I’ve been throwing around some websites from one server to another, and this command really comes in handy to copy an entire folder to a new distination under linux.
cp -R origindir/ destinationdir/
This copies the entire ‘origindir’ to ‘destinationdir’. Simple, but effective.
Wanneer je de installatie van Skype doet via het pakket dat op de Linux pagina van Skype wordt aangeboden, weigert Skype na installatie te starten. Als je kijkt naar de command line, krijg je volgende foutmelding:
Dat blijkt een probleem te zijn met een slecht pakket van Skype. Alberto Passalacqua heeft in zijn blog de correcte installatieprocedure van Skype 2.1 op OpenSuSE 11.2 64-bit geplaatst.
Ik heb het op onze oudere laptop geplaatst, en dat werkt wonderwel. Dank je, Alberto!
I read this on the blog of marcan:
The workaround in firefox is to go to “about:config”, just type it into the address bar and hit enter. Then change the value network.dns.disableIPv6 to TRUE.
The issue was still there in Ubuntu 10.04 according to Steve. As I’m planning to install a test instance of Ubuntu 10.10 in the near future, I’ll keep this one in mind.
Vandaag laat het OpenSuSE project zijn nieuwste telg officieel los op de wereld. OpenSuSE 11.3 is eindelijk beschikbaar.
Nadat mijn laatste installatie, toen nog van 11.2, meer dan een maand na de release nog altijd tegen een knoert van een fout aanliep (Oudere AMD grafische kaarten hadden kuren bij de originele 11.2 release installatie – zie hier en hier), zal ik eerst wat de kat uit de boom kijken en deze keer niet voor beta-tester spelen.
Het ziet er allemaal heel leuk uit, en je ziet duidelijk dat de linux wereld aan het opgroeien is. De distributies beginnen meer en meer deals af te sluiten met bedrijfjes om bepaalde services mee aan te bieden.
A few days ago, there was a newly released version of the OpenSuSE kernel available in my update list. After download and installation, my bcm4306 wifi adapter was finding multiple broadcasted signals with associated networks. Sadly, it seems that encryption support isn’t yet working in this configuration, as I can’t seem to connect with my secured network at home.
I’ve been trying for several days on and off now, to get the previously working Wifi under OpenSuSE to work, now that I installed the new-and-shiny 11.0. I’ve had some success in the past days, but none of those efforts were reproducable i.e. I couldn’t repeat the actions it seems were needed to get a connection.
On the OpenSuSE forums, it seems there is a bug in the firmware of the Broadcom Wifi Chipset 4306, which fortunately can be fixed. I’ll keep you updated on that. If this should work, that means one of the most difficult things remaining during an installation of a new linux finally will be fixed with native software (bc43 driver instead of a hand-configured ndiswrapper). I’m looking forward to the next installation 
Today, I tried for the second time to use my electronic ID card (standard issue in Belgium since a few years) with OpenSuSE 10.3. I work on a project at the regional Flemish Government at the moment, currently with tasks concerning access control to applications. Even if the eID card is a federal program, the regional governments have access to the resources when they want or need to.
This brought back my interest for the eID. Last time, it was the fact that I had to file my tax declaration, so there was limited time to test. This time, there wasn’t any deadline or rush. read more »
I like OpenSuSE. It, and its predecessors without the ‘Open’ part in their name have been my Linux environments of choice since my university days, back from SuSE 6.4. My use of Linux as an operating system has been steadily increasing, almost at the same pace of the quality and the possibilities of the applications the OS provided me with.
Belgium has invested quite some effort in what is called here the e-ID. It’s a smartcard used as identity card, with the added functionality of electronic signatures that are protected by a PIN code. One of the killer applications is considered Tax-On-Web, where one can do his tax declaration online.
For those that know me well, they have noticed that I’ve been bugged by the hardware that hasn’t been working with SuSE Linux (Openlinux since some time). A year and a half ago, we’ve bought ourselves a shiny new hp Pavilion zv 6068AE. Nice specs at the time:
Not bad. Sadly, at the moment of initial installation, my SuSE (9.3 at the time) had some troubles with the timing of the processor. It uses variable speeds, and there was a part that got confused. I saw minutes go by in half the time when the problem arose. SuSE 10.0 remedied that problem.
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