Linux

Acrobat starts always with ~ as the working directory. Because I keep all my pdf files in a seperate directory, I have to do quite some navigation before I can save them. This is especially bad as the Acrobat save as window displays all files including hidden files. Thus I would like Acrobat to use always ~/Documents/pdf as working directory. The .desktop file specification defines for Type=Application the entry Path= which is supposed to define the working directory.

I bought the boxed version of Suse Linux 9.1. The update went quite smoothly. Although it reported about 1500 package conflicts, they were all just consequences of kopete 0.81 (my icq client) and vlc 0.71 (my video player). I resolved the conflicts by first unprotecting the non-Suse packages that I had installed and then risking system inconsistencies. However, after the update both kopete and vlc still functioned. On the other hand VMWare 4.0.5 broke but updating to 4.5.1 helped.

In order to copy the file index.html from the local machine to vesuri.helsinki.fi the following command is needed:

scp -p /Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html jeltsch@vesuri.helsinki.fi:./public_html/index.html

The p flag preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. The full path of the original file (/Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html) is of course not needed if the file is in the current directory.