Secondo me è una manovra per calmare le acque con i vari antitrust: volendo potrebbe farlo uscire come patch anche subito, invece sta aspettando volontariamente qualche mese. Molti si dicono preoccupati del fatto che con il supporto ODF in Office l'interesse dei governi e delle grandi istituzioni verso OpenOffice diminuirà, io invece penso che potrebbe succedere proprio il contrario (e secondo me anche Ballmer & Co. non sono così tranquilli).

Con Openoffice 3.0 alle porte il gap di funzionalità con Office si è ridotto di molto, oltretutto nell'ambito delle PA e degli uffici i programmi di videoscrittura e i fogli di calcolo vengono normalmente sfruttati per 10-20% delle loro caratteristiche, e in quel 10-20% openoffice non è inferiore di certo al cugino closed source. Eliminando di fatto uno dei pochi problemi che esistevano oggi, cioè quello della compatibilità di formato, ci si troverebbe nella situazione di dover scegliere fra una costosa suite closed source e una gratuita ma altrettando performante: a questo punto diventerebbe molto difficile per Microsoft, che già oggi sta perdendo mercato in questo settore, vincere la sfida.

I mesi di ritardo sull'uscita sono secondo me stati calcolati molto bene: le PA e le aziende (specialmente quelle medio-piccole che sono la maggioranza qui in Europa)  non aggiornano il loro software a ogni nuova release, ma sovente fanno le migrazioni saltandone 1 o anche 2, in pratica quando il prodotto smette di essere supportato o la nuova release introduce funzionalità insostituibili: ancora oggi infatti non è raro trovare Office XP o Office 2000 in molti uffici (anche di una certa dimensione); ora siccome il supporto esteso per Office 2000  terminerà nella prima metà del 2009 insieme a quello standard di Office 2003 ecco chiaro il perchè aspettare la metà del 2009 per uscire: le aziende e le PA (in italia ma credo anche all'estero) devono dovrebbero per legge utilizzare software aggiornato per un discorso legato alla sicurezza dei dati, quindi nel 2009 (sempre in teoria) tutti quelli che usano ancora Office 2000 dovrebbero migrare alla nuova versione, e anche chi usa Office 2003 avrà solo più le patch di sicurezza, metre tutto il resto diventerà a pagamento quindi potrebbe essere appetibile una migrazione. Ed ecco perchè farlo uscire dopo: cercheranno di sfruttare l'onda delle migrazioni da 2000/Xp/2003 a 2007 togliendo mercato a OpenOffice.

ZAMZAR es un conversor de archivos multiformato online. Podemos escoger el formato en el que queremos que nos devuelva el archivo que subimos y lo recibimos en el email que indiquemos. Gratuíto, de libre uso para todos, cómodo, sin necesidad de instalaciones... nada, subes, convierte y miras tu email... más cómodo imposible. Una limitación, el tamaño del archivo, que creo que es de 100MB y para archivos mayores se requiere una subscripción al servicio y el pago de una cuota, pero si lo mira uno bien mirado, parece que es lo justo, ¿no?. ¡Ale! ¡a convertir!.

Estos son los documentos que podéis subir a Zamzar y los formatos en los que os los puede devolver:

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A todos nos gusta empotrar imágenes, enlazar objetos, ocultar alguna que otra transparencia (slide/filmina) y al final nos queda una presentación de unos cuantos megabytes que resulta ser molesta para publicar, enviar por e-mail, etc…. pero ya está la solución: Sun Presentation Minimizer, una extensión licenciada bajo LGPL de Sun Microsystems, Inc.

La extensión Sun Presentation Minimizer (Minimizador de presentaciones de Sun) permite reducir el tamaño del archivo de presentacion (ODP).

Para hacerlo esta extensión comprime las imagenes al tamaño necesario para ser proyectada, así que aunque se haya incluido una imagen de 6000×4000 y 3MB de tamaño, esta extensión le cambiará el tamaño al óptimo para la presentación y para ocupar poco espacio, ya que las imagenes para presentación no requieren de tanta resolución como para ser impresas.

Los objetos enlazados (Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)) son útiles durante el diseño de la presentación, pero luego a la hora de proyectar ocupan dos o tres veces el tamaño de la imagen que se proyecta. Así esta extensión los transforma en imagen y optimiza el tamaño, dejándolos estáticas con la presentación.

Y por último, borra todas las notas del autor y las transparencias ocultas, ahorrando espacio, pero fundamentalmente, evitando publicar información que puede ser confidencial.

La extensión se maneja con un simple asistente que da una idea del porcentaje de reducción antes de actuar sobre la presentación.

Fuente

Descargar: OpenOffice.org 2.41, Portable Edition

مراحل کار بدين صورت خواهد بود که شما ابتدا فايل doc را با استفاده از منوي File و انتخاب گزينه Open باز مي کنيد. حالا دوباره منوي File را باز نموده و اين بار گزينه Export as PDF را بر مي گزينيد. همان طور که مي بينيد پنجره تنظيمات جلوي چشم شما ظاهر مي شود. در اين پنجره مي توانيد عکس هاي موجود در سند را فشرده کنيد تا حجم کمتري بگيرند و يا اگر مايل هستيد براي فايل PDF خروجي، رمز عبور تعيين کنيد. پس از اتمام کار روي دکمه Export کليک کرده و مسير فايل PDF را مشخص کنيد. به همين راحتي فايل PDF شما آماده است.

