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Contents 1 What I find interesting 2 How I set up my computer 3 What I always wanted to say 4 What I always wanted to know 5 What I always wanted to do 6 What I never could do

What I find interesting

• Firewall
• Record your deskTop
• Ekiga
• FreeMind
• Pingus
• Distribution_specific_tips_and_tricks
• Netapplet
• network sWitch
• hacker

How I set up my computer

I use the latest version of SUSE. I do the following changes for my personal convenience:

• Forward X11 (see http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_SSH#Forwarding_X11)
• remove bouncing cursor (kcontrol->Appearance & Themes->Launch Feedback->Busy Cursor|No Busy Cursor)
• add device icons to the desktop (kcontrol->desktop->behavior->device icons->show device icons)
• remove spell checking from kmail
• kcontrol: remove %U from the application command for the file association from .doc

What I always wanted to say

I log in as root. Yes, really. Everyone was warning me so intensely when I started with Linux in 2000, I decided I just had to try. Now, after 5 years, I have never regret it. It is just more easy to live without a split personality. I still do not see one single reason to change this. I check that

• /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc does not contain AllowRootLogin=false.
• For KDE 4: /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc must not contain AllowRootLogin=false.
• With Ubuntu and gnome, it is /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, AllowRoot. Now I can access /root on my bootable USB disk!

What I always wanted to know

• how do I find out if I am using OSS or alsA?
• how do I find out if I have 3D acceleration?

To check if 3D hardware acceleration is working for openGL, you can use the following command:
glxinfo | grep rendering

• how do I find out how many heap and stack memory is consumed by a specific application?
• how do I set up TeamSpeak?

What I always wanted to do

The following articles have made my life easier. Or the topics have just fascinated me:

• Booting from USB
• WLAN
• Configuring_keyboards#Enabling_Keyboard_Multimedia_Keys
• festival (make your computer speak)
• LiVES (video editing)
• VPN
• xdmcp ("terminal server")
• blueTooth
• PXE
• UserModeLinux
• CamCorder (connecting to Linux)
• GrayListing
• High-AvailAbility Clusters
• auToMount
• iScsi
• softWare RAID
• GPG
• Terminal Server
• Teaming NetWork Cards
• Wake on lan
• NtFS
• RAMdisk
• NX
• blueTooth
• umTs

What I never could do

• ekigA
• mythTv