible. ie grouping function in tab for easier access.
- The access to shortcut is not optimzed and there are not enough number of shortcut available.
- The shortcuts from the nav key is not customizible.
- The more button is not configurable.
- Slient mode should be controlled by the volumn buttons (like in my Kyocera 8135)
- There is no user definite user profile

I could have get z500 if it's out... It has EDGE, PTT, and a better camera (not that I need it). But I'm happy with z600

I have been using AmphetaDesk for quite sometimes now, but it never update and lack functions I really want. So, I start out to shop around what's out there.

There is a list of features I'm looking for that AmphetaDesk is lacking:
- New items tracking
- Categories
- Multi-users/authentication

Then I found Feed on Feeds, which is not the most good-looking and feature rich aggregator out there. But it has most of the fetaures I want, and there are potential to be a good contender for my ideal RSS aggregator.

What I think is missing currently from this cool software:
- A multi-user/authentication
- Categories to group feeds
- Improve content presentation layer that seperate contents and presentation, and a better default User Ineterface
- A better admin/config functions with many configurable functions

The good thing is many of these are planned, let's hope the next release is coming soon.

Just enabled mod_deflate to compress web contents. I hope this help speed-up page loading, since I have a slow uplink on the DSL connection