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Improve ALPS touchpad response speed

posted on February 18, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 8 Comments

ALPS touchpad generaly have slower response when compared to the synaptic based touchpads. Here’s a simple X hack to boost the sensitivity of my ALPS touchpad which has dramatically improved my experience with my touchpad. This worked on my openSUSE 10.3 1. First, check if you really do have a ALPS touchpad. cat /proc/bus/input/devices | [...]

How to install webmin on CentOS 4

posted on February 14, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 4 Comments

Webmin is a web based control panel for system administrators for Unix/Linux. I use Webmin for reports mainly. More about Webmin here. This is how you would install Webmin on Centos 4. 1. First start by downloading the latest version of Webmin. The current version is 1.400. I prefer to use use wget to directly [...]

My home made notebook cooler

posted on February 4, 2008 in Cool Stuff, HowTo, Me, Tech with 16 Comments

Been having a hard time finding a suitable notebook cooler for me. I’ve gone through almost all types of coolers available on the market today. Cheapest to the premium priced, single fan to 4 fans, usb powered to adapter powered but yet none did met my standards. I decided to go ahead and build my [...]

Creating Partitions with GNU Parted

posted on February 2, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Software, Tech with 0 Comments

Hi, its me Raja again. This time I talk about parted, an alternative to fdisk for linux. This is my second screencast, so the quality is not there yet. The youtube video somehow seems a little burry, so you may want to look at the higher quality .avi version. Anyhow, comments are much appreciated on [...]

Bug in openSUSE xorg security update

posted on January 22, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

I’ve been hit by bug #345131 since updating to the latest xorg-server [7.2-143.9] security update on my openSUSE 10.3 installation. xorg-server version 7.2-143.6 to 7.2-143.9. VLC, Filezilla and a few other applications stopped working. The bug has something to do with the X Window shared memory (MIT-SHM) overflowing. My error, The program ‘Filezilla’ received an [...]

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