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Hi,

phew after lots of search finally my acer 1642 ( view specifications ) laptop with suse 10.2 communication with Access Point. :D

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG is my wireless card and its detected by suse 10.2 but as i turn my wifi on led is not lightening up and nothing works  as i searched  i found that suse 10.2 includes driver for my wireless lan card but firmware is missing so all i have to do is install proper firmware for my card.

Some forums mentioned that for suse10.2 and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card proper firmware is version 3 and all i have to do is download it and extract it into /lib/firmware. Reboot.

After reboot my led lighten up and i installed some packages like knetworkmanager from yast to manage my wireless connections.

Regards
Najam Sikander Awan

Another nice article i found on a very nice website and i thought it would be great to share with you.

In terms of designing for the web, a Design Pattern can be defined as a repeatable solution to a commonly-occurring usability problem. Design Patterns can vary from being strict ideologies on how you should lay out code, to more general methodologies on how you can make interacting with a website more natural and less frustrating.

Written by Jon

Coding can be quite dogmatic - often there are methods that are incontrovertibly “the best” or at least far better than other methods. Design Patterns for interaction and usability, however, is an area that is a bit more subjective - and thus interesting. They are also far more apparent to the common user - whilst a user might not notice (or even care about) your flawless coding, the experience that your website provides them through it’s ease of use will have a definite impact on a user’s “happiness”. Here are 5 Design Patterns for web design that I think contribute to a happy browsing experience…

Instant Form Feedback

I’ve lamented over unusable forms before, in the Warm Fuzzy Feelings article. Now I’m back and my preferences are more specific than ever!

On any form element that needs to be validated (for example on a “member registration” form, checking that a username has not already been registered), the check should be made immediately after the user stops typing. Too many forms still use the old convention of sending you to a separate validation page telling you “Sorry! This, This, This and This was wrong with your form! Try Again!“. Filling in forms is undeniably boring, and it baffles me as to why anyone would want to risk frustrating users at such a critical time as member registration. You can see my implementation of an instant feedback registration form here.

AJAX Tabbed Content

I’ll get some disagreement here, but I think AJAX Tabbed Sub-Content is a good thing. For an example, take a look at the new Yahoo! homepage. There are two AJAX-powered tabbed sub-content panels that deliver the bulk of the page’s most pertinent information.

Each tab switches out the panel’s content for something else. Now, this could all be done with some simple Javascript and CSS to “hide and show” the content panels, but the beauty of the AJAX method is you can keep your page load time down to a minimum - users get a fast-loading page and don’t have to wait those extra few miliseconds for the (for example) “Sports” content to download in the background, which they might not even want to see anyway. The Yahoo method also uses some extra Javascript to remember what tab you left open from your last visit. Overall, a nice implementation.

Semi-Transparent Overlay Notices

Popularised by Lightbox and now Digg, I think we are going to see more and more of this design pattern as time goes on, because it makes so much sense. Common website notices such as “you need to be logged in to do that” shouldn’t exist as a separate entity to the action that invoked them. For example if I attempt an action on a website that requires me to be logged in for that action, bringing me to a separate page saying “Sorry, you need to be logged in to do that” is only compounding the problem of my action. I’ll have to wait for another page to load, read the message, and then either go back to log in or log in from this newly-loaded page.

Digg and other sites are now employing a semi-transparent overlay that pops up when you attempt something like the above. Sequentially it makes much more sense - you are not taken away from where you were, you are simply notified of the error and are then free to rectify it from exactly where you left off.

Elastic Design

Elastic Design is in very basic terms, building your site so that it scales relative to the user’s desired text size. For a good example go here and make your browser’s text size bigger or smaller.

In practice it can be quite frustrating for a web designer to build a site that is completely elastic, retains the design aesthetic at any size and also displays correctly in all browsers - but I think Elastic Design Elements are definitely a design pattern we will see more of in the future.

Why is this good for users? Well, not everyone wants to view the site at the font-size you specify. Users can always change their browser’s text size - but in a fixed, non-elastic design, increasing the text size can both mess up the layout or just look silly when you have text columns with 5 words to a line. Creating a fluid, elastic design with a content column that preserves the line width (in terms of words) creates a much better experience for users who need to view your site differently to how you intended it.

