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Archive for November, 2005
March of the Linux Distros
Nov 30th
Every year in the last few weeks leading to Christmas I notice a sudden upswing in the number of new Linux distros available. I think this phenomenon has less to do with general Windows ennui. And more with the wanna-be geeks deciding to scope out Linux. Who schedule their experiments for the Christmas holidays.
Even I’ve fallen victim to this holiday fervor. I’ve installed two Linux distros (on separate hard drives of course) on my second computer. While you can supposedly install two distros on the same disk I found it only works if their sources are the same. These More >
Raptor: Call of the Shadows Revisited
Nov 20th
I’ve spent the better part of this weekend playing an old DOS-era game: Apogee’s Raptor: Call fo The Shadows. While I’ve played both this, and a subsequent Windows version, before, in both instances it was the level-, weapon- and feature-limited shareware version. But a friend cleaning out old software offered me the complete registered version on CD-ROM!
So my son (who’s supposed to be studying for exams) and I spent a weekend bonding by shout. Raptor doesn’t work over a LAN and we had to exchange notes of baddies found and destroyed, scores achieved and levels crossed by shouting between rooms! Daddy More >
Firefox 1.5 RC2 Musings
Nov 15th
I must saw I’m quite impressed by the overall quality encapsulated in Firefox 1.5 RC2. For a change I didn’t have to download the entire 5+ MB package (on Windows). What I did get instead was an in-browser alert via a pop-up dialog that a new version was available. And would I like to upgrade. What a question. Of course! An upgrade can (mostly anyways) always be an improvement of the existing build. The pop-up dialog box also offers a Details link. Clicking doesn’t open a new instance (window) of Firefox and open the Firefox Releases page. However as Firefox 1.5 More >
OpenOffice.org 2.0′s A Suite Little Rock ‘n Ruler
Nov 8th
So, you have a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. Never mind which version. Oh! You don’t, well never mind. If you really want a copy and are willing to compromise, you could download a pirated version via Torrents, on a CD sourced from a friend or direct from your somewhat-friendly neighborhood pirate. Or you could acquire a absolutely legal and powerful alternative: OpenOffice.org 2.0 available (in separate versions) for MacOS (OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 only), Windows and Unix/Linux/Solaris.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the first office suite to support for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard. This XML file format can be used regardless of vendor specific More >
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