As FOSDEM (woohoo \o/) draws closer and the likelihood of spending a lot of time in the airport doesn't change, I thought it was time to find out how to use my N900 as a modem or for "tethering" as I'm told the proper word is.

Some background:

• my laptop …

As anyone who's been within hearing range can tell you, I've acquired a new laptop recently that I've grown quite fond of. Here's my experience getting various Linux distributions working on it, your mileage may vary (e.g. my experience with Debian was widely different from others'). I ordered the …

If your hard drives are currently doing fine and you're ready to skip this article, please just do this for me: run *fdisk -l* as root, maybe *fdisk -u -l* as well and store the output in a file on a usb stick or another machine. Thanks. That's the kind …