Public Test Areas

There are so many websites and web services requiring registration nowadays that I find myself really evaluating which ones are worth my time before signing up - each sign up is another password to remember, my personal information stored in yet another place on the web, and possibly some sort of newsletter thing in my mailbox now and again. Do I really want all that?

There has evolved a kind of weird opportunity cost to consider, when registering with these web services - despite most of them being free. Therefore, letting a user know exactly what your service is before you ask them to surrender their personal information to you is absolutely vital. A good public test area is a win-win situation - you provide everyone with the chance to try your service, and in return you get registered users who found genuine value in your service, not simply people who were curious and signed up to see what it’s all about, then never came back. For an excellent example of a public test area that lets you play with everything before you sign up, have a look at Wufoo.

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A while ago I put this photo on my flickr page and it was chosen to go on the official flickr blog as the photo of that day (September 23rd). To date it has been viewed over 2000 times.

The photo was actually one in a whole series of photos I shot for a client presentation, detailing the website design / development process in a manner that was easily understandable and also fun to look at. This article takes you through that process, using the same photos. We hope you enjoy the pictures and if it also helps you to manage your workflow better if you are starting out as a web designer then that’s cool too :)

However, as is the organic nature of these things, there are an infinite amount of variables that can affect the project timeline. For that reason, projects are never ever as clear-cut as in this sequence of photos. Things may need to be done over and over, steps may get jiggled around, you may need more time for CMS / back-end development etc - so please think of this sequence as merely a basic example of the kind of process that I have grown comfortable with, speaking as a web designer/developer.

Naturally you’re going to want to start your project with a client chit-chat. At the first meeting you need to establish the basic scope of the work - what needs to be done, roles and responsibilities, who is your point of contact for materials (text content, images) etc.

Think about how you are going to structure things. What is important? What is not? What needs to be on every page? Depending on the scale of the project you might want to create a visual sitemap for your client. Preparing a sitemap is essential if you are reorganising content in any way.

A wireframe is a skeleton website, indicating all the navigation, function and content elements that will appear on the final website, but with no graphic design elements. It is used to iron out any problems or missing elements, and will act as the blueprint for the content, design and construction work that comes later.

How you create the wireframe is up to you - for small sites it might be fine to just line-draw it in Illustrator or Photoshop, but for larger, more complex sites, it might be necessary to actually code the wireframe into HTML so the client can click around to check everything is in the right place.

Working from the sitemap and wireframe, you and the client get together to start planning the content - specifically the text. Content planning and writing is probably the biggest workload the client will have during the project - and it can really take some time.

Whilst all this is going on, the designer can be working on the base design - the homepage and main sub-level pages.

When the base design is ready, the client needs to check that you are heading in the right direction and suggest adjustments to the design accordingly.

…which will probably involve going back and tweaking things…

…until everyone is happy.

This process of work-feedback-rework is repeated at various stages in the project. Besides preparing the content, this confirmation process is also one of the main responsibilities of the client.

Once the base design is agreed on, you can start working on the layout and design of each of the individual pages of the site.

And once again they are checked, reworked and then finally confirmed.

You can then begin to build the actual HTML pages…

…and the CSS (I guess I could have put that all in one step, but I really like the little robot guy).

Feedback again. You and the client work together - work-feedback-rework - to polish and tweak things until you have a completed site.

The final stage of production is the debug. The site needs to be tested across all platforms to iron out any technical problems, and checked thoroughly for content errors. Naturally, throughout the HTML & CSS development stage you should be checking cross-browser functionality anyway but you definitely need a big check at the end too - one that you actually set aside a decent amount of time for.

The picture says “The End” - but of course you don’t just grab the cheque and run for the door - you need to watch the site for at least around 10 days or so after launch in case of problems, and if necessary fix things.

1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.

2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.

3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.

4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.

5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.

6. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.

7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.

8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.

9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.

10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.

11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.

12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar.

13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out.

14. Hold Ctrl and press "+" or "-" it will change the % for image in navigator window.

15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background.

16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle.

17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.

18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone.

19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform.

20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.

21. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.

22. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.

23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.

24. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.

25. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.

