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Workaround for VMware bug 2293 on OpenSUSE 11.4

After setting up my new Dell Precision T1600 with OpenSUSE 11.4 I found that I could no longer run VMware. Got a message about some NMI problem and bug # 2293.

Nice looking fonts in GTK applications on openSUSE 11.4

When I installed Open SuSE 11.4 yesterday I thought that the fonts used in GTK applications like Firefox and Thunderbird were really ugly.

Why do my Linux Samba share show underscores in file names when viewed on a Samba client?

Question: 

When a Samba client, Windows or Linux doesn't matter, connect to any of my shared directories all national characters in file and directory names are shown as underscores. Why?

Answer: 

Probably the directory character encoding used on your server doesn't match the setting unix charset in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you don't use UTF-8 you need to specify the character encoding with this setting.

Running the BitNami LAMP stack with the system MySQL

The excellent BitNami LAMP stack contains its own MySQL, which is started automatically and used by PHP.

Importing site certificate into Java Runtime certificate store

When your Java program attempts to connect to a server that has an invalid or self signed certificate, such as an application server in a development environment, you may get the following exceptio

Cherry Linux keyboard and Java

Since I couldn't get the KeyMan utility that came with my Cherry keyboard to work with SuSE 10.3 I had problems getting the Cut, Copy and Paste keys to work.

Preventing remote access to datasources

When you define a JDBC connection pool in Glassfish (AKA Sun Java System Application Server 9) and JDBC resources for it, you usually include a user name and password as pool properties.  You

Editing crontab for QNAP, and making it stick

If you have a QNAP you may want to run some scripts regularly. Editing the crontab seems to work but your changes don't survive a reboot. There is however a fairly simple solution:

Fixed DPI with NVIDIA driver on Linux

Question: 

How do I tell the NVIDIA driver to use a fixed DPI that does not depend on my screen size?

Answer: 

Add the following to the Device section in your xorg.conf:

Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "75 x 75"

Substitute the DPI you want for 75 above.