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I didn't know how to format an unformatted drive under Linux.

How to change the name of items on the desktop (e.g.

Although a standard Windows XP Professional OS cannot read (= mount) Macintosh-formatted CDs (neither hfs nor hfs+), the burning program Nero Express can duplicate such CDs!

I couldn't figure out how to change the host name.

First I added a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/rc5.d/:cd /etc/init.d/rc5.d sudo ln -s ../autofs S21autofsThen I added to the /etc/auto.master the following line:/media/automounts /etc/auto.smbmountsThen I created the file auto.smbmounts with the following content:michael_msbl.helsinki.fi -fstype=smbfs,username=michael,password= ://paula/michael Then I created the mountpoint:sudo mkdir /media/automounts/michael_msbl.helsinki.fiThen I activated the autofs daemon:sudo /etc/init.d/autofs startNow whenever one tries to access the directory /media/automounts/michael_msbl.helsinki.fi, the autofs daemon will mount the smb share automatically and unmount after a certain period of inactivity.

I wanted to have a quick way to rotate the images I take with my digital camera.

libcdaudio libcdaudio-devel (for cdaudio.h) perl-audio-cd module disc-cover configuration: create all the configuration files, otherwise segmentation fault add servers to .cdserverrc (http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=9)

I have many files in strange formats that can be opened by applications that are not installed by default on any Linux distribution.