26. Hold Shift and press "+" or "-" it will switch between the layer mode:

N = Normal
I = Dissolve
M = Multiply
S = Screen
O = Overlay
F = Soft Light
H = Hard Light
D = Color Dodge
B = Color Burn
K = Darken
G = Lighten
E = Difference
X = Exclusion
U = Hue
T = Saturation
C = Color
Y = Luminosity
Q = Behind 1
L = Threshold 2
R = Clear 3
W = Shadow 4
V = Midtones 4
Z = Highlights 4

***The shortcut works even for following situation:

***Alpha turned off, Indexed Mode, Line tool, Bucket Tools, Dodge and Burn Tools

27. While using Brush or any other tools, change the opacity by typing the number.

*** type one number for % of it's ten times [4=40%]

***type two number for exact % [press 7 then 2 will get 72%]

28. Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer, it will hide all other layers.

29. Hold Alt while clicking the pen icon beside the layer, it will unchain this layer from all layers.

30. Select a layer, hold Alt and click the top edge of another layer, it will group them.

31. Hold Alt and click the button "Create a new layer", it will create a new adjustment layer.

32. Select a layer and hold Alt, then click on the garbage can button. It will instantly delete the layer, marquee where you want alpha and Ctrl+click the "Create new channel" button, it will create an alpha only on the area you marquee.

33. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.

34. When Move Tool is selected, toolbox on top can be useful from time to time, these are "Auto select layer" and "Show bounding box".

35. While Move Tool is selected, hold Shift (Alt+Shift+Right click) and allow whether or not to make a current layer chain with your upper layer.

36. With grid on, click the top left corner of the grid and drag to anywhere on the image to set the pivot, double clicking on the icon again reset the pivot.

37. After, draw a path on the image with pen tool, Ctrl+shift+H can hide/show it.

38. Control Navigator with keyboard sometimes can be more time efficient than mouse.

***

Home = move to top left corner
End = move to right bottom corner
PageUp = move up one page
PageDown = move down one page
Ctrl+PageUp = move left one page
Ctrl+PageDown = move right one page
Shift+PageUp = move up 10 pixel
Shift+PageDown = move down 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageUp = move left 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageDown = move right 10 pixel

39. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.

40. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.

41. Shortcuts for Channel: RGB, CMYK, indexed color...

***

Ctrl+"~" = RGB
Ctrl+1 = red
Ctrl+2 = green
Ctrl+3 = blue
Ctrl+4 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+"~" = CMYK
Ctrl+1 = light green
Ctrl+2 = pink red
Ctrl+3 = yellow
Ctrl+4 = black
Ctrl+5 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+1 = Indexed
Ctrl+2 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path

42. hold Ctrl then you can draw a red box in the Navigator thumbnail for viewing.

43. Hold Alt and click on any of the history steps, that step will be copied and become the most recent one.

44. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.

45. Alt-click the flare preview thumb, and you can fill in numerical co-ordinates for lens flare.

46. Holding Shift + Alt while transforming an object will do it proportionally, from the center.

47. If you have the move tool selected and you want something duplicated just hold the alt key and move the image, holding the Shift + Alt while doing this, it will move it along one axis.

48. If you want to straighten an image that is crooked (maybe from scanning), click on the eyedropper tool or hit the I key 3 times to get the ruler. Click on the left side of the straight edge, then the right side of the straight (but crooked) edge. The choose Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary, Photoshop will give you the degrees of rotation you just click ok.

49. If you create something in Illustrator, copy and paste it in Photoshop, it will ask you if you want this to be a pixel, path, or shape layer.

50. If you have a mask on a layer and you want to place a image in there and keep the mask. Simply open the image, say copy, and then Ctrl click on the layer to select the mask and use Shift + Ctrl + V to paste it into the mask which will also put it on a new layer as well.

51. To center an image, Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, I think it also puts that image on a new layer.

52. Ctrl+E will merge the highlighted layer down to the next

53. When you have a brush selected, using [ or ] will scroll up or down that brush list.

54. Double clicking the zoom tool will make the image 100%, double clicking the hand tool will fit the image to your screen resolution.
55. Typing Content:

Ctrl + H will hide the highlight on your selected type.

If you click once while your type is selected on the font list, you can use your arrows to scroll up and down and see the fonts change on the fly!

Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 10
Ctrl + Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 100
Ctrl + Alt + Up or Down arrows will change your leading in increments of 10 pts
Shift + Ctrl with < or > will change your font size in increments of 2 pts

56. Ctrl + Alt + T to make a copy of the layer in which you want to transform.

57. Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow. duplicates the layer you are on.

