The solution is to go into the Properties of each connection (right click on it) –> select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) –> click Properties -> click Advanced –> uncheck Automatic metric in the bottom and set a number between 1 and 9999 where the smaller the number the higher the connection priority. I have set my Wireless Internet connection to 1 and my LAN connection to 9999 and that works.

I hope this post will save someone else’s precious time in the future.

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   Object doesn't support this property or method @ 2173:1

The fix for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 by Microsoft can be found here:

KB958502 – JScript Editor support for “-vsdoc.js” IntelliSense doc. files

• No page breaks.
• Wrong Frame size and placement, including caption
• Wrong image size and placement, including caption
• Extra spacing for Headings surrounded by borders
• Merge with next paragraphs ignored
• No embedded drawings/speardsheets.
• Table content placement not preserved.
• More quirks

I suppose for people who work with simple text documents the support for OpenDocument might be sufficient though. I for one am not going to rely on the ability to safely open my work documents with Word 2007 or such produced by Word 2007 in OpenOffice.

Who is to blame? Is OpenOffice not following the OpenDocument standard well or is it Word 2007 interpreting it badly? Gotta love standards! I am looking forward to see both office suits interoperating nicely together some day.

The test documents:

• Original OpenDocument Report ODT
• Original OpenDocument Report PDF
  
• Report Opened in Word 2007
• Report Re-Saved in Word 2007 and opened in OpenOffice

Some screenshots:

The right-click menu of a DVD

DVD Burning

Edit as root /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.policy and change

<action id="org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.removable-block">
  <description>Directly access removable block devices</description>
  <message>System policy prevents access to removable block devices</message>
  <defaults>
    <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
    <allow_active>no</allow_active>
  </defaults>
</action>

to

<action id="org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.removable-block">
  <description>Directly access removable block devices</description>
  <message>System policy prevents access to removable block devices</message>
  <defaults>
    <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
    <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  </defaults>
</action>

Restart.

Skype

Delete/move as root the file /etc/asound-pulse.conf and reboot.

wvdial

A neat workaround is described here.

VirtualBox USB

1. Uninstall the VirtualBox packages openSUSE provides in its repositories

2. Download and install the openSUSE RPM of the non-OSE edition (full edition, but not fully open source) from http://virtualbox.org

3. Add to /etc/fstab :

/sys/bus/usb/drivers /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1000,devmode=664 0 0

4. Add to /etc/init.d/boot.local :

mount -a

Reboot.

Dropbox

Create a ~/.xinitrc file with the following content:

xhost local:root
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

X Annoying Beep

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf change

Option       "ZapWarning" "on"

to

Option       "ZapWarning" "off"

tty Annoying Beep

Create an ~/.inputrc file with the following content:

set bell-style none

Out of the box broken are:

• DVD burning
• GNOME session saving
• wvdial, so I can’t use my phone as a 3G/data modem.
• Dropbox, which seems to be working fine in every other distribution released recently. Also was working fine in 11.0.
• VirtualBox USB
• Skype (yes, I do use it every now and than to talk to my friends/parents)

Other new annoyances in 11.1:

• When restarting X there is an insanely loud and painful for the ears 1-2 second beep/buzz.
• There is the same beep/buzz in tty when you perform various actions

Pretty bad for me. I have nothing more to say, ciao.

P.S: I am aware that there are workarounds for most of those issues.