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• Dec

  13

  2006

  Upload Manager (FTP Synchronization) for Linux

  I have been searching for an open source tool that will synchronize a remote FTP site with my local release directory for my web server code. FrontPage does this quite well under WindowsXP and I wanted a similar Linux capability. Nvu publishing capability is limited, with the documentation referring the reader to manual FTP programs. […]

  posted in SysAdmin by Bozzie

• Dec

  11

  2006

  Convert Filesystem from reiserFS to ext3

  With the 10.2 release, openSUSE announced a switch from reiserFS to ext3 as their default filesystem format. The reason given was that development work on reiserFS-3 has come to a halt and SuSE was the only Linux distribution championing it. This gave me a twinge of regret as I had dwelled on this decision when […]

  posted in opensuse, SUSE, SysAdmin by Bozzie

• Dec

  09

  2006

  Desktop Resolution Havoc

   Yesterday I replaced my failing 1600×1200 monitor with a 2048 capable monitor.  I expected X11/KDE to continue with a 1600×1200 desktop, but noooo.  The new monitor was detected and the desktop was auto-magically reconfigured to 2048×1536.  Fonts and icons were also scaled automatically.  When I switched the resolution back to 1600×1200, icons and fonts became […]

  posted in SysAdmin by Bozzie