Doing a live upgrade in openSUSE to the latest version has certain advantages

GNU Screen is an often overlooked application which allows you to run programs in a console section, detach from them and then later resume them. They even keep running when you logout.

Random musings about programming, software, technical interviews, and of course Emacs - a tip every week for new and experienced users.

Dieses Tutorial beschreibt, wie man die Daten zwischen einem Notebook und einem Desktop-PC mit nur einem Mausklick und wenigen Tastendrücken synchronisiert. Verwendet wird das Konsolenprogramm rsync unter Linux per ssh.

This talk will start with a general introduction into Emacs and Org-mode. It will then step by step introduce the different concepts and applications of Org-mode using the example of a simple project. We will demonstrate how to brainstorm, plan and track a new project, how to take and organize notes, and how to turn the notes in web pages, printed reports and presentations. The talk is intended to be accessible to an audience without programming experience, but will also contain teasers for people with programming experience.

The GNU Project has provided dozens of useful utilities that you can find on almost every major Linux system, but many new Linux users have no idea where to start to learn these handy utilities. In this tutorial, I'll cover a few of the utilities that you can use to measure file system usage, verify the size of files, and take a peek into larger text files like Apache logs.

So i finally got Skype working on my OpenSUSE 11.1 64-bits install on my laptop (smolts -> Show Box ). Here is a quick run-through how i got it to