58. Change the active layer : Alt + [ or ].

59. Move the active layer up and down : Ctrl + [ or ].

60. Link 2 layers: with move tool click in the first layer hold Shift and click in the second one.

61. Ctrl+[plus key] will let you zoom in on an image anytime while Ctrl+[minus key] zooms out. Ctrl+Alt+[plus key] will zoom in AND RESIZE the window to fit the image size... same for Ctrl+Alt+[minus key] as well.

62. When using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, click backspace to undo a lasso step.

63. Pressing X will switch the selected foreground and background colors.

64. Pressing D will reset the foreground and backgrounds colors to black and white.

65. If your image has multiple layers, create a Marquee selection and press Ctrl+Shift+Cit won't work if you selected a hidden layer) will copy the image into memory as if they were flattened! Paste it on a new document to see the result.

66. Ctrl+Alt+Z will do multiple undo, versus just one.

67. Ctrl+click a layer thumbnail to select the layer transparency

68. To see what your layer mask looks like (and edit it), Alt+click its thumbnail in the layers palette

69. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt and click the Help bar with your mouse, drag it down and highlight "About Photoshop" and let go of the left mouse button for a different About Photoshop splash/screen.

70. When using Polygon lasso tool hold Shift to make a perfect line, it goes every 30 degrees

71.Photoshop CS2: Group many layers by clicking the layers you want to group by clicking it while holding the Shift key down, and then press Ctrl+G to group them into a folder for means of better organization.

72. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new layer with a dialog box; Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N gets you a new layer without the hassle.

73. Back to brush, [ and ] will increase/decrease your brush size, Shift + [ or ] will soften or harden your brush edge.

74. Still in [ and ], Ctrl + [ or ] will move your currently selected layer up and down the hierarchy and Shift + [ or ] will select upper layer or lower layer.

75. Stamp Tool (s) is used to copy an area of image (defined by alt+clicking and area) and paint it somewhere else (cloning). It also works when you have multiple images open at the same time. Alt click an area of any opened file image and paint it anywhere else.

76. After you created a text you can click on font type tab and tap "down" key over and over to scroll through the font list and see the changes in (relatively) real time. A feature that I am tired of waiting to happen in illustrator.

77. Still in text mode, a trick from Microsoft word to apply hi-light to your text hit Ctrl+Shift+ < or > to resize your text, to your preferred font size. Pressing Ctrl key while you are typing also gives you a free transform box temporarily and will go if you release it. Resizing text also works by pressing Ctrl+T (on selected layer, not when you are typing). It still retains as an editable text layer after.

78. And remember, pressing enter when you type will take you to a new line just like typing a letter but pressing Ctrl+Enter or Enter on numeric key will finish what you type.

79. You can drag a layer on to any other opened images in Photoshop and it will copy it as a layer (better than copy and paste image). Holding down Shift while moving it will snap the image right on the center of the other opened image

80. If you are working with sets....

Click on the set, in the blending mode it shows pass through by default... if you have an adjustment layer within a set and you want that adjustment layer to effect those layers underneath it within the set only, set the blending mode of the set to "normal" instead.

CODE

Mentioned before with more explanation:

- Pressed F to switch to 3 different viewing mode... when I first try it I said "wtf? what it's for?" Well, if you are sick of painting your image on the corners just to find yourself resizing your current image window, with F you can pan way outside your image. Happy corner painting!!

- Create a new file, 500x500 px, create a new layer, get a standard brush and paint a dot on the top center of your image (like the number 12 position on a clock). Press Ctrl+Alt+T, it will duplicate your original layer and free transform the new one. Move the pivot point (the circle with little dot in it found when you are free transforming something) to the center of your image, rotate your image 30 degrees to the right and hit OK to confirm the transform

now.........

Be excited..........

Hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T 10 times and see what happens!

81. When using the "move tool" you can select any layer by holding down the CTL key(CMD on a Mac) and clicking on the part of the layer on the canvas with your mouse. This way you won't have to go to the Layers palette every time and you don't have to keep checking on or off the auto select options for the move tool.

82. You can link up layers without going into the layers palette, by selecting the layer (how I just mentioned above) and holding down CTL + Shift(CMD + SHIT on a Mac) for each additional layer you want to link up. You can unlink them by clicking on the layer again.

