Install Fujitsu-Siemens version If you want to install a Microsoft Office and you happen to only have an OEM version from Fujitsu-Siemens, you’ll notice that it refuses to install on any Non-FSC-PC. But after some peeking around on the CD, you’ll find a suspiciously large file Install\OFF_FSC.EXE with around 250 MiB. Taking a look at… Read More: Microsoft Office OEM »
If you have a router and Internet works with any application/site but you can’t connect to any microsoft.com site (e.g. WindowsUpdate, Windows Live Messenger [error code: 81000306], etc.) you might have your MTU set to a too high value. The default MTU for ethernet devices is 1500 but since the PPPoE header adds 8 Bytes… Read More: microsoft.com not working »
Moneyplex is an online banking application especially for the German HBCI banking system. Umlauts in Ubuntu Since Ubuntu is fully UTF-8 for some time now (and Moneyplex isn’t), you’ll see strange things when using it: Some umlauts are replaced by question marks while others are printed fine. To get everything working, you have to generate… Read More: Moneyplex »
If you are missing the Wireless Zero Configuration (in German: Konfigurationsfreie drahtlose Verbindung), you might have installed a D-Link driver. To get the Windows tool back, there’s a nice manual at practicallynetworked.com:
Preface Being proud owner of a U3 capable flash drive, I wanted to add some of the tools I use everyday but which were not U3 compatible. Running a U3 program from the LaunchPad basically does the following things: Ejecting the U3 drive does the following for all programs which were ran in that session:… Read More: U3Helper »
To use features like circular scrolling of a Synaptics touchpad, you need to add the following lines to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: You also need to add the following line into your ServerLayout section in that… Read More: Synaptics Touchpad »
wcd is a tool which catalogs all directories of your $HOME (can be configured to catalog the whole drive) and then lets you type wcd Desktop and switches over to your ~/Desktop from wherever you are. Or you can type wcd “Rammstein*” and it will show you a list of your Rammstein-albums of your ~/Music-directory… Read More: Wherever Change Directory »
Simultaneous playback The festival text-to-speech synthesizer seems to use normal ALSA playback instead of PulseAudio. This leads to it failing when there’s already something playing. E.g. if you’re listening to music with Rhythmbox, festival fails with this message: To make it use PulseAudio, we can re-route the audio through the pacat utility as proposed on… Read More: festival Text-To-Speech »
Instead of playing music through usual audio players, there is the possibility of using the mpd – a daemon which runs in the background and plays music. The great advantage is: You can choose between various interfaces and always control the same player with the same playlist(s) – even via TCP/IP from another PC or… Read More: Music Player Daemon »
I recently switched to using the zsh instead of bash. The reasons were those comfort functions of zsh, such as: So I installed the packages: zsh, zsh-doc and zsh-lovers. When starting it for the first time, you’ll encounter a configuration tool which asks several questions to make your zsh experience a good one. Bad thing… Read More: zsh »