Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow Tuesday June 17th, the 3rd version of Firefox will be available to the web.  Firefox, the browser that was reborn from the ashes of Netscape and came to occupy a significant portion of market share (there is no doubt that Internet Explorer has the largest share) has reached a major milestone. The...
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It has just been reported at gullfoss, that there is a new dev build release of openoffice 3 (this would be developer snapshot build DEV300_m16). In addition to bringing us one step closer to the much expected OOo version 3, this dev build can be installed side by side to the “regular” OOo release, for...
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To put it simply: There are not as many virii (or viruses ?) in Linux as there are in the Windows world. Any Linux user knows this and can boast freely to his/her friend who’s stuck with Windows. Add to this the availability of clamav, an excellent, open source product for anti virus protection...
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Image via Wikipedia Unless you have been cast away in some remote island or hiding under some rock or in some cave (btw, of all three choices, the first one does not seem that bad in my opinion), the battle between open document format promoted by several open source supporters and the ooxml...
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Image via Wikipedia Unless you have been cast away in some remote island or hiding under some rock or in some cave (btw, of all three choices, the first one does not seem that bad in my opinion), the battle between open document format promoted by several open source supporters and the ooxml...
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An absolutely hilarious story about a little war going on “… in the small town of Fuddenheim”, this is a story (in allegoric language) of the opensource movement and a well known Corporation located somewhere in the northwest of the US. Read more of the story of Rinus Poortvliet, Omnifast GmbH, Linexx eV and more,...
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Ok, as is probably widely known by now, the newly released version 2 of firefox is out. However, as usual, it is available only for 32-bit versions of linux distros. Now, following the instructions from several places and especially here at the ubuntuforums, users of amd64 boxes have installed 32-bit versions of firefox (without...
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Here is a quick way to place the number of the page in a different position in the header or footer of the page. Say, we want to have the page number in the footer and on the right side of the page for odd-numbered pages and on the left side of the...
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In this provocative article, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols talks about the latest gaping holes in IE6 and urges all users of Windows to either do something or take the risk of affecting their PCs. What to do is simple: First, start using Firefox, a much faster and safer web browser. Second, switch Operating Systems to...
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One of the most solid open projects is, in my opinion, the entire Mozilla family (I include mozilla, firefox, thunderbird and all the others) which can be found here. I have been a happy and satisfied user of mozilla’s suite, although lately, I have found that firefox and thunderbird cover my needs better. However,...
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