Andi’s GreenLabs.

I don’t know whether this post will make you satisfied or not, but I’ve been trying to make it easy for you.. . So, feel free to buzz me in comment form..

And by the way, this post has a lot of images.

Ok, I just want to make some updates for this tutorial, so this post’s another version of the topic described. I don’t know, it looks old for me, but of course I’m really thankful and appreciate for that documentation. Because of that, I write this post now. Continue Reading »

I need to write down this post, because it’s important when some tutorial I write needs more information refer to what hardware platform– processor that is used or size of my main memory machine, what kind of graphic adapter that it’s powered, etc– I’m using in those tutorials. So, the reader of this blog can consider on how to follow my tutorials correctly.

Almost all my posts are taken from many events that occur in my laptop– how things make some errors, how it’s important to report, and usefull to be documented. And it’s of course written in this laptop too..

Ok, lets see then how I describe my own machine in this my favorite blog.. Continue Reading »

I do like this gray desktop, the image suits the Plasma Toolbox (upper right corner of the screen) in this KDE 4.0.4 desktop. Its color makes my eyes feel very comfortable, It’ll cause me watching the screen longer than usual. Do you think it’s a most comfortable color for human’s eyes.. Right?

After knowing this news, I immediatly took YaST to update all KDE4 packages yesterday. Now, I’m going to mention how to do that in easy (GUI) way, how to install or update KDE 4 to your openSUSE machine (I’m recenty using openSUSE 10.3 right now and used in this whole tutorial). I assume You have installed KDE 4.0 before following this tutorial, see this to install KDE 4.0 in your openSUSE machine.

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You have to choose what tool that will manage all the software packages in your system, I choose YaST Software Management to do that in this (easy) tutorial. Continue Reading »

I recently use QStarDict to translate many english words to Bahasa Indonesia (and vice versa) or want to know more information about those words (I had used Gidic previously). I chose QStarDict because it’s written using Qt4 that will run fine and suitable in my KDE 4.0.3, my desktop environment I’m using right now. It was very useful before i encountered this problem : Continue Reading »

After knowing update status for OpenOffice.Org 2.4 would be released in last March, it was time to prepare updating these packages from OOo mirror of openSUSE (I’m using openSUSE 10.3 right now). Unfortunately, there were no signs whether these available to be updated or not– there are labeled with blue color in Package list of YaST Software Management if there is available a new version, such these Wine packages status: Continue Reading »

Don’t know, just want to show my current display on my openSUSE machine before starting a more serious post …