Linux - Part 30

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How to run IE in openSUSE 10.3

posted on February 24, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Software with 2 Comments

You decided to switch desktops to Linux and now you can’t access your office IE only intranet. What do you do? Well, you could IEs4Linux on WINE. WINE is a opensource Windows API implementation for the Linux platform and IEs4Linux is the “installer” which will download, install and get IE to work with WINE. 1. [...]

How to disable the beep in Linux

posted on February 20, 2008 in hacks, HowTo, Linux with 11 Comments

If you are like me then you must hate the “BEEP!” that comes along with Linux. Turning it off in KDE or Gnome is easy but what if you are on the virtual console? Here’s how you get rid of the “BEEP!” temporarily or permanently. Temporary solution, ** make sure to be root or use [...]

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 | [...]

PlexyDesk coming to your desktop soon

posted on February 17, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

PlexyDesk is the latest project to come out of Sri Lanka. The project team consists of a group of Sri Lankan developers and the project is only a couple of weeks old. PlexyDesk is a Desktop but not a full desktop environment like KDE and Gnome. The goal for Plexydesk is to simplify and improve [...]

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 [...]

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