83. You can delete more than one layer at a time.......by linking up all the layer you want to delete, and holding down CTL(CMD on a Mac) while you click on the garbage icon to delete the layer.

84. When using the type tool you can ok it by pressing CTL + Enter(CMD + Enter on a Mac) instead of clicking on the check mark on the options.

85. If you have more than one type layer, and want to make any of the following changes color/font/size/alignment/initializing to all of the type layers at the same time.....All you have to do is link up the type layer, hold down the Shift key and in the options for the type tool make your change i.e. color, size, etc.

86. You can use your number pad to change opacity for a layer.... I.e. type 5 and the opacity will be 50; type 55 and the opacity will be 55. You can use the number pad for any tool that uses opacity...like the airbrush tool, stamp tool, brush, gradient, etc.

87. Pressing Tab key will hide the Tools palette and any other palette that you have on the stage. Pressing "F" will change between Full Screen modes. Using these two tips you can view your work Full Screen without any palettes.(You can press CTL+Alt+0 to fit your work to the screen, or you can press CTL+0 to zoom to 100%)

88. Pressing the "+" and "-" keys while holding down CTL+Alt will resize the whole document window, not just the work area.

89. You can delete a layer by holding down the "Alt" key and pressing "L" twice......actually now with Photoshop 7 you got to press "L" three times. It's not actually a keyboard shortcut, but it's a quick way to do it....don't know if it works on a MAC.

90. Pan documents with the space bar.

91. Ctrl+click a layer (in layers palette) to select it's transparency.

92. Ctrl+Alt+click between 2 layers in the palette to group them.

93. Alt + click in “add layer mask” button to add a black layer mask (instead of a white one).

94. When you select something, pressing Ctrl+J will copy the selected area and add another layer with the copied area - opposing copying the layer, making a new layer, and pasting it.

95. To glue the palettes together (all palettes combined into one strip), you just drag & drop a palette onto the end of another palette (watch the rectangle that indicates where the palette will get attached to).

96. Hold down Alt while Burning to Dodge instead, and vice versa.

97. Ctrl-click a layer to select an objects; alternatively, you may select more than one object/s in more than 1 layer by holding Shift while using the method just mentioned (Ctrl-click). To deselect, just press Ctrl+D.

98. If you have a mini scroll on your mouse, you may use that to zoom in (scroll up) or zoom out (scroll down).

99. Need to locate a layer quick? Use the Move Tool (V) and right click on the area the object lays. There should now be a “cursor-menu” with all the layers that is in that particular area. Now take a good guess and see which one of them fits the shoe; select a layer and Ctrl-Click the layer in the Layer Palette - see if the selection traces the object you desired to edit/find. Useful for those messy people (i.e. me!).

100. Need to get rid of a background quick? Assuming you at least know how to crop around an object, do so. Now press Ctrl+I or Shift+Ctrl+I for Inverse Selection. Press Ctrl+X to %@#!* that part out, and you should be left with the object!

101. Want to save the time from loading All your Photoshop brushes, when your Photoshop accidentally forgets to load them up (happens to me sometimes)? Select the brush tool, and click the little arrow pointing right (located at the top toolbar), next to the Master Diameter tick. Go down to Preset Manager and now there should be a menu of all the brushes currently loaded. Click on the first brush (top left) and scroll down to the bottom. Now hold Shift and click the last brush (bottom right). This should highlight all the brushes. See the “Save Set” to the right in the menu? Click that and name your brush set whatever you want, for this matter I just name it All (so I remember that this brush set contains all the brushes I currently have loaded, and is located near the top when loading the brushes up).

After switching to suse what I badly missed is vychat a very popular LAN chat client

that support many useful functions such as file transfer and real time chat capabilities. All of my network users use windows and they communicate and file transfer with each other using vychat so after setting up suse I googled and end up with many vychat clones for unix and linux. Below is the list of some clones

1. Trix

2. Vqcc-gtk

3. Vyqchat

I have successfully installed trix and vqcc-gtk but the only problem with them is that they were not showing any users. So I decided to take help from linux irc help channels and from there a kind guy named yasir told me that i have to either disable firewall or add vychat ports to my susefirewall.

After disabling firewall i get all of my users in trix and vqcc-gtk. You can turn on and off firewall on suse by typing following commands in shell as root.

