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OpenOffice.org 2.4.x Dark Theme Workaround With Ubuntu 8.04
I’d been having issues with colors in OpenOffice.org applications while using a dark GTK2.0 theme for my Gnome environment. OpenOffice.org applications would start in a high contrast mode and would not...
View ArticleBrasero 0.8.1 And The Backports
I hadn’t been burning too many CDs or DVDs during the past few months. Whenever I had, I was always burning distribution ISOs with Nautilus’s CD Burner. So it wasn’t until today that I found out that...
View ArticleWikipedia Goes All Ubuntu
Source … ComputerWorld From a patchworked network of different versions of Fedora and Red Hat servers, the IT department of Wikipedia will finally finish a changeover to an all Ubuntu 8.04 deployment...
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Installing OO.o 3.0.0 Onto Hardy Heron (and Intrepid Ibex) [DEPRECATED]
UPDATE: This post is deprecated now that there’s a more automated way thanks to the OpenOffice.org Scribbler PPA at Launchpad. They provide OO.o 3.0.1 to Hardy and Intrepid users through the update...
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Ubuntu: Changing Your Computer’s Hostname
Quoted from #ubuntu @ freednode: (07:24:34 PM) R0b0t1: Is there a way to change the computers’ name? EG, the name that appears in the terminal. So, your computer’s name, or hostname, isn’t what you...
View ArticleUbuntu’s 2009 Milestones
Ubuntu’s numerous releases enjoy both life and death throughout the year. Now that it’s 2009, we look forward to six milestones for five different versions. January 22: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron,...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04.2 Released
Ubuntu 8.04.2 is officially released today for Hardy Heron. This marks the second of four scheduled point releases of the Long Term Support (LTS) model of this version of Ubuntu. Because a LTS release...
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PPA For OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 For Hardy/Intrepid
UPDATE (2009 09 12): Apparently the administrators of the OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA have recently dropped all of the OO.o 3.x packages for Hardy and Intrepid installs. They are now only offering...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04: RSS Plugin Crashing Evolution
I was startled to come home and find that Evolution had crashed sometime during the day. And even more so when it wouldn’t launch again. I was having an issue with the RSS plugin on one of my 8.04...
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OpenOffice.org 3.1 For Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty
Want OpenOffice.org 3.1 for Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty? Open a terminal window and follow these quick steps. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/PPA_OpenOffice.org.list Copy and paste the following deb...
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