Archive for August, 2008
[How-To] Enable Auto-Mounting of External Drives In openSUSE 11
Due to weird-ass PolicyKit rules, you may not be able to mount external drives - such as USB Hard drives, Pen drives, or other mass storage drives. while the drive gets recognised, on trying to mount you’ll end up with this error:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <– (action, result)
This is because of a PolicyKit rule, which prevents [...]
Disabling Auto-Refresh of Repositories in openSUSE 11
One of the heavily improved aspects of openSUSE 11 is the package manager and the way packages and repositories are handled. Although YaST [Yet Another Setup Tool, openSUSE's system admin/configuration tool] is no longer the slow poke that it used to be, its still no match in terms of speed to Debian’s apt-get/Synaptic.
One of the [...]
Some Really Cool And Must Have Amarok Scripts
Amarok is probably amongst the best audio player and jukebox software, bar none. This feature rich software is also very flexible and extensible. By making use of third party scripts (and writing your own, if you know, say Python or Ruby) you can enrich your experience your Amarok experience. Here’s a list of some must [...]
