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So… i finally managed to install opensuse, first impression was a bit slow system, mostly when loading applications. Once application is loaded it seems similar to my previous installation of ubuntu 6.10. Now i’m trying to add new repo with the yast wizard and this is taking way too long, i dont know what the heck it is downloading. My father just told me that the computer was a bit slow so, ill see if i can optimize this a bit….

I’m installing opensuse 10.2 on my family box and lets say that my installation experience got back to the linux old days. So far what i know from opensuse is,

-> You need to download a 3.7 DVD image.
-> Ugly Installer, no graphic mode (i have a p4 2.0 512 mb ram).

-> After installation opensuse did not boot.

Nothing has changed since i installed Suse 7.3 back in 2002.

If you are wondering why i am not installing ubuntu on this box, is just because it take ages to boot and thought on giving a chance to an other distro. Lets see if this end up working.

I have infinite tales about working with Microsoft Office for my University works. I’m not saying that the competitors are great but if you use the open source ones at least you have the chance to change that. For this an open format is needed, but this is not the case of ooxml.

This time i was in need of a mytop program but for postgresql and after some googleing i found pgtop. pgtop is a top like query monitor for postgresql. Installation was really easy i just downloaded the program, installed the needed modules and installed pgtop.

This is a tiny little plugin for xchat2, so every time someone says your name it will pop-up a notify.

You should copy the plugin to ~/.xchat2 if you want to load the plugin automatically at startup. Or you can use,

/py load filename
If you want to load a plugin

/py unload filename|modulename
If you want to unload a plugin

/py list
If you want to list loaded plugins

Yesterday I made a quick and dirty script to notify me about new mails on a exohelpdesk. But the interesting thing is that i found how to change the theme of the notifications (i really dont like the one with ubuntu). I blanked this gconf key value /apps/notification-daemon/theme and Tadah! I have a nicer look now.

Btw you could use the script to notify you about new mails also!