I have had a Dell Latitude D800 for over a year now and recently had the dreaded "Drifting Mouse" problem as discussed in the Dell Support Forum.

Fortunately, I also came across a linux solution which talks about disabling the "Stick Pointer" using the "Synaptics Driver" which comes default with FC4.

Here is the gist of it which worked for me:

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This seems to occur if mysql crashes for some reason and corrupts the sessions table for Drupal.

Here is a quick way to resolve this and I have used it in the past...

mysql> REPAIR TABLE sessions QUICK;

You can also use phpmyadmin to repair the table.

Related Reading: MySQL Database Repair

]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/187.html Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:55:28 GMT http://linuxweblog.com/node/329

If you use bash as the default shell, it keeps a history of commands accessed via the `history` command for convenience. This could end up being a security problem if someone were able to compromise a users' home directory. In some cases, this could expose improperly used passwords or special privileges available to the user such as sudo.

Consider disabling this by changing the attribute of the file to lock out the ability to update the file. As root:

# cat /dev/null > ~user/.bash_history


# chattr +i ~user/.bash_history

The user will still have a command line history, but it will only apply to the current session. When the user logs out, the information will not be saved. To have this apply to all future users, make the changes in the "/etc/skel" directory.

]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/39.html Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:51:47 GMT blog page) !!]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/37.html Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:58:55 GMT All you have to do is upload some MP3s to your file repository and mark them public. Your main RSS feed will automatically work as a podcast feed which contains the files in the order you uploaded them.

 Also, if you include the mp3 file in your blog, it can be played directly using the embeded flash player. See Sample.

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• Upload a new header image into your file repository. Make sure the image has the following dimensions: width='769px' and height='200px'
  
• Once uploaded click on it and copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
  
• Now you want to go to 'Account Settings' then select 'change theme'.
  
• Where it says 'Create Theme' put in a name that you want to call your new theme and create it based upon the "myktm" theme (using the drop down menu).
  
• Now you will see your theme listed - select 'edit'.
  
• When the edit page opens up you will see the theme's CSS - find the section which says:
  

  
  #header { background: url(/_templates/northern/totems_2.jpg); width: 769px; height: 180px; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: right; }
  

  
  
• Now you want to replace the url portion (between the brackets) with the URL you copied in step two.
  
• Click save and you are done.
  
• Select your personal theme as your current theme.
  

]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/26.html Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:31:17 GMT Baby Swati]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/16.html Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:09 GMT ]]> http://connect.myktm.com/sandip/weblog/42.html Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:23:29 GMT http://linuxweblog.com/node/315

If you notice OpenOffice taking a while to start-up even with a 1GB memory for your desktop machine, then you are not alone. This is because by default the application only uses 9MB of the RAM for it's graphic cache. To increase the Graphic Cache, go to "Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Memory" and increase the "Graphics Cache" from 9M to about 128MB (Adjust this accordingly depending on your usage and available RAM). Restart OpenOffice and you will notice that the latency has now dissapeared...

While you are at it, the Memory per object setting allocates memory for each object. The default is 2.4 MB which may need to be increased if you are working with high quality images or decreased if you are not really using images and you need to save on memory resources.

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