[Update for Thunderbird 8 in OpenSUSE 12.1/KDE below] Thunderbird uses gconf even when running in KDE. For some reason when you tell Chrome to be your default Browser it misses out configuring gconf. Fire up a shell and type: gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command You will ...

Category: Software
Slug: trying-to-return-unneeded-and-unwantet

I just bought a Dell Inspiron Duo for my wife. Naturally I installed Linux to it:  Now I try to return the License for Windows 7 Home Premium that came with the device. **First try ** Call Dell Support ( I am in Germany +49 69 9792 7200 ...

My Wife is a teacher and wanted "one of these small PC thingies" to
carry around all day.

So I bought her a Dell Inspiron Duo, because she also wants "one of
those touch pad thingies" ;-)

Since all of our household PCs run OpenSuse the Netbook had to have it ...

Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 ( SLES 9 ) was released on August 4th
2004.

And after 7 Years of General Support and two new Major Releases (SLES
10&11) is going "End of Life" on August 31st 2011.
See: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-06/msg00014.html

This means you now ...

Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 ( SLES 10 SP4 ) was released on
April 12th 2011.

See: http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/
http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html

This means that you have to upgrade your SLES 10 SP3 installations to
SP4 within 6 Months of the release ...

I just installed a NAS at home.
It's going to be my primary Data Silo so naturally I need to store my
(backup-/published-) git repos there.

The Synology thing I bought comes with Linux/Busybox. Hacking around is
surprisingly easy, they actually encourage you to do it.

Of ...

Sometimes things are simple. I was having troubles to install Oracle XE on a SLES 11 Box. The Lister would start. But not the Web Interface (http://localhost:8080/apex) Since my Oracle knowledge is limited I was stuck. Only [this][] Post gave me a hint where to look oracle ...

I have a Notebook sitting in the living room. Its mostly for reading Mails/Blogs, checking the Weather. Occasionally I hook it up to the TV to watch Movies. Here's where the trouble starts: To do that I connect the Notebook to a Physical Network for Bandwidth reasons. The ...

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less boring with the occasional picture.

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