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On Notebooks
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Cool tips for your notebook
1. Mounting USB Flash Drives: Every notebook user might want to use a USB flash memory storage, to transfer his important files. This just needs a single command. But before that check on which device your pen drive is connected to. For this plug in your USB pen drive to a free USB port on your notebook and go to the Application menu and scroll down to the 'System Tools' sub menu. Then select the Hardware Browser option. A dialogue box will open, select the 'USB devices' and it will show you which device has been allotted to your drive. It will be like, /dev/sdax. To mount the device create a folder, say /mnt/usb and run the following command
#mount /dev/sdax /mnt/usb
and the content of your drive will be available in /mnt/usb folder
2. Battery Meter: Another important thing that a notebook user will need is a battery monitor to tell the status of his battery. To use this, just start a service called acpid as follows:
#/etc/init.d/acpid start
At the bottom panel of GNOME, right click and add the applet called 'Battery Charge Monitor' and you'll see a small icon indicating your battery status.
3. Ticker: Oh you are a notebook user and need live news feeds and stock quotes on the move. Then you can use the kNewsticker and the Stock Ticker applet. You can run Knewsticker from the Application > Internet > KnewsTicker option and can add the stock ticker Applet by right clicking on the gnome panel and clicking on the "Add New Applet" Option.
NOTE: All software discussed in this article are pre-installed in the PCQLinux 2005 'Personal Desktop' Installation
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