I have a Notebook sitting in the living room. Its mostly for reading Mails/Blogs, checking the Weather. Occasionally I hook it up to the TV to watch Movies. Here's where the trouble starts: To do that I connect the Notebook to a Physical Network for Bandwidth reasons. The ...

Nice post on Bash History goodies:

http://blog.macromates.com/2008/working-with-history-in-bash/

Recovering deleted files from Hard Drives is not as hard as one might
think. Simplified its mostly only a removal of the Index entry pointing
to the space occupied by the data.

If you want to make sure that the Data is destroyed you have to make
sure that is ...

In openSUSE \> 10.3 you get a colored root (red) promt. To achieve this in SLE/SLED 10 simply drop the following in /etc/bash.bashrc.local (create it if it doesn't exist) : if test "$UID" -eq 0 -a -t && type -p tput > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then _bred="$(tput bold 2> /dev/null; tput setaf ...

I wrote this one for Novell's Cool Solutions:
[http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6781/configure-netconfig-modem-use
][]
In SLE11 we have a new (better) way to set up automatic network
configuration.

Its called netconfig (man 8 netconfig). Its a "modular tool to modify
network configuration".

Well in my SLED11 RC1 ...

I wrote this for Novell's Cool
Solutions:http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6782/configure-netconfig-static-domain-search-lists

In SLE11 we have a new (better) way to set up automatic network
configuration.

Its called netconfig (man 8 netconfig). Its a "modular tool to modify
network configuration".

Well in my SLED11 RC1 Box ...

This will will create vmdks for dd images from hard drives: You need access (linux) to the machine you created the dd from as you need to run: sfdisk -luS /dev/sdx to obtain the necessary information. The images created by this process are non-growable preallocated and thus take a ...

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/09/05/68-linux-related-free-e-books/

I wrote this one for [Novell Cool Solutions][]: **Problem:** USB HDDS are not automounted when no GNOME or KDE session is active in SLES/SLED **Solution:** Seen working in: SUSE 10.1, SLES 10, SLED 10 OpenSuse 10.3 (see Update at end of Article) This article describes how to ...

When trying out a SLED 10 Sp2 Configuration which authenticates against
a Windows 2003 R2 ADS I ran into a timeout which A: was very annoying
and B: did prevent me from logging in (winbind timed out).

It seems the cause for it was twofold:
Since I am a good ...