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Temp fix for failing automount
My system does not auto-mount optical drives or usb drives, so I created a script to do it: --------------- #!/bin/bash # Fix for a flunking system auto-mount!!! # When it won't auto-mount CD/DVD/USB echo "Fix for a flunking system auto-mount!!!" if [[ $UID -ne 0 ]]; then echo "$0 Must be run as root" ... 16 May 2010 10:14

New External Drive
SWMBO (bless her) came home with a 1Tb Verbatim external USB drive as a prezzie tonight. Unfortunately its a USB 2.0 connection and my ancient old box only has 1.1 slots. No matter - it works albeit a tad slower than it should. It's pre-formatted FAT32 so that won't be staying long, which brings me to the... 21 May 2010 17:12

Parameters in bash
houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: top - 03:40:08 up 7 days, 6:01, 12 users, load average: 14.74, 14.87, 9.79 Tasks: 339 total, 8 running, 318 sleeping, 0 stopped, 13 zombie Cpu(s): 5.3%us, 20.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 30.0%id, 43.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st ... 12 May 2010 08:01

lxde
In Re:Parameters in bash, Houghi wrote: "Factory LXDE" {da740027-f334-4386-8a21-bd35f3da0870} How are you finding lxde? ... 31 May 2010 10:49

OpenOffice problem with Kde4
Whenever I save or open a file with OpenOffice, it brings up a file manager that looks like dolphin, and proceeds to take about 10 seconds to open the top level directory, and the same for each additional one. Even if I access two files in the same directory, it will take the 10 seconds to scan every time. It's... 24 May 2010 21:14

Find the running VirtualBox machines.
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:17 +0200, houghi wrote: To see what VirtualBox machines are running, I use the following: ps aux|grep "VirtualBox --comment"|grep -v "grep --color"| \ awk -F '--' '{print $2}'|awk -F 'comment ' '{print $NF}' I would imagine that that is possible using a VirtualBox commend, but I... 11 May 2010 13:22

some update broke codeblocks 'make install'
openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 On a stock 11.2 system, codeblocks will build and install fine (using latest svn, or older). But after some update is installed, root permissions get messed up. 'make install' causes all directories that the install process creates to get rwx------ permissions. This is wrong. Only root ... 16 May 2010 16:48

orphaned packages
When using the online update of YAST2, asking for groups of packages, there appears "orphaned packages". Should I removed those packages? Is there instructions about how to use YAST2 properlly? Regards, Filipe ... 9 May 2010 23:03

How do you get Java to work in the Chrome browser? Solved
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:44 -0500, WLS wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:13:07 +0200, houghi wrote: WLS wrote: What do I have to hide? Yoru privacy. houghi Then I can use the Incognito window. Chrome also has an AdBlock extension. Anyway my privacy is shot since I u... 7 May 2010 15:36

user passsword
One of my user passwords is refusing to work - when you enter it the screen just clears and is sat at the login again.. it doesn't report a password failure and just sits there at the login. I've tried changing the password in Yast and it has no effect. The root login & password still work fine. This versio... 10 May 2010 04:25