Setting up ActiveSync with Android

ICTS has two documents that describe how to set up Android that so that you have access to your agenda and email. However, there is one huge disadvantage: you can also use this by allowing the server to "Erase All Data" without warning. This is not some weirdly named permission, it will really delete all data if for some reason it got upset with your phone. Check the horror stories. What was Microsoft thinking??

Reading literature from home with your UM account

Well, this is not strictly for GNU/Linux only, but useful anyway: you can read non-Open Access literature from outside the UM network, using your UM account using EZProxy. And it is as simple as typing a URL: you just append .ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl to the domain name. Thus, instead of typing http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7299/full/465685e.html you use http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl/nature/journal/v465/n7299/full/465685e.html. That's all.

Update: if you are using Firefox, check this plugin. If you are using the Chrome browser, you can also check out this extension:

Maastricht University should be known to the extension already (but the "manual" URL is given below too), and my configuration of the extension looks like: