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This solved it for me: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-February/280087.html

Apparently it is hard to keep up with kernel developments. VMware has problems. Latest one does not work with openSUSE 11.2 kernel (and Ubuntu kernels, and other kernels). I guess that’s the difference between supporting enterprise versions (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, SLES, RHEL) and not the newer (not to say leading edge) distributions (Ubuntu > 8.04, [...]

something in my vmware server setup at home is malfunctioning – I cannot reliably get to the web interface. There used to be a command line interface, but they totally changed that between VM server 1.0 and 2.0…. … but it is there: so here, for my memory and your enlightenment, what I succeeded in [...]

Coming soon.

Next phone in line: Nokia’s latest “flagship” N97 touchscreen device. Verdict so far:

Since my N95 died (sniff), I’m trying out some other (Nokia) phones. First in line: N96. Verdict:

Using wordmobi. The pic has nothing to do with it. Posted by Wordmobi

Long story short:  I have a serious problem with my Dell Precision Workstation, which among other things has lead to 2 out of 3 disks being replaced. That will kill any RAID array

This is actually (apparently) not specific to my install: but bluetooth in KDE 3.5 is broken (note the condition here: it works on the command line, but not in KDE 3.5). I guess KDE 3 is “officially” orphaned – at least that’s what some of the (very useless) comments in the openSUSE forums/bug database imply. [...]

Tablet works: on my tablet, the digitizer is not at /dev/ttyS0, but at /dev/ttyS4. Changing that in Sax2 or /etc/X11/xorg.conf works The onscreen keyboard (xvkbd) does not seem to work. It reacts on the pen, but doesn’t do anything. Rotation doesn’t work out of the box. XRandR will flip the screen, but not rotate it [...]