I can honestly say that I would have never guessed that a website in Indonesia would have ever linked to one of my posts. I have google analytics running on my website and noticed a hugh spike in hits for Indonesia (watch out german, your about to bumped to third if the hits keep coming). So in an attempt to figure out what was going on I track it back to an OpenSuSE Indonesian website. I thought this was pretty cool. I also noticed that on their blogroll list was my friend Scott’s website OpenSuSE Linux Rants. I’ll have to let him know about this, unless he reads planetsuse.org or openclue.org (Utah Open Source Bloggers). Anyways, time to head to bed and see if my head is going to fit through the door. 
Archive for January, 2008
Indonesia and Small world
January 7th, 2008OpenSuSE 11 Alpha 0 Screenshots
January 6th, 2008Ok. Sorry it took so long to get these out. Hopefully it won’t take this long for alpha 1. I really only have screenshots for the install of the gnome cd since for one reason or another the display stuff wasn’t working very well with vmware. So, without too much talking here are the screenshots.
The first one is the License Agreement (Proof of version)
Next is the Install Mode. A little change here, but that’s about it.
Nothing really new here, but the Install Settings.
The list of patterns on the gnome CD Software Selection.
In the Expert Partitioner I noticed something different. I don’t know if I just have never noticed this before it or not, but its pretty cool anyways.
Installing the packages – Package Installation.
I’ve skipped a few screens at this point. Mainly because it didn’t seem like anything had changed.
Up next are a couple from user authentication. The various User Auth Method. And since I have a PDC provided by samba I decided to try and join the domain during the install. Windows Domain Membership. This didn’t seem to go over so well. I’m can’t remember why, but this has worked in the past. Not usually the option I took other than for curiosity sake.
Now for the proof of my X problems under vmware - VMWare Display Problem. Maybe better luck next time.
There are a few things that I wish they would change. The biggest would be a new installer. I think its more out of “the old one is old and boring now”
Though there is a section on opensuse.org called Pimp My Installer that has a cool mockup. So, if you feel like a new install is in order. Get your ideas on that page. If their not heard, their useless.
Bandwidth Upgrade
January 4th, 2008The other day I had my bandwidth upgraded. I started out with 15/15 mbit speeds and well they handled everything I needed it to. But the nerd/geek in me didn’t feel this way. My awesome and amazing ISP Xmission started offering highly speeds as if 15/15 mb wasn’t enough. As is I’m paying $50 a month. $40 for the connection and $10 for a subnet of 16 public IP addresses. Yeah the ip address are more because I can than anything else (I do use enough to not move back to a subnet of 8). So, back to my bandwidth. I’m now paying an extra $10 now $60 a month. My new bandwidth is 50/50 mb. For those that don’t believe I have a picture.
