Now for a bit of an ironic story regarding SC2. Late last night I dual booted my system with Windows 7 Ultimate again due to the need for an embedded youtube video to work in an Office 2007 power point presentation (it failed to work under Crossover and youtube plays poorly in VMs, thus native install was my only option left).

The closet patent troll Larry Horn as well as Steve Jobs are still the loudest opponents of VP8 and they prove the need to abolish software patents and DRM too

Novell is still disabling users with so-called "clouds" rather than enabling them with software freedom

I’ve seen a few screenshots of ROX-desktop around the Internet, and for fun I decided to put it together myself.

Sell- Verb (used with object)- to persuade or induce (someone) to buy or use something That’s one of the many definitions of the word sell, it is also the definition which allowed me to use the word in this context.

A plotting tool is computer software which helps to analyze and visualize data, often of a scientific nature. Using this type of software, users can generate plots of functions, data and data fits. Software of this nature typically includes additional functionality, such as data analysis functions including curve fitting.

Here is a script takes an Opendocument template and fills it with data from a plain text file (which could be generated on the fly by querying a database or in many other ways), creating an OpenDocument invoice ready to be printed or sent via email.