http://elijah.pinoguin.com/blog/blog-view/article/sync-treo-650-on-ubuntu-linux.html

This link should get you there, but I'll find time to have a graphical walk through the Centro and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Don't forget to restart the bluetooth service. Also click on the bluetooth icon in the notifier and don't forget to enable network services.

Not as fast as USB sync, but definitely less troublesome without the wires.

This was quick relatively quick to set up, by following the guide here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup

The only catch was that I couldn't browse my Sony Ericsson z558i. Just make your phone discoverable and then try browse it, you'll get the MAC address, which you will need.

You can pair with the phone, from the phone itself. Ubuntu will come up with a dialog box for the pass phrase. (as I recall).

Only one technical step, which is to find out the RFCOMM channel

sdptool browse  your-phone-mac-address

Look for Dial Up Networking, there should be a Channel. On my phone it's 2.

Edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf like this,

rfcomm0 {
        bind yes;
        device your-phone-mac-address;
        channel your-phone-rfcomm-channel;
        comment "Bluetooth PPP Connection";
}

Copy and edit the chatscripts given from the link to the guide.

For Digi users, this is the chat script:

TIMEOUT 35
ECHO    ON
ABORT   '\nBUSY\r'
ABORT   '\nERROR\r'
ABORT   '\nNO ANSWER\r'
ABORT   '\nNO CARRIER\r'
ABORT   '\nNO DIALTONE\r'
ABORT   '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'
''      \rAT
OK      'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","diginet"'
OK      ATD*99***1#
CONNECT ""

From the command line, type:

pon BluetoothDialup

and you're on the way.

To disconnect:

poff BluetoothDialup

Playing DVDs was not an issue, but I found problems doing DVD backups, dvdrip basically hung and tzcat went crazy. Looking for command line, I found dvdbackup. Still no go, finally I found out that you needed libdvdcss form this blog post.

Funny that this is not in repositories, but you need to run a script to install it. FreeBSD has this in ports by the way.

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

And it'll fetch and install a deb package.

Usually when we mention TPM, it's Technology Park Malaysia, but in this case it refers to "Technology Prevention Measures". Of course these have been proven time and time again to be broken. So what do they do? Evil big media (through US government) have already pushed for these laws to be implemented in Malaysia.

This is something I keep spreading awareness of.

By downloading that library and making a copy of a "legally bought" DVD, you can report me to the police and under Malaysian law I could be sentenced to jail for 5 years, fined RM100,000 or both (as I recall). If Malaysia signs an FTA with the US, they want similar laws to be more inclusive with stiffer punishments. They (US government and their local proxies) actually compared drug penalties (death) with copyright penalties, and say it's too light.

By making a backup of a legally bought DVD for my daughter, so that she can continue seeing her favourite shows even if she scratches the original DVD, her dad can be sent to jail for 5 years! Am I that harmful to Malaysian society to be locked up for making a copy of Elmo's Favourite Songs?

Citizens define the laws, by electing law makers. Are our law makers representing the rights of citizens in this case or the interests of powerful foreign media corporations?

In the US most of the elected lawmakers are on the side of corporations. I wonder if local elected MPs are willing to look after the interests of Malaysians for IPR related issues whether they are from BN or the opposition.

I still need to boot into a FreeBSD partition on my laptop to do some FreeBSD specific things now and then, which you can't do in a virtual environment.

Setting up FreeBSD to dual boot with Ubuntu (or any other Linux with grub) is simple.

1. Install FreeBSD in a primary partition (slice) and leave some space free for your Ubuntu install during the fdisk part of the installation.
2. Install Linux in remaining space, and install grub boot loader (usually the default)
3. Boot into Ubuntu as it doesn't autodetect FreeBSD partition, and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (or grub.conf on some other distros) and add the following,

title           FreeBSD
root            (hd0,0,a)
kernel          /boot/loader