OpenOffice 3.1 for Ubuntu Jaunty
I’m sure a few people will be wondering. You can find good instructions here.
I’m sure a few people will be wondering. You can find good instructions here.
I wanted to promote this comment to a post to make sure it’s noticed: BibleDesktop has been released with parallel Bible viewing. There is an option to show the differences between any two versions of the Bible in the same language. That was one of the key things I wanted, and I’m glad to see…
Greg Laden provides a good guest post by Scott Rowed. I agree in general with what he has to say. I found that I did have some problems with wireless when I got my wife to switch using a defunct laptop. The previous user had just dumped it due to problems with Windows XP which…
… so this review of the new Opera, especially for Linux, should be valuable.
If clicking on a link in e-mail in Evolution (Ubuntu Hardy Heron, 8.04) doesn’t open Firefox or a new Firefox tab, check that Firefox is the preferred application (System->Preferences->Preferred Applications). Mine listed a path to Firefox, but it was wrong. (There’s a forum discussion thread here.)
These tests don’t appear terribly relevant to much of anything, but here they are. I guess I was never that worried about feature bloat, and didn’t switch to OpenOffice because it was more efficient, but because it is less expensive and I like the way it accomplishes the features I do use better. But somewhere…
I ran into a problem with the formatting in cells today for sorting. I was trying to sort a number of dates, and they kept sorting as strings. I set the format of the cells to the appropriate date format, made sure all the cells were showing up that way, and tried the sort again….
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