Javier Llorente

Setting up a LG W2243S monitor

javier — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:56:54 +0000

Yesterday my old monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster 152v, suddenly died. So I bought a new one, the LG W2243S-PF. Once I took it out of the box and connected all the cables, I ran sax2 to have my new monitor detected (I didn’t log out from KDE/openSUSE or shutdown my computer). Everything was correctly detected except for the vertical sync frequency (it was set to 50-75 instead of 56-75 Hz). The correct values, as shown in the manual, are the following ones:

Horizontal: 30-83 KHz
Vertical 56-75 Hz

Now I have a much bigger screen resolution. I went from 1024×768 to1920x1080 (21.6″)

SUSE Studio article published

javier — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:11:01 +0000

Castellano
Acaban de publicar mi artículo de SUSE Studio en PC Actual.
“Adapta Linux a tus necesidades. Personaliza tu SUSE.”
Aquí está: página 1, página 2, página 3
Si quieres una invitación de SUSE Studio, envíame un mensaje con el asunto “SUSE Studio” a javier arroba opensuse punto org

English
PC Actual has just published my article on SUSE Studio.
“Adapt Linux to your needs. Customise your SUSE.”
Here it is (in castellano): page 1, page 2, page 3
If you want a SUSE Studio invite, send me a message to javier at opensuse dot org with “SUSE Studio” as the subject

At Night Wallpaper

javier — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:39:18 +0000

I didn’t know that my At Night Wallpaper had been included in KDE 4.3.1 until Rajko Matovic, fellow openSUSE member, told me that it was included in openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6. So I checked that and yes, it was there in desktop settings/appearance. After that, I checked what package provided it, and found out that it was included in kdeartwork4-weatherwallpapers. What a surprise!
BTW, I took that picture last summer in Colmenar Viejo, Castile (Spain). If you want to see other wallpapers made by me, visit my profile on KDE-Look.org

Hosting in Germany

javier — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:56:03 +0000

A few days ago, I was looking for a good hosting company that offered openSUSE. Shared hosting was too restrictive, a root server was too expensive and too powerful as well, so the right choice for me was a vps (virtual private server). And what I found were very good hosting offers in Germany.

ispOne Business – 4,90 €/mo, 14 GB HD, 256 MB RAM (guaranteed) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. A very good deal indeed but it’s only available for DE, AT and CH residents.

server4you.de – 8,85 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 384 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 768 MB) and 1500 GB/mo bandwidth. I have heard that their service can be very bad or just ok. They have an openSUSE mirror.

Strato – 9,90 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 384 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 1024 MB) and 3000 GB/mo bandwidth. Strato is a well known company in Europe, but this time you need to have a German bank account if you want to have a vps with them.

1&1 – 9,99 €/mo, 10 GB HD, 256 RAM MB (guaranteed, max 1024 MB) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. This a well known company as well, but not a very good deal. Again, it’s only available for DE and AT residents.

Host Europe – 12,99 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 256 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 768 MB) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. This company has a very good reputation from what I have read on sites like webhostlist (German) and Web Hosting Talk. Host Europe’s control panel and FAQs are in German but the technical support can be in English as well.

If you are looking for a real server, take a look at Hetzner, they offer quad core servers with 8 GB RAM, 2x 750 GB HD, 2000 GB/mo bandwidth and much more for just 49 €/mo.

In the end, I chose Host Europe. So far, so good. And they have an openSUSE mirror. Downloading updates/software is uberfast! If you choose Host Europe as well, please put my customer number (206414) in the KWK (Kunden werben Kunden) field when you sign up, so that I can get a discount. Danke Schön!

Hello world!

javier — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:46:30 +0000

Hello world! This is my first post.