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More windows Microsoft like openoffice and keet it working.

2010-03-22 2 min read Fedora Linux

Some people say that <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice doesn’t completely suit their requirement as compared to the Microsoft Office. Though most of the times I do not have that problem 🙂 But there are still couple of things that do not work with OO seamlessly and thus if you want better OO (with respect to working with MS files more seamlessly) here’s something worth a try.

You can try the <a href="http://go-oo.org/" target="_blank">go-oo OO.

Cool OpenOffice.org Easter Eggs

2010-03-21 0 min read Linux

$\"OpenOffice.\"$: Image via Wikipedia

Since it’s almost <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/easter" title="Easter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter">Easter Sunday, I will be sharing with you several cool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28media%29">virtual Easter eggs hidden inside some of our favorite <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">software applications. Today, we will take a look at some Easter eggs inside <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/8-essential-openoffice-extensions.html">OpenOffice.org so get ready to have fun or be amused.

Quick tip to change parameters in different files

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

for i in *.cfg; do mv $i $i.bak;sed \’s/a/b/\’ $i.bak > $i; done

The above command is very useful to change certain regular expressions in couple of files in one directory. This can be used in variety of ways to achieve a lot of things which would normally take some time to do manually.

Linux find command – Find file and directories faster and easier

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

This command is very powerfull when used with combination of filters and pipes and RE.

I will give some example:

find . -type f –» List all files
find . -type f -exec rm {} <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Path (computing)” href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" rel=“wikipedia”>\; –» Delete all files
find . -type d -exec rm {} \; –» Will through some common errors 🙂
find . -name "name" –> find files containing name in the filename
find . -atime 12 –> Find files accessed 12 days ago
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Edit a File When You Are Viewing It Using more / less Command

2010-03-16 2 min read Linux

<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/edit-file-when-youre-viewing-withmore-less/">Aritcle here.

<span style="color: #ff0000;">Question: I can use <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/less-is-more-the-hidden-treasure-of-less-command.html">less or more pagers to view a file. How do I start an editor (such as vi or other text editor) to edit the current file without leaving the less or more pager command?

Ubuntu Sucks Like a Shopvac and Other Linux Rants

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

Almost 100 articles and blogs on the topic of “ubuntu sucks” were published in the past month alone, and about as many were published that unequivocally state Windows is better than Ubuntu.<table border="0">

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But upon closer examination, I found that a substantial portion of these negative reactions to Ubuntu stem from unrealistic comparisons.

Almost all of the hurdles people seem to have when switching from Windows to Ubuntu appear to be errors in judgment and assessment, rather than actual problems with the OS.

Putting Linux on Parental Control

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

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Putting Linux on Parental Control
Over the years I?ve witnessed desktop Linux distros evolve
dramatically ? change the very core of the way we look at how an
operating system interacts with its users. However, I still find plenty
of forum posts on the Web stating that Linux as a

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