GNU/Linux
Edit PDFs with OpenOffice
Image: Hybrid butterflies – http://tinyurl.com/65zl99 What fantastic news! OpenOffice will support read/write PDF files! Hybrid PDFs provide the best of both worlds: consistent display anywhere via its PDF component, and editability via its ODF component. “Most applications (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader) ignore the ODF bits and treat the whole hybrid file as a normal [...]
CompuTrace Clarifies Part Deux
I recently wrote about CompuTrace, revisiting the topic that it’s one vulnerability is that if you load GNU/Linux onto a CompuTrace laptop, you’re safe from being tracked with a stolen laptop. I share that because I notice that one of the most visited posts on my site results because of these search terms: how to [...]
Vista Rant
Source for the Shocking <gasp> Image Above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8OdwcdqVhw Whew! I must have shared CoolCat Teacher’s rant about MS Vista and how lousy it was several times with folks at work last week. The response I received was not unexpected…"Why do you think we’re waiting a year or two to adopt Vista? We’re sticking with XP [...]
UbuntuLinux support
It’s important to share the obstacles you encounter, as well as your failures. Perfection grants one’s fingers little purchase, but problems are great. This weekend, I had a bit of a frustrating time trying to load Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my daughter’s old Gateway laptop and Dell Dimension. It just wouldn’t go. What I wanted [...]
WINE Doors
(Be sure to get the latest version) In my travels to install software on the UbuntuLinux laptop, I ran across something I hadn’t seen before. The software is called WINE Doors. You can get it in this fashion: wget http://www.wine-doors.org/releases/wine-doors_0.1.2_all.deb and install it with this command sudo dpkg -i wine-doors*.deb It allows you to easily [...]