OpenOffice.org, while often criticised for its slightly antiquated interface, is arguably the most popular free software and open source office suite and in many cases, a good alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous software system.
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Ridiculous Resumes - Unix, Linux and everything in between
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This week, we're picking on the employees instead of the employers :)
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Making The Switch To Linux - Keep In Mind … (10 Ubuntu Tips)
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I’ve moved my desktop at home from a Windows XP to a Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 - and soon the new Intrepid Ibex), and have had to google a bit to find the answers to my following “problems”.
Here are some of the issues I experienced, and some possible solutions (and as usual, there are several different solutions to each problem).
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Watching WMV Vidoes with Gstreamer ffmpeg Codec Plugin
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Last week, I received an email from a friend, his company Floating weeds has produced their debut film. I rushed to watch the film online and guess what the film was in WMV video format. The standard Ubuntu doesn't ship with proprietary codecs like WMV, you can still watch such videos with just few mouse clicks.
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Download Pidgin 2.5.2 for Ubuntu Linux (deb package)
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Even though the new version of Pidgin (2.5.2) does not appear on http://pidgin.im/, it seems it was released, as you can see here.
Changes:
version 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
libpurple:
* Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
* Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
Adult Content Warning - Beware The Computer Guy!
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Be careful what you do on your work computer - The security admin will get you :)
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The 10 Best Linux Distributions
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I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference. Ease of installation, commercial support, community support, updates, administrative tools, stability, performance, and to a lesser extent--their ranking on DistroWatch.com.
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Linux/Unix Want Ads - Humor That's Sad But True
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At least I'm not the only person being paid beans to manage myself and the 5 departments I performs all essential functions in ;)
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Three Cool 3D Car Racing Games for Linux
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My 3 year old son is addicted to race cars, so I decided to look for some 3D racing games that can be played natively under Linux.
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Saving to a Microsoft Word Format
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Often in order to interface with other offices or friends you will need to save your document in the format they can read with their system. Chose a File Type which corresponds to the document type you need. In this example the file is saved as a Microsoft Word document.
The Automatic file name extension will place the proper file extension to be read by the other program.
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Merge Pst File
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Merge Pst File software allow to merge unlimited PST files to one
single PST file.Software successfully merge all items of multiple PST file
such as contacts, calendars, journals, tasks, email folders to one single PST
file using Pst Merge software Tool.
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Gnome Notification Area Applet
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Notification Area applet is a nifty tool that lets you keep an eye on application activity of your Gnome desktop. Quite often new users tend to accidental it in the applet adding and removing frenzy that we all succumb to one time or other.
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Bash Script To Get You Your Daily Farmer's Almanac Information
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Interesting facts, questions and puzzles for every day of the year!
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Running Ubuntu on Vista with Virtual Box
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I've been getting requests on how to dual boot Vista and Linux or requests to install Linux on someones recently purchased computer. If the goal is to try out Linux or a few of the many Linux distributions, then I suggest running Linux virtually. That way one can a) decide which distribution they prefer, and b) decide of Linux will be their primary operating system.
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Humorous Fake Linux News - Metallica Revisited
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Keep up to date on the latest funny stuff that may or may not have happened :)
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