How-To's

How To Network openSUSE 11.4 And Windows

March 31, 2011, 14:05(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I’ve posted a new article: How To Network openSUSE 11.4 And Windows

Android Phone On Your Home Network

November 25, 2010, 12:27(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

New article up: Android Phone On Your Home Network

Disk Partitioning

September 26, 2010, 10:15(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I get a lot of questions on disk partitioning, or more specifically, how I partition my disks. This post is meant to clarify any questions on the matter.
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Firefox 3: Getting rid of the drop-downs

September 6, 2008, 18:39(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Just a quick How-To. I can’t stand the drop down menu in the Firefox address bar. Here are the 2 keys to change the behavior.

Type: about:config in the address bar and navigate down to:

– To go back to the old style of drop down that only showed where you had already been:
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped change false to true by double-clicking on it.

– To change the number of items in the drop down: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults change to a number you want. 0=none (This looks like you’ve disabled the drop down but you really haven’t. I haven’t found an easy way to actually disable it.

Double-Bonus time:
I use Google as my home page and I hate the new “suggestions” in the search box. Want to get rid of it? Change your home page / bookmark / search page to this url:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0