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The QuickCam c500 is supported out of the box in Debian Squeeze by the UVC driver. However, one issue I have encountered is the built in microphone is auto detected by alas and overrides my sound card, forcing me to issue the command (as root):

alsa force-reload

to solve this problem edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf and add:

options snd_usb_audio index=1

Reboot and hopefully all is well.

there are a few things that bug me about Windows 7, and one of them is that it no longer is obvious how to show my file extensions. I hate how the default on windows installs has been to hide file extensions. I like to know what it is I am looking at. Is it an executable, is it ogg or mp3, maybe avi or mpeg? Before I simply would change my preferences from the tool bar. Whell the simple tool bar I have become so accustome to is no longer the same. So, what to do?

Open Windows Explorer and click Organize at the top left and then select Folder Options. Now go to the View tab and there it is, looking much like it did in Windows XP. For whatever reason this was not readily evident to me and it might not be for others.

In the past I have described how to make Dropbox work with Thunar for XFCE users, now I am going to see If I can achieve the same goal for KDE. Dropbox is a great utility which remotely stores documents and other files, and can sync them across multiple computers over the Internet. what I did was to follow the instructions provided by Dread Knight. Afterwards, I figured out that this method could be used for any Linux desktop environment or windows manager and is preferable to the Thunar method mentioned above. If you need, create a Dropbox account here

Upon a fresh install of KDE on Debian Squeeze I found that all of my readings where in metric units and 24 hour unites. Which is fine, however I am a lazy American who likes things in the obscure and outdated imperial units and despite my time in the military, I prefer my clock in 12 hour time.

In the System Settings go to Regional & Language under the Locale I add US English. Under Time & Date I change Time format: to pH:MM:SS AMPM. Then I hope over to the Other tab and set Measure system: to Imperial.

Restart KDE.

If you want to redirect a page with PHP simple create a blank PHP file (example.php) and only include the following line:

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.example.com/new_page.html’ ) ;
?>

If you want to redirect an entire directory simply name this file index.php

NOTE: If you want a permanent redirect because you have moved your website and wish to keep your linkbacks from google and other search-engines and sites, follow the directions here.