Gmail protocolhandler for Firefox

Simply follow the instructions here:

http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links

So there are games for Linux

Yeah, really, they do exist!!!

http://omgsuse.com/content/10-awesome-free-games-opensuse?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+omgsuse+%28OMG!+SUSE!%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Force fsck on reboot

Turns out to be as simple as creating an empty file called forcefsck in the root filesystem, like:

touch /forcefsck

then hit reboot and get a cup of whatever beverage seems appropriate at the moment.

Eclipse and XulRunner suggest or autocomplete nastyness

As it turns out, after some serious annoyance and googlesque digging, XulRunner 1.9.1 and Eclipse do seem to have some serious cooperation issues to work out.

Instead, just deinstalling 1.9.1 and installing 1.9.2 seems to work a lot more like expected....

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=303372

New netbook or upgrade old one?

Well, after doing some market research i've decided to stick with my >1y old Acer Aspire One and upgrade the memory to 1.5GB.
Sometimes you don't have to be ahead of the flock to enjoy what you have, actually the Acer is a fine little machine, one of the main features i like about it is its solid state hdd, which enables me to use it even in more bumpy circumstances.

Awell, here are a few links:
Upgrading the memory:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/28/how-to-add-ram-to-the-acer-aspire-one-netbook/

And replacing the (very shortly lived) dead accu:
http://store.acer-euro.com/home/aspire-one-6-cels-accu-zwart.html?s=6&l=en&p=3&i=36107

Using nouveau on openSUSE 11.3

Nouveau, for those unknowing souls, is the next generation open source nvidia display driver.

Starting to use it however, after an openSUSE 11.1 -> 11.2 -> 11.3 upgrade, could be cumbersome.
Especially resolutions tend to be not resolved correctly.

To try and polish things up, try the following console command:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

then restart X (ctrl+alt+backspace or the nicer way of logging out).
Everything will be detected automagically then

openSUSE on a stick

The release of 11.3 is a good opportunity to perform some sweeping, swooping and swapping off the depricated 11.1 and 11.2 versions of my infrastructure, therefor it comes in very handy when one just needs to run around carrying an usb stick instead of having to burn/reburn rewritables....
Anyway, follow the following steps and you should be right as rain (mostly copied from http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick):

• Insert the usb stick into a free usb (yeah, really) port
• Check if it shows up after issuing the following console command: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*
• If it does, then unmount it: umount /dev/sdX (X being the disks id)
• Now write the iso onto the stick: dd if=/path/to/iso/NameOf.iso of=/dev/sdX
• After a few moments something reassuring (like how many bites were written) should appear and your good to go!