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There is a problem with OpenOffice 2.0 bundled with Asus EEE PC. This version is not capable to open some extensions, which are important. You might want to upgrade OpenOffice.org to work on those extensions.
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This how-to describes the installation of Openoffice.org in an external device like a SD-card or a usb stick, without removing the original version of openoffice which comes in your eeepc. Or remove it anyway:)
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A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year.
March 2008Monthly Archives
links for 2008-03-29
links for 2008-03-23
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This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.
links for 2008-03-21
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MICROSOFT’S first update to the Windows Vista operating system could cause even more problems for some users. Look, they are CONSISTENT, at least.
links for 2008-03-20
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ne of my favourtie humourists and political commentators ever.
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The GIMP is usually installed as the graphics editing tool in Linux distributions. You might be looking for ways to use it – and as usual, Clair has many for you. Tutes, suggestions, links a gogo!!
links for 2008-03-19
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This article describes how to set up VMWare on a pre-existing Windows partition.
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Cnet has rated Firefox 3 as the best browser out of IE 8, Safari 3 and Opera 9.5, and gives special mention to Flock (my browser of choice in linux or windows).
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A surprising number of people — more than 60 percent — still suffer significant pain a year after a traumatic injury in a car crash or other cause, showing the need for better pain treatment, researchers said. As one of those affected – no kidding:(
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NSFW, possibly.
I am pretty openminded, but some of these confuse the hell out of me. A couple actively scare me. Especially that damned duck. And the cone STILL has the power to freak me out;) Seriously. -
The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:
* AJAX Programming
* Distributed Systems
* Web Security
* Language
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Facebook is set to launch a highly anticipated chat feature in the next 2 weeks to allow for real time communication within the popular social network.
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The term “planetary nebula” has always been a misnomer, but these spectacular clouds of dust and gas may actually have something to do with planets after all, astronomers have found.
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Of all the distros I’ve tried, Ubuntu is the fastest, most reliable, and (most of the time) most compatible.
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Terry Pratchett on his Alzheimerś diagnosis. Thank goodness we still have his remarkable mind coherent and functioning.
Machines take me by…
…surprise with great frequency.
Wow,cool!!! I never heard of this one – but very glad to include it in honour roll of computers:)
The CSIRAC Story
“The honour of building the first modern computer went to the British, when ‘Baby’ computed its first result on 21 June 1948, in Manchester.
During this period, a young English scientist in Sydney had already been planning the development of a machine to bring Australia into the computer age…”
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Any sufficiently advanced technology is…
…indistinguishable from magic.
Sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke dead
BRITISH-born science fiction guru, Arthur C. Clarke, died at a hospital in Sri Lanka overnight, his aide Rohan de Silva said. He was 90
His books were such a gift. I am typing this on Hal (I think he is up to Hal 3300, we upgrade so often:) )
Thank you, Arthur.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
links for 2008-03-18
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One thing you hear often about Linux is that there’s no software for it. This is simply not true. There may not be much proprietary software for it, but there is some, and there are plenty of free alternatives to what most offices use every day.
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Overall, Linux is not known as a resource hog. The free operating system is a fairly lean machine out of the box — some distributions moreso than others. Still, there are some tweaks you can make to any Linux installation to speed things up.
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A team of scientists and engineers led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will study how to design a telescope on the Moon for peering into the last unexplored epoch in the Universe’s history
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What does the surface of Saturn’s ice-spewing moon Enceladus look like? To help find out, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn was sent soaring past the cryovolcanic moon and even right through one of Enceladus’ ice plumes.
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A variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, it has now developed into one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market – with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package interface, number of versions
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once flock is ff3 based, i will be overjoyed:)
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works for hardy so far.
links for 2008-03-17
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some movies dismember Newton and Einstein with way more gusto than others. We rated 18 movies based on how many laws of physics they mangled, and here’s our report card.
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is a game created by Geoffrey Perkins and popularised by the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue (ISIHAC). According to the show, Mornington Crescent is one of the world’s top four most-played games, behind Chess, Scrabble, and Stump.
links for 2008-03-16
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oh dear. bet the au one sucks more.
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Here are seven of the dirtiest jobs in IT, and why your organization needs them.
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If the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, does harbor rocky planets similar to Earth as new findings suggest, there exist a host of ways to get us there, in theory.
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We tell people we use Linux because it’s secure. Or because it’s free, because it’s customizable, because it’s free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support. But we say that because they wouldn’t understand the real reason….
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Over the years, living in space has forced astronauts to make a few concessions to things you would not give a second thought about when staying at a Holiday Inn. Here are a fews things you may not have known about living in space.
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CDs are fine things for listening to and archiving, but they’re bulky. Think of all the shelf space you could free up if that digital music resided on one little hard drive rather than hundreds of boxed-up plastic discs.
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An amazing AJAX tool that allows you to see the code for google opensource projects as you go. well worth a look:)
