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Our friend Daniel over at nofolder has created a new T-shirt to help publicize the product, the re-launch, etc. Head on over to the new nofolder store and pick one up today! By the way, Daniel assures us that he…
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It really shouldn’t be this hard. Or this silly. So you want to change your Opensuse machine to default runlevel 3 from runlevel 5, and that’s all. Seems easy enough. in fact, it used to be as easy as vi…
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I know what you’re thinking… “What does this have to do with Linux…?” The truth is folks, I have a day job. My company uses Office 2013 and Exchange. And I’m a happy BlackBerry user… normally… I mean I love…
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First things first. I want to thank all the folks that have poured a ton into making iFolder work for me. To all the unknown and un-named, thank you. Now, of course there are a few of you for which…
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Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures, (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 12.1 to 12.2: zypper modifyrepo –all…
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By now, you’ve figured out that I’m an OpenSUSE fan. I’ve been kicking the tires on the newest release, 12.2, as a desktop OS and server OS. As a desktop, the new Gnome environment takes a bit of getting used…
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Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures, (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 11.4 to 12.1: zypper modifyrepo –all –disable…
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I have an Opensuse 12.1 workstation that I use as a script “toolbox”, out in the regular cubicle space where I work. Because it sits smack-dab in the middle of a DHCP-based environment — and the corporate policy is to…
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There’s just nothing like iFolder. And soon (if not already), there may not even be iFolder. Make sure to stop by the noFolder.com site, read Dan’s plea, and vote in his “What is iFolder worth to you?” poll. You see,…
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For about as long as I’ve been able to spell “bash”, I’ve seen the debates on the ‘Net about the proper way to use the shell to loop through a text file line-by-line (rather than item-by-item). Of the small handful…
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