That is exactly why I have never used – and will never use – Facebook or anything like that.
Archive of posts filed under the Desktop category.
Automatic backup when inserting a drive
I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]
How to activate music preview in Nautilus
It allows to play a music file by letting the cursor over it, without opening a player. Very easy to set up : $ zypper install mpg123 and it should work immediatly.
“Why Mono doesn’t suck”
For the sake, a nice post which I hope will contribute to stop the FUD against Mono.
Microphone issue with openSUSE 11.1
Nice post that also solved my microphone issue with openSUSE 11.1 and Pulseaudio. Now every thing works well with Skype.
Linux vs Windows benchmark
I found this benchmark, comparing the performance of Ubuntu, Windows Vista and 7 worth reading. Our Linux kernel does a great job !
/etc/mtab~ issue at startup
I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup : Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file? As a result, some of the partitions were not mounted and the system was pretty much [...]
openSUSE 11.1
openSUSE 11.1 is out and already on all my desktop PC. This distribution is, by far, the best Linux environment for a desktop PC : very stable, up to date, polished, professional… I also appreciate the huges improvements made on Yast and the package management system. Despite being an advanced user that like to use [...]
