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My todays post covers my efforts to synchronize my samsung star mobile phone on ubuntu.

First of all I tried BitPim, an open source tool to sync mobile phones. Unfortunatelly, with the current version of bitpim, it didn’t work.

So I installed a VirtualBox using Windows Vista. Samsungs PC Studio seems not to work on a virtual installation of Vista? At least when I tried to install it it crashed my whole installation ;-(

So far, it does not work for me (ok, dualbooting to windows DOES work)

Edit 1 [01/12/10]: What works is sending files via Bluetooth. The mobile recognizes the files based on their ending. So you can send your contact data using *.vcf files. Each contact in one file is in my part of view just boring

Have you ever wondered, what is happening when your media keys keep flashing?

This means your kernel has some sort of panic

This happend to me with some sort of strange combination of wlan-access-point and ubuntu-kernel. Whenever i got a new dhcp-lease from this one access-point, my kernel paniced and the last log message was that i got a new IP.

See google for more information on kernel panic reasons!

Today i got to take snapshots with the integrated camera of my Dell Vostro 1510!

After some tries using mplayer, gqcam, camstreamer and others, I thought it would never work. But some adjustment of the parameters passed to mplayer it finally worked to get out movies:

mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -ofps 60 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o test.avi

To record single images use these commands:

mplayer -vo jpeg -fps30 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -frames 1

The file 00000001.jpg now contains your screenshot!