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Archive for October, 2010

DVDStyler – openSource DVD authoring software

Posted by admin on 30th October 2010

DVDStyler is a free opensource DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. DVDStyler actually is a GUI frontend for using dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow scripts to easily build DVD menus and assemble the DVD VOB files.

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1-click driver install for Compal Laptop

Posted by admin on 28th October 2010

Compal is a OEM manufacturer who along with Quanta make almost half of the worlds laptops which are sold by Dell, Compaq, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer,Hitachi, Gateway, Toshiba, NEC, Sony, Lenova and more.
Packman has a 1-click install for the following Compal Laptops:

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How to send email with attachments from command line

Posted by admin on 23rd October 2010

This is a quick tip for all those beginers on openSUSE, SUSE Linux or even for that matter on any Linux or Unix distros on how to send an email from command line with an attachment. This could be a text or an image file.

Posted in Internet & Browser | 6 Comments »

How to configure Postfix to send emails in openSUSE and SUSE Linux

Posted by admin on 22nd October 2010

Default installs of openSUSE and SUSE Linux will not be able to send emails. The following simple configuration procedure should help you setup postfix to send emails. Infact, this should work on most of the Linux distros.

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BCM4311/4312/4321/4322 Wireless in openSUSE 11.3

Posted by admin on 22nd October 2010

In openSUSE 11.3, laptops installed with the BCM4311/BCM4312/BCM4321/BCM4322 Wireless LAN cards like the Dell Inspiron 1525 do not have drivers installed and hence do not work out of the box. In Dell this Wireless card is labelled as “Dell 1395 Wireless card”. The broadcom-wl package which contain Broadcom’s IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom’s BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware doesn’t seem to work.
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Posted in openSUSE 11.3, Wireless | 4 Comments »