Turning firewall off
rcSuSEfirewall2 stop

turning firewall on
rcSuSEfirewall2 start

NOTE: The package manager in Suse 10.2 appears to be working a lot better than the one in 10.1, so this time we will be using YAST and not SMART to install the required packages.

The first step in resolving the multimedia issue is to setup additional YAST software sources. The software repositories used in this howto, are Packman and Guru. If possible, please use a mirror instead of the main download site to prevent overloading one download location. The mirrors for Packman are listed here and the ones for Guru are on the section titled "Mirrors" on this page.

Adding the Packman Repository

1. Start YAST -> Software -> Installation Source and click on "add"

2. Select HTTP or FTP as the protocol and click on "next"

3. In the box that is labeled "Server Name" enter the address of the ftp or http server of your mirror e.g. mirror.geht-schon.de or ftp.uni-erlangen.de. Please do not enter the preceding http:// or ftp://.

   Working Example:
   Server Name: mirror.geht-schon.de

4. In the box labeled "Directory on Server", enter the path to the packman directory for Suse 10.2 e.g. /packman.links2linux.de/suse/10.2 or /pub/mirrors/packman/suse/10.2
   Working Example:
   Directory on Server: /packman.links2linux.de/suse/10.2

5. Once thats done, click on the finish button and depending on your net connection YAST may take a few seconds or a few minutes to setup the repo.

NOTE: If you are asked about a "KEY" please choose the option to import the key.

Adding the Guru Repository

*The process is similar to adding the packman repo, the only difference being the mirros, so I won't delve into that. Follow the instructions above and just substitute server names and directory paths.

Working Example

Server Name: ftp.gwdg.de
Directory on Server: /pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/RPMS

Installing the required packages

Once the mirrors have been setup do the following,

1. YAST -> Software -> Software Management

2. Search for xine and when the search results show up:

   • Select libxine1 for installation

3. Select xine-lib for deinstallation

4. If you want amarok to use the xine engine, select "amarok-xine" for installation if it is not already installed

5. If you use totem and prefer to use xine instead of gstreamer as the backend, select libxine1-gnome-vfs for installation

6. Search for w32codec and select it for installation

Once thats done, click accept and YAST should install the packages for you and hopefully you can play mp3, mp4, wmv etc.

NOTE: We did not use any packages from the Guru repository, but it has some apps e.g. Kmplayer, amarok-xmms, and others as well as not multimedia packages that you may find useful.

Playing encrypted DVD discs

Xine cannot play encrypted dvd discs without some help. If you want to do this, then go to videolan and download the libdvdcss rpm. Install the rpm by doing

Code:

#rpm -Uvh libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm

NOTE: Using libdvdcss maybe illegal in your country, so please check with the authorities before downloading and using it. We will not be held responsible or accountable if you use this software where you are not supposed to.

A note on package management

If you have problems with your package manager, it maybe a good idea to drop back to the old Suse package manager instead of the Zenworks related tools. To do this do

1. YAST -> Software -> Software Management

2. On the "Filter" box, select "Patterns"

3. Navigate to the "Enterprise Software Management" pattern and deselect it and all the packages listed on the right

4. Click accept and once YAST has completed the changes, close it and reboot.

When the system starts, you will notice that you have different tools for updating the system although YAST will work as usual but using the old backend.

NOTE: As usual, any comments, addition and correction are welcome.

Have fun.

Turning firewall off
 rcSuSEfirewall2 stop
turning firewall on
rcSuSEfirewall2 start

run both as root

tested on suse 10.2

hi guyz

Today i formated my c drive in which vista was installed and i replaced it with windows xp after installing win xp into my c drive my boot loader is disappeared as expected.

Fixing  grub  (boot loader) is simple insert your suse 10.2 dvd or frist cd into drive and boot from it choose "Rescue System" after loading some stuff system will take you into command prompt

1. first I list all of my partitions by using fdisk -l

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/sda1   *           1        2167    17406396    7  Fat32
   /dev/sda2            5822       12161    50926050    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
   /dev/sda3            2168        5821    29350755    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
   /dev/sda5            5822        6076     2048256    b  W95 FAT32
   /dev/sda6            6077        6270     1558273+  82  Linux swap 
   /dev/sda7            6271        7837    12586896   83  Linux
   /dev/sda8            7838       12161    34732498+  83  Linux

2. Then enter grub
3. root (hd0,6)
4. setup (hd0)
5. quit
6. reboot :)