One of the least understood features of OpenOffice.org is graphics text. People understand vaguely that it differs from regular text, but exactly how it differs or why anyone should care is mostly unknown. However, if you know the distinction, graphics text can work for you in ways that regular text cannot.
For the past four years, the "brightest minds in Linux" have come together at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit to "tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today." The opportunity to solve is coming up quickly, and those who want in on the tackling had better move fast.
Recently I wrote about controlling konsole with dbus.
As I've begun to use that script for setting up my konsoles
I, like others, have discovered that the tab title that
you set with dbus doesn't stick. This short note shows
you a workaround to make your tab titles stay put.
Last July, the Linux Foundation hit on the bright idea of combining many geeks' favorite activities — supporting Linux and buying geek gear — with a Tux-themed Visa Card that donates back to Open Source advocacy. The Linux Fund has been offering their own card since 2007, and as of Friday, is extending the opportunity to the UK.
The internet is one thing but you know you've arrived when you see
your face on the cover of a tabloid.
Although we can't quite offer you that experience,
we are bringing back tech-tips in the magazine.
This chapter excerpt is from Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for
Socially Responsible Engineering by David Douglas and Greg
Papadopoulos, with John Boutelle, published by Prentice Hall
Professional, ISBN 0137143923, Copyright 2010 David Douglas and Greg
Papadopoulos. For more info, please visit the publisher page:
www.informit.com/title/0137143923
I've been taking a Java programming course this semester at the local
technical college, which has been a wonderful learning experience. The
programming course uses the Eclipse 3.5.1 IDE along with the Java
Development Toolkit for programming in Java. In addition to using Eclipse,
I use Dropbox to save the source code and
preferences from my home install of Eclipse, eliminating the need to carry a
USB key or email/transfer the files through any other method. This Dropbox
storage method also ensures that every machine I use has the latest version
of source code files with minimal interaction and fuss on my part.
I’m a big fan of the Nagios network monitoring system and rely on it to tell me if something goes wrong with the systems for which I am responsible. I have made a large investment in time configuring Nagios to monitor exactly what I am interested in, and this effort would be wasted if Nagios detected a problem, but failed to communicate that problem to me.
Introducing Linux Journal's penguin gallery contest. That's right -- penguins. Real, virtual, 2D, 3D, with fish, without fish, etc., etc. Submit your penguin photo or artwork and be entered to win some pretty cool LJ goodies.
I'm always on the lookout for original projects, and this particular application really took me by surprise. According to its Web site, “Flinks is a text-mode flashing word Web browser. It is intended for speed reading and/or skimming Web pages and text.”
