Resolving fglrx issue initializing dri

Executive summary: newer versions of fglrx appear to rely upon ACPI support. Ensure you don’t have ACPI disabled at boot time.

On OpenSUSE 12.1 all attempts to make 3d accelartion with the ATI Proprietary drivers resulted in failure. This was particularly troublesome as I had used the same setup for years (with the same hardware). [...]

Address this!

This past week saw some news items regarding iOS applications that scan your address book. Lifehacker has a brief writeup on an app that alerts you when the scanning happens. Trouble is, as is pointed out in the comments, this is going to generate too many false positives. Connectedness, or social networking, is trumpeted every where. [...]

Todo: investigate App::GitGot

App::GitGot simplifies management of multiple git repositories. It provides simply status reports and update management. It’s goal is to support multiple repo types but only supports git at the moment.

Why You Should Disable the Popup Login Box

Long, long ago, there was only one way to authenticate users on a website: HTTP Basic Authentication (oh sure, there was later Digest Authentication, but few people used it). And then Cookies were invented, and the web was yummy. Only it wasn’t, because cookies had privacy concerns along for the ride; and still do. But, cookie-based [...]

openSUSE equivalent of rc.local

On Red Hat systems (and possibly others) custom services and commands a user may want executed after other services in the runlevel have started may be added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (more information in the RHEL Reference Guide; order of calling is given here).

What is the equivalent on an openSUSE system?

This is what I [...]