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Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 3.0.1 Australian Spellchecking
I just removed all the standard Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 2.4.1 packages and installed Openoffice from Openoffice.org's download area by following the howto here. After going into Tools ==> Options ==> Language Settings ==> Languages and setting everything to English...
Subversion Working Copy Downgrade
If you jump from one distribution to another and then back to an older version one of the gotcha's can be that later versions on newer distro's can change your Subversion Working Copy repository data so it's unaccessible from the older distro. Case in point: On Ubuntu...
Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.2 FAIL. Return of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
OK so I attempted CentOS 5.2 as a desktop OS but it just doesn't cut it. You have to Google till you're cross eyed to get MP3/WMV support. Then when you enable the right YUM repositories you get cross repository conflicts that can't be resolved. Fooey. I also found...
Giving CentOS 5.2 a Whirl on the Desktop
OK so I've been using Ubuntu for about three releases but recently the quality of the Ubuntu builds has become an excercise in running into bugs that stop me getting my work done. e.g. tsclient renders X session unuseable when rdp'd into windows NetworkManager OpenVPN...
Using VBA/VBS to Create a Time from Seconds from Midnight number
I have a Progress DB field that stores a time stamp in seconds from midnight format (1-86400 seconds). I Googled and only seemed to dig up examples from other languages. This is my attempt in VBA/VBS Language. It seems to return the correct values. Function ct(stamp)...
Fedora 10 – Network Interface not coming up
I have a Fedora 10 VM that wasn't bringing it's network interface eth0 up on boot. Even though the settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 were correct. The problem: the network service wasn't enabled The fix: run ntsysv or setup ==> services from the...