xlsx & openoffice

November 11, 2007
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xlsx & openoffice

In an earlier posting, I wrote about a filter to open docx files in open office. Unfortunately, this is half the story in this world of digital, paperless office. What happens in the case of Excel 2007 files? Now, these files have an extension of xlsx. Note the slight difference from the typical xls...

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antivirus choices in open source

September 13, 2007
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antivirus choices in open source

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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no hope

July 30, 2007
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I came across this link using stumble, a nice little thingy which redirects you to various places across the net, places and pages you either like or dislike and you let the system know about it. Anyway, enjoy the little piece of proof that human idiocy and ignorance know no limits. http://view.break.com/335023 – Watch...

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writertools

July 25, 2007
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writertools

If you use OpenOffice Writer a lot then you may find writertools very helpful. Writertools are a set of extensions for the Writer part of OpenOffice.org.  Released under GPL 2.0, they add another menu, appropriately named Writer’s Tools, between the original Tools and Window menus (photo below). You may have to trick writer tools...

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odf & docx in OpenOffice

July 20, 2007
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odf & docx in OpenOffice

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 format...

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odf & docx in OpenOffice

July 20, 2007
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odf & docx in OpenOffice

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 format...

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