Monthly Archives: September 2006

Configuring the DHCP client

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

To save power, my DSL router is automatically shut down when my computer is powered off. When I start the computer, the router is also started. This works fine. The problem is that when the router is started, it takes … Continue reading →

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Migrating Thunderbird mail and settings from Windows to Linux

Posted on September 23, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

I have been using Mozilla Mail and later Thunderbird for my email for around five years. My mail folders contain over half a gigabyte of communication, that I definitely do not want to lose. So moving to Linux, I also … Continue reading →

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Firefox fails to start after updating to 1.5.0.7

Posted on September 23, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

In today’s shipment of updates to OpenSUSE was the latest version af Firefox, 1.5.0.7. As usual, I indiscriminately chose to get all available updates, including Firefox. When the updater reported succesfully completing the update, I started Firefox. And waited. And … Continue reading →

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Speeding up VMware Server console connections

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

This post does not have much to do with OpenSUSE, but it could be useful for people trying out OpenSUSE in a virtual machine using the free VMware Server virtualization product. For some reason, console connections to running virtual machines … Continue reading →

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Trouble with 1920×1200 resolution

Posted on September 10, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

Today, I replaced my Lacie 19″ CRT with an awesome Dell 2407 WFP LCD widescreen connected via DVI to a GeForce4 MX graphics card. After booting, everything was fine until I reached the xdm login screen. Somehow the display was … Continue reading →

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