Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Installing OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10
As some of you were expecting that Ubuntu 8.10 will be including OpenOffice.org 3.0, but as a matter of fact its still has OpenOffice 2.4.1. If you wish to upgrade to 3.0, check this out. You can still go and upgrade to OpenOffice 3.0. Read the instructions in this article.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex released
Ubuntu 8.10 just got released and here is a summary of What’s new: Guest Session: If your friend comes over and wants to use your laptop, you can give guest access which is completely locked down so the guest user can’t see or touch your data. Support for 3G data card. This becomes easy with […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Global Warming affects the Valley of Butterflies
The Valley of Butterflies is situated at Rhodes Island in Greece. A popular tourist attraction, which was once full of butterflies. Now its hard to find any butterflies there. And it not just global warming, its also because of increase in number of people visiting the place. I managed to spot one butterfly and a […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
OpenOffice 3 sets new download record
OpenOffice.org released OpenOffice 3.0 which reported 3 Million downloads in the first week itself! Way to go OO! What’s interesting is, 80 percent of the downloads were on Windows and price being the major driver since OpenOffice is both Free and free. Free as in Open Source and free as in free of cost too. […]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Improving Ubuntu update speed
My friend Arun Khan told about this great way to improve the download speed of packages and updates for Ubuntu users. Start Synpatic, go to Settings-Repositories. Under Ubuntu Software tab, there is “Download from:” and next to that it will say Main Server/Server for India/etc. Click on that and select other. Now on the right […]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Fastest photo backup solution
Hyperdrive has the fastest photo backup solution. Just remove the memory card from your camera, pop it in and it will copy your photos to the hard drive inside. In short its a portable hardrive with a built-in memory card reader. You can even view your photos on the LCD screen. Read more.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Open Source business model
The 451 Group has released a survey which says that Open Source is not a business model. As per the survey most of the companies doing open source have a hint of proprietary software. This is done to create a reason for customer to pay. Why would a customer pay if he/she is getting everything […]
