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> - urlfilter with opera ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273931&cid=202 90857 ) is quite good, and a good find

Well, I tried it in Freespire linux (copied to $HOME/.opera/urlfilter.ini), also installed hosts file from http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273931&cid=202 94125
and still I see ads on some pages. Urlfilter has over 1000 lines, and Ad Muncher has over 4000.
So, current rank:
1. Opera urlfilter - some ads gone
2. Firefox AdBlock - many ads gone
3. Ad Muncher - most, if not all ads gone

I don't know how good is Opera urlfilter capabilities vs AdBlock Plus, can they be joined together.
What is the best blocklist for AdBlock Plus? Url?

About Linux:
I really like Freespire Linux, because watching videos with LBrowser (modified Firefox): Windows Media (watching news), Quicktime (trailers etc), Flash and Java works.
Got my Jabra BT620s bluetooth headset working in bluez-sco, skype and xmms, but not in LBrowser yet. When listening podcast I hear hiss with every s spoken, but maybe by compiling newer version of it I can get it fixed. Hmm, just found GUI tool for bluez-sco, on the bottom of page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2705335
and got xmms working from page
http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices
that says xmms menu: options->preferences->Output Plugin->Configure: "bluetooth"
VMware player takes too much processing power so laptop gets too noisy, so I'll try to get wine or crossover working. CrossOver Linux trial was strangely very slow with Freespire, so haven't got some windows apps installed.

Check out http://www.bluez.org/. I use an apple bluetooth keyboard with my debian system without any kernel patches and it runs overall pretty well (although there are a few glitches). By the time the PS3 comes out I have confidence that it will be completely smooth.

linux has supported bluetooth quite well for quite some time now, so asking such a question just shows that you haven't been following. and had you ever cared a simple googling would have told you so.

http://www.bluez.org/ .

I can't attest much to the PCMCIA cards because I have never used one, but I currently have the unlimited data add-on to my voice plan through T-Mobile and a bluetooth mobile (Sony Ericsson T610). Get a bluetooth adapter for the notebook and configure pretty much like a dialup device (with a little extra stuff for the bluetooth). The bluetooth stack I'm using is bluez, and there are docs available there for connecting a laptop through a cell phone connection. I think that's pretty much the standard bluetooth stack in the kernel at this point.

The best thing about this scheme is that I got a bluetooth adapter for my PDA, and it can use the connection through the cell phone to get Internet connected too (not at the same time, obviously, but you get the idea).

The data transfer rate is about dialup speed, about 4KB/sec. Latency is awful, about 800-1000ms, but that was my impression for all wireless cellular data services. As far as reliability and coverage, the only place I've ever had huge problems was in rural areas, but that's usually just because there's no coverage there from most carriers. But for around $20/month, the idea of being connected to the Internet just about anywhere tickles the geek inside of me to pieces.

As the author of the bluesnarf report and an important member of the team that did the experiment, I can tell you that Slackware Linux 9.0 distribution was used as a basis. In addition to this, Bluez and a recent linux kernel (linux-2.6.2) has been installed on this system. I like Knoppix very much, though. It gives Microsoft users a fair chance to seriously think about getting rid of their expensive bugware. Linux forever ;)