Zulus Tips

Few weeks ago I became owner of new 22 inch monitor Samsung SyncMaster 225BW. I has plan to sell my old 19 inch HP1905, but today i decide to try dual monitor setup on my desktop PC. I’ve spent about 3 hours to get everything work and now I’m fully confident that two monitors are better than one.

There is a lot of guides and a few ways how-to configure multi monitor systems under Linux. Most of time i have try follow guides to get my system working, but reading documentation is always better ;-). Below you can find some tips about dual monitor setup. This post is not complete HOWTO, but maybe you can find some answers

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If you use Mozilla Thunderbird with KDE you already know that by default Thunderbird open hyperlinks in konqueror. If konqueror your main browser - this post is not for you ;-) Below you can find way how-to force Thunderbird to open hyperlinks in Firefox.

First thing that we need to do is create shell script:
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In next few days i will go to business trip to Amsterdam. Flight time is about 3.5 hours, so i will have chance to test my new PDA Battery. I have a few ideas how to spent flight time, and i descided to watch few movies. Following short how-to will help you encode movies for your PDA.

To encode movies you need mencoder (from MPlayer package) and at least xvid and mp3 codecs. I have this codec packages installed on my desktop:

libavcodec0d
libxvidcore4
w32codecs

Before start encoding you need to note few parameters:

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Here is easy way to find all broken symlinks:


for i in `find / -type l`; do [ -e $i ] || echo $i is broken; done

My Windows Server experience is less than average. Basically yesterday was a third time when i see Win3k installed on server, and first time when i have install/configure it.

Everything goes fine until I’m try to enable logon screen. Default installation haven’t logon screen, so after windows boot up, i has Administrator UI without entering any password. I’ve spent 30 minutes trying to find where i can enable logon and i didn’t find anything. Only after 15 minutes of googling i have found solution. That is unreal, i’ve spent about hour to find solution and only 2 minutes to implement it. So, here is commands you need to enter to enable logon screen:

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Ubuntu Dapper was my desktop OS for a last half year, and I’m totally happy with this OS. I’ve use a lot of Linux distributions, and I’m sure what Ubuntu is best for desktop.

I’m start thinking about update as soon as Edgy was released. I have read a lot of unsuccessful stories about upgrades. But i should try, because KDE 4 is coming soon, and upgrade from Dapper to next Ubuntu release with KDE 4 will be much harder. So i need some intermediate release to have chance to get fresh KDE on my desktop.

Below i will post brief how-to, but please note, that is not 100% recipe, and this can not work for your system, and I’m not responsible for any data loss ;-)

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