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Ten years ago, a tiny software community launched, for free, Microsoft-like programs for those with UNIX or Linux computer operating systems. A few months ago, this software community—known as KDE—rolled out its first free Office-style software for Windows users.
ALTIt’s a competitive first for KDE, and indicative of an industry shift. The shift is toward software [...]
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Office,
Software
AbiWord is a free opensource word processing program like Microsoft Word or Openoffice. Abiword is a light weight multi-platform word processor and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.
Some of the features apart [...]
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Office
Last week we were introduced to the excellent Citadel BBS groupware and messaging server. In my needlessly humble opinion, Citadel is a great choice for the majority of users who need a groupware and messaging server. It’s easy to fling up a working server in a few minutes for a small home network, and it [...]
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Other
In my job as a systems engineer, I have handled various storage implementations for our enterprise clients. These may be in the form of direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) systems. In these implementations, clients generally use proprietary storage products from vendors such as [...]
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Linux,
Office
When most people think of switching out their office to one Linux distribution or another, the very idea of getting started with the needed migration must seem completely overwhelming. Not because using Linux is difficult — rather, the task at hand with getting personnel and equipment up to the challenge is daunting.
To respond to this [...]
SMILE, Slideshow Maker In Linux Environnement is a free opensource slideshow creating tool for GNU/Linux, although it also works on Mac OS/X. SMILE helps to create video slideshows from images, that can be played on almost all medias. The numerous features and the simplicity of use make it possible to create dynamic and rich slideshows [...]
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Office,
openSuse
Converting a PDF file into an HTML or a XML file has been made easy by a small useful utility called PDFTOHTML. PdftoHTml is a Xpdf based tool which can convert PDF files to HTML or XML format. PDFTOHTML also supports encrypted files and support for images in the PDF file by converting to PNG [...]
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Office,
Programming
Over the years, I’ve probably created thousands of reports for customers and co-workers. Usually, I have a web-based program that generates reports in either html or comma-separated format. The html format is a lot prettier and usually gives the user what they want. The comma-separated format allows the user to easily import the results into [...]
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Office,
Programming
Over the years, I’ve probably created thousands of reports for customers and co-workers. Usually, I have a web-based program that generates reports in either html or comma-separated format. The html format is a lot prettier and usually gives the user what they want. The comma-separated format allows the user to easily import the results into [...]
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Office,
Ubuntu
By following these steps, you will be able to share a printer from your Ubuntu computer so that Windows XP and Windows 2000 computers can print to it.
1) Make sure your printer is installed.
2) Open the Printing window (System -> Administration -> Printing).
3) Click Server Settings in the list of printers.
4) To the right, under [...]
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CentOS,
Office,
Server
This article will show you how to configure and install the Open ERP 4.2.2 Server, Client and eTiny Server for Cent OS 5.2.
Enable EPEL Repository
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm
Read more at HowtoForge
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Office,
OpenOffice.org
Why do you need an article on building slide shows in Impress? You don’t, in one sense, because the application is simple enough for anyone who has ever seen a slide show to figure out. If you want, you can just plunge in and learn by doing. However, if you take the time to learn, [...]
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Office
Scribus, a free, open source desktop publishing application, offers a wide range of page layout features, but one thing it lacks is the ability to print booklets. Fortunately, I’ve come across a simple procedure that lets you work around this issue. Here’s how to do it in Linux; Windows users should be able to follow [...]
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Office,
Ubuntu
In a release long, long ago and in a galaxy far, far away I blogged about how to configure Ubuntu to print directly to a .pdf file. Looking back to this article it appears to be outdated an in need of some corrections. This tutorial will outline how to use and, if needed, [...]
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Office
Workflow is about getting the right work to the right people at the right time, repeatedly—and knowing you have done so. Workflow is human-centric. First and foremost, workflow is a human activity that is made by and for those who use it: workflow is something that can easily be handled and understood by human beings.
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