Something that GUI-guys like me miss in some command line essentials:
http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/

If you run the XEN Kernel of SLES 10 and try to change your lan settings
with Yast it will simply shoo you away:

A XEN network Bridge was detected.Due to renaming of network interfaces by the bridge script, network interfaces should not be configured or restarted.See /usr ...

When you run some OS in VMware (Server/Workstation) it will make use of
the Console/System Ring/Beep. Thats what all OS for PCs since the start
of the Universe have been doing. Some more (Netware) than others.

Unfortunately VMWare completely emulates PC Hardware here. Even more
Unfortunately it ...

When i tried out Wake on Lan (WoL) i wanted to know if the machine i wanted to start actually receives the WoL Packet. When you ssh into a machine and then try see tcp traffic with tcpdump you have a nice infinitive loop at hand. Your ssh connection generates ...

Scott Morris of suseblog.com found something i had completely
forgotten about:

Kernel based SysRq which allows you to kill processes, sync/remount
disks and even reboot your box when it becomes unresponsive.

Scott's Article
Wikipedia Entry

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vmware_server_howto

Aparently the any-any update is still needet for Ubuntu.
Didn't know that.

My Company gave me a Dell D820 Laptop Movable Desktop
(\~5Kg!!?). It came with XP which of course was wiped instantly. I am
running SLED 10 SP1 for a while but wanted to try all the 10.3 goodness
on it:

Dell D820

• CPU: Intel® Core ...

I use a Laptop as a Server (for Power consumtion reasons).

The system of course run in Runlevel 3. But without any X present the
LCD is never put to sleep by the xScreensaver.

To do this manually you can use the vbetools:

vbetools dpms off turns the screen off ...