Mission: Get Bluetooth Stereo Headset Working in Linux. Current Status: EPIC FAIL
I’ve owned a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 for nearly 2 years now, and I use it pretty often with my previous phone ( the Sony Ericsson P1i ), and my current iPhone 3G. I also use it occasionally on my laptop. It has worked fine in Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7. Getting it to [...]
Changing the GNOME Menu panel in openSUSE GNOME back to Gnome defaults
Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar with Applications/Places/System entries. Personally I prefer the new style, perhaps because I’m used to the openSUSE Kickoff panel, and I really dig the search feature
Updating to openSUSE 11.2
As mentioned openSUSE 11.2 is now available. If you’re on previous versions of openSUSE you can do an inplace upgrade to 11.2 by using zypper.
openSUSE 11.0/openSUSE 11.1
Just change the repos to mention 11.2 instead of 11.0/11.1, as shown in the pic:
Links of the week
Saw this question on SuperUser :
How can I add menu items to the Gnome “Applications” menu from the command line?
Yet another SuperUser Q
RSS Feed Notifier for Linux
Seems Canonical will set limits to those who can order free CD’s via Shipit.
The discs will still be made available to Local Community team members and Ubuntu contributors. [...]
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 And Release Candidates(RC) add boot from USB flash disk option, here’s how to use it
Howdy folks! Been a *loong* time since I last posted isn’t it? Just been busy with work & travel (won’t bore you with the details, just check my personal blog).
I’ve been looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 version ( it’s no secret that I’m a fan of openSUSE), but the main problem for me [...]
Links of the Week
Been a while since I’ve composed a post, work’s taken a toll on me and leave me with very little time
Rather having no updates at all, decided to post some links which I found interesting and made for good read. So here we go!
[How-To] Enabling Font Anti-Aliasing (aka ClearType) in KDE
While going through some of KDE settings I found this simple way to enable Anti Aliasing for Fonts (also known as ClearType in Windows). This will definitely make your fonts more pleasing to look at.
For this, just launch KDE settings – this is generally known as Configure Desktop in openSUSE or System Settings in Kubuntu.
openSUSE 11.1 up for downloads
The folks behind openSUSE have released the next version of the extremely popular (and my favorite) Linux distro – openSUSE.
openSUSE 11.1 comes with KDE 4.1.3, GNOME 2.24.1, and for those who (still) don’t want to shift to KDE 4, yes openSUSE 11.1 comes with KDE 3.5.10
You can download openSUSE via HTTP, FTP or via BitTorrent, [...]
Mono 2.0 Live CD is available for Download
The second version of Mono, the Open Source implemention of .NET was released earlier this week. Close on the heels of this release, the folks at openSUSE have spun-off a LiveCD consisting of Mono 2.0, MonoDevelop 1.0, Banshee 1.2.1, F-Spot 0.5.0.1, GNOME Do 0.6.0, Tomboy 0.12.0,Tasque 0.1.6, Various ASP.NET Applications, Mono Debugger, and more.
So if you want to dabble into Mono 2.0 without having the [...]
[How To] Display Windows exe icons in Gnome
Many people would like to use windows’ softwares in linux and would also like to run games in linux using wine. Many softwares and games work pretty well and are fully functional using wine. However, people may find it difficult to digest the fact that exe icons do not get displayed. If the exe icons [...]
