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Compiz, OpenSUSE 11 beta 2 and KDE4

Something has changed... but i succeded in setting up compiz... first of all i've executed what previously was called gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl and that's good!!! i'm using KDE why do i have to call gnome? then... i've executed

xgl-switch --enable-xgl

finally i've set up a symbolic link to compiz-manager into ~/.kde4/Autostart and restarted the laptop... the hardest way is the lack of informations but it's still so young...

Blogspot and new posts... it could be better...

This editor doesn't work with konqueror :_(

Wireless card, kernel module and firmware

Sometime it's not enought to have wifi card kernel modules loaded, sometime it is required to install the firmware too.
This is the case for the BCM94311MCG wlan mini-pci card which is the wifi card in the Acer Extensa 5620Z laptop.
OpenSUSE 10.3 (and OpenSUSE 11 beta 2, which is the O.S. i'm using right now) has kernel modules for that card but requires another step as root user.
Connect the PC to a network using the ethernet and run as root the following command:

/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

which will download and install the firmware.
Reboot the PC and configure the wireless card... everything should go in the perfect way (as happend to me with suse 10.3 and 11b2).

Shell aliases, the .bashrc file

To personalize the shell with additional aliases edit or create it if missing the ~/.bashrc file. More infos can be found at the bash man page. Don't add aliases in the ~/.profile cause they can be ignored.

Some applications to replace MS Windows II

• video capture: recordMyDesktop and encoding: KVideoEncoder (easy GUI to mencoder)
• UML: umbrello, BOUML
• privacy: KGPG instead of PGP
  

Google Webmaster Toolkit

From google page and after sign in, go to My Account and then Webmasters Tools.

Add your site, put the given meta tag (something like

<meta content='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' name='verify-v1'/>

) to verify it in the home page and complete the verify step.

Go on managing the web site, adding the sitemap which can be your RSS feed (for example http://morphy76.blogspot.com/rss.xml?max-results=500&start-index=1).

After a few time, indexes and statistics are created and the verify meta tag can be removed.

Trent the Great

It's possible to download the new NIN album for free from here.

Some applications to replace MS Windows

Lots of free alternatives, some examples:

• photo editing, imaging: TheGimp instead of Photoshop (not the same, but enough)
  
• photo archiving: digiKam, instead of Picasa (?);
• browser web: konqueror, firefox, opera, instead of Internet Explorer;
• email: kmail, thunderbird, evolution, instead of Outlook;
• chat: kopete, amsn, pidgin, instead of MSN, konversation instead of Mirc;
• voip: skype, gizmo, ekiga;
• dev: quanta+, eclipse, netbeans, kdevelop;
• filesharing: amule, ktorrent, instead of emule;
• ftp: kasablanca;
• burning: k3b instead of Nero;
• backup dvd: k9copy;
• multimedia: mplayer instead of Media Player, amaroK instead of iTune;
• dvd authoring: ManDVD, avidemux, cinelerra;
• office: openoffice, koffice instead of Office;
• desktop search engine: beagle instead of Google Desktop;
• desktop effects: compiz-fusion instead of Aero;
  
• other stuff: knotes, akregator...

...and gaming? Something can be found here

Intro

It's so bad to have a so empty page... so... this blog will be about some memories kept online... it should be better than having them as plain text files in my home directory. Some trivial, other, i hope, more interesting and they will be about java, linux, php, web... everything i think worth to be remembered.

This blog is written in (bad) english, cause it is very annoying when you think to have found a fix to your network card driver problem and then realize that the char-set and the language of the solution is something coming from mars...

The first step is del.icio.us: a great way to store and share bookmarks... so great that it can be used as a real alternative to search engines like goog ehm uhm... and yahoo...

A nice firefox plug-in, called My Del.icio.us, gives a very good integration between the service and the browser. A must.