Alternative Find and Replace for Writer (AltSearch) has the ambitious goal of replacing and enhancing one of the most basic pieces of OpenOffice.org functionality. It's undermined by a chaotic interface, but if you have the patience to continue past first impressions, you will find AltSearch comes far closer to fulfilling its promise than you might initially imagine.
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Evolution, Linux, and Gentoo
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I'll start at the end by telling you that I'll finish this with a discussion of my “Distro of Choice”, Gentoo. But before we get there . . . It royally annoys me when people say that Linux is too hard to learn!
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Tux enters into Jet Airways entertainment systems
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Flew from Mumbai (BOM) to Chennai (MAA) on 9W469 Jet Airways today. The Air hostess reset the in flight entertainment system and lo and behold...Tux!
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Apache2: Logging To A MySQL Database With mod_log_sql (Debian Etch)
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This guide shows how you can write the Apache2 access log to a MySQL database instead of a file. To achieve this, I use the Apache2 module mod_log_sql. I'm using a Debian Etch server in this tutorial.
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Developing for Linux netbooks
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Most all readers will be well aware of the ASUS Eee Linux PC. Other vendors now seek to achieve similar success, the latest being Acer’s Linpus device. Yet, a common complaint is that traditional software doesn’t necessarily translate well to the smaller screens. Here’s my tips for developing software for the emerging and widely popular netbook market.
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Ten tips for securing Linux desktops
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Out of the box, a Linux desktop is far more secure than most others. However, this level of security is not necessarily attained through typical security-focused software or techniques. Sometimes, the easiest means to security are those that are the easiest to forget.
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Securing your Ubuntu box, don’t worry it’s easy!
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Linux is generally regarded as secure, but as preachy as Ubuntu gets about not using a root terminal, you’d think that they must ship this really secure operating system, right? Well… yes and no.
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Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu and the Linux Desktop
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He is, without a doubt, the only open source software leader who might be called “dashing.” Young (34), fabulously rich (north of $500 million as of 1999) Mark Shuttleworth buzzes around on his own private jet, the Canonical One. Raised in South Africa, in 2002 he launched the First African in Space mission, training as a cosmonaut and hitching a ride aboard a Russian spaceship.
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The Linux Saga: Preface
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This story begins – as usual – long long time ago, far far away, behind the Ocean, in United States of America, in Bell Laboratories building. In that firm a computer stood. Nothing special about it, but in 1969, when those events started, computer wasn’t commonplace at all.
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Double Spacing In Awk, Perl and Shell on Linux and Unix
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A small tutorial on how to use awk, Perl and the shell to double space between lines. Hopefully this answers all requests for additional material :)
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KDE4 KWin has new Cube plugin!
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Google is doing WHAT?
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ts motto is 'Don't do evil' -- but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game
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Bad blood over Linspire's sale to Xandros
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Linspire's former CEO, Kevin Carmony, isn't holding back in his criticism of the sale.
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Former HP open-source exec hired by GNOME Foundation
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In an announcement Monday at its user conference in Istanbul, Turkey, the foundation named Stormy Peters, who co-founded the foundation and formerly managed the open source program at Hewlett-Packard, to be the group's new executive director.
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10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
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10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Developers Wary Of iPhoneDevelopers of location-based services should be clamoring to make applications for Apple's 3G iPhone, which features built-in global positioning system technology--but they're not.
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