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.
Het huidige nummer van Linux magazine (#111) bevat een artikel over hoe onderzoekers Blender 3D gebruiken om te berekenen en te simuleren wat er gebeurt met het zand wanneer je over een strand loopt. Dit toont de extreme flexibiliteit aan van Blender, en geeft ook aan dat die mogelijkheden meer en meer worden geapprecieerd door de academische wereld.
Dit academisch gebruik wordt ook elke keer duidelijk in de verf gezet op de Blender conferences, waar elk jaar meer en meer indrukwekkende en interessante onderzoeken worden voorgesteld.
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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.
Penny Arcade
The first episode of Penny Arcade passed my attention without being noticed, which is a shame. I guess I had a period of less exposure to internet, and was preoccupied with work-related stuff. This time however, I noticed the availability of a Linux version for the second episode of Penny Arcade : the Rain-slick precipise of Darkness, and decided to check it out.
Oh boy. I wasn’t disappointed. read more »
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 
I guess it’s their way of wishing us ‘Happy Easter’, as the guys and gals from Linspire are doing a special promotion tomorrow (not much time, I know). This is the mail I received to announce the promo:
Garagegames seems to be very active at the moment, as only a few months after the 1.6 release, we are spoiled with the 1.7 release.
Looking at the changelog below, I notice the Collision Polygon and the Linkpoint editors, which are the only reasons this is a new release. If it had been only bugfixes, I would have expected a 1.6.1 version.
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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.
