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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 First, check if you really do have a ALPS touchpad. cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep ALPS sample output; N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" Make a backup of your xorg.conf file. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkp Edit the xorg.conf file. vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf Navigate to the InputDevice Section and look for the “synaptics” driver portion. Replace everything between the Identifier line and EndSection with the settings below. ...

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8495736483859648715[/googlevideo] 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 the desktop experience by by rendering your desktop workspace and optimally organizing your information thought it support for multi touch screens....

I was fortunate enough to get invited into Netizens, the latest advertising network to hit our shores. Other blogs who made the first batch were hongkiat.com, LiewCF.com, Lingzie’s Tummy Treat, Malaysian Politics, Chinese Music Blog, Friedbeef’s Tech, Rasa Malaysia, Get Found and My 1st Path . Netizens prides itself for being different from the other advertising networks currently available in Malaysia. It’s set out to put more dollars back into the publishers hands then then conventional CPM concepts that we have all come to know very well....

Mozilla has released it’s latest beta release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3 Beta 3. Some of the new features include improved security through better user tracking, malware detection, stricter SSL rules and also anti virus support for the built in download manager. The download manager also benefits from some changes, resume is now supported, a new search functionality and a new progress indicator in the status bar. Vista, Mac OS X and Linux will also see better integration from Firefox....

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. First start by downloading the latest version of Webmin. The current version is 1.400. I prefer to use use wget to directly download the file onto the server but it’s up to you. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm Install the Webmin rpm package. rpm -ivh webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm [root@proxy0 /]# rpm -ivh webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm warning: webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 11f63c51 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Operating system is CentOS Linux 1:webmin ########################################### [100%] Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://proxy0.klm1.netcel360.com:10000/ as root with your root password. Check if the Webmin service has been started. service webmin status [root@proxy0 /]# service webmin status webmin (pid 4878) is running That’s it, you can now login using your root id at https://localhost:10000 ...