Easy PDF editing is coming to OpenOffice.org, but you'll have to be patient for a few months. Recently posted to the OpenOffice.org Extensions site, the Sun PDF Import extension (SPI) is only in beta, and only works with recent developer builds of OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is scheduled for September release.
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Quickly Creating LaTeX Tables in Emacs
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"...Thankfully Emacs has the table mode as part of the standard distribution. Invoke table-mode as M-x table-insert and create the table. Answer the wizard questions and enter the data for the columns. Once you've written the data into the table, generate the LaTeX table by hitting C-^ and choosing the export format as latex..."
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Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft
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First Asus , then Dell, then MSI , Elonex, the Cloud and all their clones. Now Acer has entered the fray and it is all, at least initially, good news. It looks like they've all found a bit of Dutch courage and started to turn on the schoolyard bully from Redmond.
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Essential Emacs tips
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"These are some of the Emacs features I use the most on a day to day basis. (Not coincidentally, many of these features are the features that are highlighted or discussed at great length in the Guided Tour of Emacs.)..."
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EU holds firm on "open standard", US firms go ballistic
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The EU Commission announced on June 25 that EIF/2.0 (The European Interoperability Framework which defines the rules for software used in e-Government) will hold the line as regards patents on standards.
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Windows Hater (in response to Linux Hater)
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So I’ve become a huge fan of Linux Haters blog because he makes some very valid points about Linux and the open source community in general and it got me thinking of why I moved from Windows to Linux in the first place.
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Top of the charts: five open source file sharing apps
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Why are open source file sharing applications so popular? The answer to that question may be obvious to some, but the explosion in paid-for, online digital content services in recent years hasn't dented the download rates of free file sharing applications.
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How To Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps
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Ubuntu's consumer-friendly features have made it the Linux distribution of choice for a growing number of IT vendors. Here's a quick-start visual tutorial.
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GUIDE: Using Linux to Beat Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling
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For those savvy enough to have switched over to Linux, this step-by-step guide will prove once again that Linux really does offer users almost complete control over their OS.
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Kaffeine 0.8.6 Review
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When it comes to video players, Kaffeine is my favourite, several reasons for it being that it plays anything I feed it with, it has good subtitle support and the interface it provides is clean and simple to use.
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gOS and Sylvania's g netbook series
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Today we’re announcing on our blog that we’ve launched a new 7” netbook with Sylvania, one of the most trusted consumer brands in the world…
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KDE vs. GNOME: A Screed from a Supposed Corporate Flack
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I realized long ago that when it comes to the corporations out there, KDE loses out to GNOME, it’s just a fact, we demo and demo and they choose the one they want.
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Nut launches death threats at Debian women
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Exclusive: Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software.
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Fear and Loathing in Digital Cornerstone Incorporated, Formerly Known as Linspire
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Linspire infighting and arguments over secrecy; lessons to be learned.
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Update: Report says Microsoft readying new try for Yahoo
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Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo search and is seeking partners, including Time Warner and News Corp., to take over the rest of Yahoo's business
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