USB 2.0 Stick too Slow Under SuSE Linux 10?

Monday, March 27. 2006

Although I don't have an USB 2.0 stick, but I experienced this problem with my Nokia 6270 cell phone, which can also act as USB storage device (great phone!). Today I found Stefan Reisingers blog, where he explains the solution to this problem.

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Posted by Carsten Schlipf
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It's a Troll!

Sunday, March 26. 2006

Here is my new theme for KDE: Say welcome to Troll. I admit that it looks somewhat Gnomish, but it's still 100% KDE. KDE is built upon the QT Toolkit by Trolltech. So it has more in common with Trolls than with Gnomes. That should clarify the origin of the name. Screenshot of Troll Troll is a light and usable theme, which contains elements of Clearlooks mixed with fresh Green.

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Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Look and Feel.
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New Release of Embassy

Saturday, March 25. 2006

The Embassy KDE Theme experienced an major update. The new version contains a theme for KBFX, a different wallpaper and a slightly modified color scheme. Embassy with a tiny kickerScreenshot of EmbassyEmbassy with Gimp

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Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Look and Feel.
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GTK File Chooser Expanded by Default

Monday, March 13. 2006

Ever felt annoyed by that stupid GTK 2.x file chooser, which hides the folders by default and you have to click on Browse for other folders each time you wish to save a file in a folder other than the few provided in that weird Save in folder drop down list?

Default GTK File Chooser

And of course it's once again the "Users are stupid" mentality of Gnome, which even does not offer an option for the user to have it expanded by default. So I googled and found a description along with a patch for Gentoo, which expands the folders in the GTK file chooser dialog by default.

GTK File Chooser with Expanded Folders

I applied this patch to the SuSE 10.0 source RPM and it works. Here is my description on how to create a RPM including the patch and for the people who trust me I also offer the patched RPMs for download.


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Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under How Tos, Linux.
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Wordpress 2.0.2 Security Update

Friday, March 10. 2006

If you are using wordpress and haven't noticed yet. The good people released a security update.

Already upgraded, of course. No problems and the upgrade procedure description is much easier than last time.

Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Site.
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