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Adding applications to “Favorites Applications”

April 9, 2009 – 7:19 pm

Having your regularly used applications on the Start Menu under the “Favorites Applications” section will come in handy as it will enable you to quickly launch the application.  You can also create shortcuts (or technically speaking, links) on your Desktop to your favorite applications but some of us prefer a cleaner desktop.

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Short and quick tutorial for the command “find”

April 5, 2009 – 11:30 pm

We can learn about commands in Linux using the manpages, for example, to learn how to use the find command, we can just do # man 1 find However, this means we need to read the long manual and generally most of us are somewhat impatient.  We will give short and quick tutorials on the [...]

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How to install OpenOffice.org in SLES from a SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ISO file

March 30, 2009 – 7:41 pm

After installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11), there are some packages that may be required that’s not on the SLES 11 DVD but is available from the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) DVD. One such example is OpenOffice.org. If you already have the SLED DVD, you can install from it by [...]

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How to remove corrupted .gvfs directory

March 13, 2009 – 12:45 am

The .gvfs directory found in home directories of users is actually the GnomeVFS (Gnome Virtual File System).  This provides seamless and uniform access for the Nautilus file manager to  users data no matter where and how it is stored. Data can be stored on a remote mounted file system, the local disk, a USB drive [...]

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Manually Starting and Stopping Services in Suse/OpenSuse

February 28, 2009 – 4:50 am

YaST provides a extremely easy way for system administrators to manage which services run at boot. The YaST Runlevel Editor module is easy to understand and gives you important information about each service. You can choose to start or stop a process with nothing more than a mouse click.

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