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April 5, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

DCOPserver error during KDE login

Yesterday my laptop ran out of power and during the emergency shutdown stuff got apparently screwed up.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Yast hangs during printer installation (Suse Linux 9.1 and 9.2)

Using Suse Linux 9.1 and 9.2, I had for a long time problems with installing additional printers using Yast2.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

winmail.dat (TNEF) attachments and non-Windows operating systems

My sister has sent me again an attachment which was encoded in the winmail.dat attachment.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Windows XP and deleting files with invalid filenames (The system cannot find the path specified)

I was fighting for several days to delete a file in Windows XP that started with dot underscore (._).

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Where KAdressbook stores its data and settings (kabc)

Of course in ~/.kde/share/apps, but if you have one hundred kde apllications and the programmers didn't manage to come up with a descriptive name for the configuration directory, you are in trouble.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Wheel Mouse trouble with Suse Linux 9.2 (SaX2, xorg.conf, explorerps/2, ZAxisMapping)

I wanted to activate the wheen of my USB mouse, but everytime I went to Yast2 Hardware Mouse the X server crashed and threw me into a text console.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Webalizer on our server

The log files of virtual hosts are located in /var/log/httpd/vhost_name/ and named vhost_name-access_log etc.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Vmware and ’error while loading shared libraries’: Suse’s new gdk-pixbuf rpm is broken

Still yesterday I have been running VMware on Suse Linux 9.1 and today (after I performed an online update of my system) I get: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: Suse has broken this package…

April 4, 2007 • 3 min read • Technology

Updating Suse Linux 9.0 to 9.1

The .0 to .1 update suggests, that it's not a big deal.
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