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Jan

openSUSE 11.1 & KDE 4.2 Release Party @ Bandung

a friend of mine Andi Sugandi, Indonesian openSUSE Community group leader for Bandung (West Java) area invited me to give a presentation about openSUSE 11.1 on their event as describe on the title of this post.

The event will be held at :

Location : Tobucil, Aceh 56, Bandung. Map.
Schedule Date : Sunday, February 01, 2009
Schedule Time : 15:30 (GMT+7)

It will be the third event of openSUSE 11.1 release party in Indonesia after the first one at Jakarta, the second later at Makassar-Sulawesi. We would also plan for the fourth event at Surabaya, East Java.

Thanks to Zonker who sent us 100 set of Promo DVD (sent to openSUSE member, Muhammad Edwin Zakaria aka Medwinz). Beside the promo DVD, We also preparing KDE Four Live, openSUSE 11.1 brochure and openSUSE 11.1 DVD repositories (a set of 6 DVD contains oss, non-oss and packman repositories) for offline update.

Never heard Bandung ? You may interesting to travelling to the beautiful city that also well known as Paris van Java .

Category: Linux, OpenSUSE Tags: OpenSUSE One Comment

Jan

Temporary Solved : Annoying Bug on Firefox 3 Right Click Menu

Vavai

bug-firefox Right click problem on Firefox 3 makes me crazy

I got annoying problem for context menu on Firefox 3 with openSUSE 11.1. The right click menu often accidentally open a random context menu. It may automatically opened current page in a new window, in a new tab, open the bookmark or favorites menu, open link properties and so on.

At first time, I think the problem occurred because I have a broken mouse, so I throw out the mouse and replace it with a new one. The problem still exist and I’m thinking something problem with my openSUSE.

After various Google search, I found out that the problem is Firefox bug. It wasn’t hit openSUSE only, because same annoying bug also hit Ubuntu. Take a look here, here and there.

Mozilla developer has been working on this issue and probably attach the fix on next release. Below is some workaround for temporary solving the problem :

Install mouse gestures add-on. I tried it and the crazy problem was gone.
Try to hold down right click before choose the appropriate menu
Disable right click and used the scroll menu
Remove Firefox 3 and installing Firefox 2 or another web browser . Opera is a good choice either…

The last workaround just for fun only. Don’t take it too serious

Note : Image credited to http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/firefox-bug.jpg

Category: Linux, OpenSUSE Tags: firefox, OpenSUSE 7 Comments

Jan

Solved : Error Upgrading VirtualBox 2.0.6 into 2.1.0

Vavai

I found an error “Inaccessible VirtualBox Image” after upgrading VirtualBox Virtual Machine on my friend’s PC with openSUSE 11.1 installed. The install process went successfully after removing previous version but I accidentally found this message while running old virtual machine created with VirtualBox 2.0.6 on new VirtualBox 2.1.0 :

Assertion failed: [!name.isNull()] at ‘/home/vbox/vbox-2.1.0/src/

VBox/Main/NetworkAdapterImpl.cpp’ (1068) in nsresult NetworkAdapter::loadSettings(const settings::Key&). Please contact the product vendor!. Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×80004005) Component: NetworkAdapter Interface: INetworkAdapter {a876d9b1-68d9-43b1-9c68-ddea0a473663}

After short investigation, it seems that the error occurred regarding Network Setup on virtual machine. Old virtual machine created with VirtualBox 2.0.6 using Host Network and with big modification on new version, the old Host Network setting was not fully compatible with new changes on VirtualBox 2.1.0.

The solution is quite simple :

Navigate to your virtual machine folder. In my case, the location is /home/vavai/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP
Backup the xml configuration file. In my case : WinXP.xml
Edit WinXP.xml

Remove the portion of configuration contains host network setup. If you confused which one should be deleted, simply remove network configuration. Below is my old VirtualBox configuration :

 <network>
        <adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027D4F0CA" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <hostInterface/>
        </adapter>
        <adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027F94465" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
        <adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800276589A9" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
        <adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002705BA8D" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
      </network>

Run VirtualBox. If it’s still inaccessible, refresh it and then run the virtual machine. VirtualBox will be clever enough to re-create the network setting. NOTE : If you remove all of network configuration on step 4, re-activating the network on virtual machine setting. `