Ubuntu

Evernote is a great tool. I absolutely love it. The only con, is that it’s nto available natively for Linux. So I have to run it under the Windows Emulator or wine. The installation is fairly simple.

1. wget http://evernote.s3.amazonaws.com/win4/public/Evernote_4.5.0.5229.exe
2. wine Evernote_4.5.0.5229.exe

Obviously not running natively there is a slight performance lag. This may be attributed to my 5 year old laptop. Although it’s still usable, the slow synchronization soon becomes tiresome. Fortunately there is a Linux native client called NeverNote[2].

It’s pretty easy to set-up Cisco serial console connectivity on Ubuntu 10.04. The usual way is to use minicom. The serial ports usually called COM1-4 usually have the following address range;

1. COM1 - 3E8
2. COM2 - 2F8
3. COM3 - 3E8
4. COM4 - 2E8

To complete the setup first determine the address used for COM1 (or whichever serial port you wish to use) on your machine  query the kernel buffer ring using the dmesg command, then install and configure the minicom, modem emulation tool.

KeePass is a very popular password management software. One of my client uses this for their systems and I was given a copy of their database. Since I mostly use linux when I am working, I needed a way to get this working on Ubuntu 10.04. Instructions are widely available, but again for my benefit, I have documented them here as step-by-step guide for myself. At the time of this blog post the 2.x version of KeePass was 2.16