Brasero cannot detect drive: No available medium

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I’ve experience a problem with Brasero. After a fresh intall of OpenSUSE 11.1, I tried to burn an ISO using Brasero, I had no problem with it on my previous install or so I think. When I try to burn, it couldn’t detect my DVD drive: “No available medium” but the DVD disc are properly placed inside the tray. Anyway I’ll be post here the quick fix I did to get it working:

Here’s it is:

  1. Open YaST
  2. Go to ‘Security and Users‘
  3. Click ‘User and Group Management‘
  4. Edit your profile
  5. Go to ‘Details‘ tab
  6. Then on the ‘Additional Groups‘, check the ‘cdrom‘
  7. Click ‘Ok‘ to save setting

Now open Brasero and start burning!

Note: If Brasero still can’t detect your DVD drive, restart your system this would fix it.

How to remove “Online Help” and “openSUSE” icon on OpenSUSE 11.1

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After the installation, The first thing I do is to remove those icons because first, I don’t use it and second, I like my desktop clean.

Here’s how you can remove the “Online Help” and “openSUSE” icon on Gnome desktop:

As root, change directory to ‘/usr/share/dist/desktop-files/’ then delete or move this files:

  • GnomeOnlineHelp.desktop
  • SuSE.desktop

Remove

rawswift:/ # cd /usr/share/dist/desktop-files/
rawswift:/usr/share/dist/desktop-files # rm *

Move

rawswift:/ # cd /usr/share/dist/desktop-files/
rawswift:/usr/share/dist/desktop-files # mv * /to/backup/folder/.

After you remove or move it, notice that the two icons will automatically disappear on the desktop (must be a daemon, run by Nautilus Greeter Application, ‘ggreeter’).

I hope this helps!

Update!

I just found out about this! While I was removing applications on session startup, I’ve noticed an entry named ‘SUSE’ that run an application called ‘ggreeter’. I’m not really sure if removing it will disable those icons, anyway I continue on and disable that entry. The name just gave me a hint and so far I haven’t encountered any problem. Here’s how to disable it:

  1. Open the ‘Control Center‘
  2. Click ‘Sessions‘ under ‘System‘ category
  3. On ‘Startup Programs‘, uncheck ‘SUSE‘
  4. Then click ‘Close‘ button

What ‘SUSE’ does is run ‘ggreeter –once’ on startup, must be a daemon.

Freshly installed OpenSUSE 11.1

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Freshly installed OpenSUSE 11.1

Freshly installed OpenSUSE 11.1

I’d upgraded my office workstation’s OS from OpenSUSE 10.3 to 11.1. Been waiting for a chance to install this new version, since it’s public release (December 2008).  I’ve been using OpenSUSE as my primary OS for web development at the office and run Windows XP in VirtualBox. After years of trying out different Linux distribution and BSDs. I’ve never seen anything quite like OpenSUSE. So! for years I’ve been stickin with it and I think I’ll never let go.

Still stuck with Windows? Go get OpenSUSE!

Custom WordPress theme

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Custom WordPress Default

Custom WordPress Default

For the past couple of days, I’ve been working on a custom WordPress theme for this blog site. And it was a pleasant experience. I had a lot of fun customizing layouts, templates and hacking plugins.

Here are the tools and plugins that I’ve used for this theme:

•    Google XML Sitemaps – XML sitemap generator
•    Twitter Tools – Twitter API
•    Add-Meta-Tags – Metas for page optimization
•    Akismet – Spam protection
•    JQuery – AJAX and simple animation

…and a whole lot of imagination and creativity.

Happy 2009

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Legazpi's sky

Happy new year everyone! 2008 was a great year for me. Hope it is also to you and I know 2009 will be much greater. Looking forward to new adventures and challenges. Bring it on 2009!

Had a few booze with my friends before the 12am countdown. I was packed with assorted firecrackers to welcome the new year with a big bang and it was a blast!

Happy new year!

Cheapo wireless router

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Wi-Fi router

Wi-Fi router

Yesterday, I bought a really cheap wireless router from CDR-KING. It’s a bundled pack, a generic wireless router plus a wireless USB LAN dongle. Installation was very easy, I just plug my broadband ethernet cable and my PC on the router and it worked perfectly. The router’s configuration was a breeze, I use a WPA2 encryption and a pre-shared key to protect access to my Wi-Fi and home network, I’d also set the router’s password to secure admin page. Now I’ll be able to use my laptop anywhere at home.

Note: I’m not in any way affiliated with or promoting the said products or services and I do recommend buying high quality product or branded routers like Cisco’s Linksys or D-Link. I was on a tight budget so I go for the cheap one for now but I was pretty satisfied with my choice.

Happy holidays!

Recently activated Google App Engine account

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Google App Engine

I’ve been on hiatus for a couple of days. I had an early holiday vacation. And when I finally check my emails today and skimming through a lot of spam, I saw that I receive a mail invitation from Google App Engine, saying my account has been activated and I can start creating my application. I was surprised and got me thinking, when the hell did I request for a Google App Engine account? I paused for a moment then said to myself, what the heck! I’ll just jump in and start creating an application. I click the link provided by Google and sign in using my Google account. Then when I saw the “Create an Application” button, I was reluctant to click it, so I stop and think of what application I’ll write but couldn’t think of anything. So I decided to take a time to read the documentation and how to get started. I’m excited to start an application using Google App Engine, imagine your application can use Google infrastructure. Sweet!

Metallica’s The Day That Never Comes premiered today!

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Metallica

Metallica’s new single “The day that never comes” has premiered today 11am PDT.

The song sounds like Unforgiven, I could hear a little bit of Load in it (must be James voice) and a whole lot of One with a downbeat track on the start and then sheer metal at the end. I think it will not be as successful as compared to their previous releases like Fade to Black, Sanitarium, One, and Unforvigen. But it sounds better than St. Anger. And the solo! Kirk is definitely back!

We’ll have to wait for September 12 for the rest of their songs.

September 12: Death is Coming

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Death Magnetic

It’s official folks! September 12 is metallica’s release of Death Magnetic, their 9th studio album. Since 2006 they’ve been teasing us with new songs and short excerpts. And finally the wait is coming to an end. So! Mark it on your calendar boys and girls, its a date you’d definitely don’t wanna miss.

Check out the complete track listing of the album. Their first single will be “The Day That Never Comes” which will be premiered Thursday, August 21 at 11 AM PDT. So tune in to Mission Metallica or on Metallica’s Official website.

Recently, Metallica debuted a new song called Cyanide during Ozzfest.

Visit the band’s official website for a little taste of death. A frequently updated page of short track excerpts from the upcoming album. Notice that Track #2 is a clean intro version of The New Song.

What I’m expecting and hoping to be included in the album is the song Holy revolver, Shine or whatever they call it. Cause that song is sick! It reminds me of the garage days album.