Linux

I bought the boxed version of Suse Linux 9.1. The update went quite smoothly. Although it reported about 1500 package conflicts, they were all just consequences of kopete 0.81 (my icq client) and vlc 0.71 (my video player). I resolved the conflicts by first unprotecting the non-Suse packages that I had installed and then risking system inconsistencies. However, after the update both kopete and vlc still functioned. On the other hand VMWare 4.0.5 broke but updating to 4.5.1 helped.

In order to copy the file index.html from the local machine to vesuri.helsinki.fi the following command is needed:

scp -p /Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html jeltsch@vesuri.helsinki.fi:./public_html/index.html

The p flag preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. The full path of the original file (/Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html) is of course not needed if the file is in the current directory.

Two things have to be accomplished: 1. The menu should contain appropriate entries. 2. The files should be clickable and have appropriate "Open with" entries. 1. is easy to do. The (systemwide) entries for the menu are in /opt/kde3/share/applnk. I just added an addiitonal directory structure under this directory: Science `-- Staden |-- Gap4.desktop |-- Pregap4.desktop |-- Spin.desktop |-- Stadenlaunch.desktop `-- Trev.desktop If you edit the menu as a regular user, the entries are only valid for yourself.