I’ve been using OpenOffice with my Debian sid installation for quite some time now and I must say it’s one of the best pieces of open-source software out there. I was excited to find they have just released verion 3.2 of the wonderful document creation suite and was waiting for the official release from Debian, [...]
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 Vlad Nistor |  February 14th, 2010 |  4 views | Vlad Nistor | December 20th, 2009 | 71 views |Page setup in Evolution Many people are annoyed by the fact that when you click to print something in many programs, Evolution – the very popular email client from Novell for example, the Page Setup tab in the Print dialogue where you would normally select the orientation is greyed out, leaving you unable to change [...] Vlad Nistor | December 13th, 2009 | 118 views |While I haven’t posted in a long time, testing out Ubuntu development builds has been a constant. I have so far gone from Jaunty Beta through all the Karmic Alphas, then the Beta, the RC and the Gold without much hassle. The reason I decided to go all the way through the Karmic schedule was [...]  vlad@nistor.co.uk |  Tags: chroot, Debian, Lucid Lynx, sid, Ubuntu | Category: Debian, Linux, Ubuntu |  4 comments | Vlad Nistor | August 5th, 2009 | 403 views |A year after Mark Shuttleworth announced Cannonical would release the source-code to their Launchpad platform, it is finally here. For those of you who don’t know, Launchpad is where Ubuntu gets built – the Soyuz component building all the packages for the distro and those in the PPAs (including mine); translated – the Rosetta component; [...] Vlad Nistor | July 25th, 2009 | 559 views |For a long time installing Adobe Flash player in 64 bit Linux was a pain in the but; not anymore. Earlier this year (Feb), Adobe launched a pre-realease alpha of the famous proprietary format player for 64 bit OSes. Because of this I decided to move from 32 bit Ubuntu and I love it. The [...] vlad@nistor.co.uk | Tags: Firefox, Flash, Screencast, Ubuntu 64 bit | Category: Net, Ubuntu | Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | July 20th, 2009 | 534 views |Ever since I started using Ubuntu with its slick Gnome desktop I’ve wondered about widgets. I remembered seeing them on KDE & Vista and they looked interesting, but I never was curious enough to actually inquire about it in Gnome. But last night I did and found a couple of possibilities (there probably are more) [...] Vlad Nistor | July 2nd, 2009 | 602 views |As I mentioned in my previous article Pidgin 2.5.8 was launched and it has now hit Karmic so with that source in hand I built packages for Jaunty, Intrepid and Hardy in my PPA. You can have a look at the changelog here. PPA address: https://launchpad.net/~vladnistor/+archive/ppa Instructions for adding my PPA to your sources list. Update: It appears [...] Vlad Nistor | July 1st, 2009 | 543 views |As you may know Yahoo changed their login protocols a couple of weeks ago. This modification affected just about everyone not using Yahoo Messenger and thus most Ubuntu user (which use Pidgin as it is the default IM software in the distro). At first the issue was fixed by using a different Pager server (a quick [...] |
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