Google Gears now works on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation, at least almost. For Google Docs the little green symbol appeared after I had installed Google Gears for Linux. Then I headed to Google Reader, but there the symbol for offline support did not show up.
I do not know, what is going wrong, but my Google Reader just does not support Google Gears, somehow. I will keep on trying, but at least Google Docs work. That is one step ahead.
UPDATE: Seems like currently I am blogging too fast! I just added a new feed to Google Reader, and the little pop-up for activating Google Gears for this website appeared. It seems to work perfect.

In one of my posts I described how to configure the Icybox NAS 4220. One of the main problems was to find the Icybox in my network. The software Raidsonic offered on the cd was a windows-only software and despite the fact that I could use it with WINE, it still did not find the Icybox in the network. So I had to boot Windows Vista (which came with the notebook).

However, as I had to find the Icybox 4220 again today I did some research how to find it with Linux and someone on http://www.ubuntuusers.de gave me the answer 3 minutes after my question was posted (!!!).

You should install the programm “nmap” and then run the following code:
nmap -sP xxx.xxx.x.*
This will show you all devices (servers, nas, computers) in your network.

Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 my notebook’s battery life went considerably down. In my post Battery life of FSC Amilo si1520: Windows Vista vs. Ubuntu 7.04 I was mentioning a battery life of about 3:00 hours in normal conditions on my FSC Amilo si1520, with a dimmed screen and wifi off it was even possible to go up to 4:00 hours.

Now, after installing Ubuntu 7.10 the battery live in normal conditions is just below 2 hours (1:50h). Did anyone have the same problems? Any solutions?

Intel offered a little software to improve battery life on notebooks running Linux. The tricks are helping a little bit, but how can I make the changes permanent? Ideally you have experience with the Amilo si1520, but any tip will help, I guess.