نتيجه گيري : حالا دو ساعت بگرد دنبال سريال نامبر يا کرک نرم افزار PDF Factory! وقتي OpenOffice اين امکان را با يک مجموعه کامل اداري در اختيار شما قرار ميده اون هم کاملاً رايگان پس چه نيازي به يک نرم افزار قفل شکسته داريد.

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مطالب مرتبط :

• هرچه در ذهنتان می گذرد، روی صفحه بیاورید!
• با UPX حجم فایل اجرایی خود را به حداقل برسانید
• حذف برنامه های نصب شده روی ویندوز فقط با یک کلیک!

I had a chance to speak at the tail end of The Linux Link Tech Show to give a brief report about the two events to date. And if I sound a little exuberant, it's because I am. The project has gone better than my expectations, and there's a good argument that we won't have to do the "Microsoft-free for a week" because so many people have already converted to GNU/Linux that we can monitor their progress, find what works for them, what doesn't work for them, and they don't have to go back at the end of a week.

It's something to discuss, anyway.

Christian Einfeldt also started putting video together. If you want to see an example of Ken and me in action, you can go here for essentially a not-ready-for-prime-time version (only because it's raw footage, as the Digital Tipping Point provides, and it can be used by anyone -- yep, that's open-source video for you). Ken is on the right, I'm on the left (and that's by design). There will be more of this, and needless to say, we're going to be putting this together in a video form that will be shown to the general public. As for the events themselves, they will be up as soon as Christian can get an edited version up.

We've been discussing other things as well: It came up last night on the radio that tech help can come from anywhere with the proper equipment -- an IRC channel, a forum, a mailing list, etc. The guys at The Linux Link Tech Show have offered their help, as well as some time in a few weeks to have some of the Felton residents who have converted on the show.

Those items are all on at the top of the list, hopefully in place by the next event.

90 and sunny, becoming cooler as the evening approaches.

En fin es posible que en algunos casos funcione todo correctamente a la primera, pero si es que no existe una solución simple para esto. Después del salto.

Primero abrimos el Writer y nos situamos en:

1. Herramientas > opciones > Configuración de idioma > Idiomas.
2. Ahora en la sección idioma predeterminado para los documentos, elegimos el idioma español.
3. Algo muy importarte es que aparesca el idioma con las letras abc en color azul de no ser así no tememos instalado el paquete de idiomas.

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4. De no estar instalado, vamos para Synaptic ponemos en buscar la palabra myspell y de la lista seleccionamos myspell-es y myspell-eu-es el cual es un diccionario vasco.

   

Bueno pero si no quieren hacer nada de esto con synaptic solo copien y peguen esto en consola:

sudo aptitude install myspell-es myspell-eu-es

Eso es todo.

Click here to download.

Despite the numbers not being high on Tuesday night, the momentum continues and can be gauged in ways that may not be thought of as conventional. For example, one of the most astounding phenomena I've ever encountered is that people are coming in with their hardware -- and this happened on Tuesday as well -- and essentially saying "I've had enough of Windows -- give me Linux." These folks don't want to try it out first; they're so angry at Microsoft that they're looking for alternatives.

One fellow wanted to buy a Zareason box -- Zareason was on hand on Sunday, but they were not around on Tuesday. Christian was able to call Zareason and hand the man his phone, and hopefully he went home with a Zareason computer.

Today, Ken and I had a chance to finally sit down and talk about what worked on these first two days and what didn't. Meanwhile, interest has been raised on the project in a way that people are starting to say, "Hey, I can do this in my community," and suburban Portland, Ore., may be next on this continent to take up the Lindependence project.

Stay tuned. There's another meeting scheduled for a week from Saturday -- that would be July 26, and it coincides with a big celebration of the town buying back its waterworks from a multinational corporation (the dinner and dance is in the evening; the meeting/installfest is in the afternoon).

Ricordo la definizione di virus: un programma che si attacca ad un altro programma per riprodursi. Si può fare qualcosa del genere su GNU/Linux o in generale su un sistema di tipo Unix. Sì, certo. Il problema è che muore lì. Senza permessi il virus non va da nessuna parte e rimane confinato. Fine della riproduzione.

Però non ci sono solo i virus...

Vero. Ad esempio ci sono anche i trojan. I trojan sono programmi che fanno finta di essere utili ma in realtà sono malevoli. Contro i trojan c'è poco da fare, anche se qualcosa si può fare: ad esempio i meccanismi di rafforzamento dei permessi che abbiamo già visto possono limitare l'azione di molti tipi di malware. Ma la vera difesa contro di essi, almeno nell'ambito desktop, non è un antivirus, né SELinux o Apparmor. La vera difesa è l'intelligenza dell'utente.

Proviamo a vedere cosa possiamo fare per eliminare pressoché ogni tipo di problema, prendendo alcune semplici precauzioni.

La gran parte di esse consiste semplicemente nell'usare il sistema operativo come dovrebbe essere usato. Niente di più. Nessuno sforzo particolare, nessun programma che ruba cicli di clock preziosi per poter finire prima il ripping del DVD che stiamo trasferendo sul pc, nessun "terrore" ogni volta che succede qualcosa di strano.

Ecco una lista di buoni comportamenti:

• Non installate programmi né date permessi di esecuzione ad un file né eseguitelo tramite il comando sh se non siete è certi della sua provenienza e affidabilità
  Un giorno potrebbe capitarci un bel file .deb da installare, allegato ad una e-mail. Agli utenti Windows capita spesso, molti famosi malware erano dei file .exe che promettevano chissà cosa. La gente ha incominciato piano piano a capire che non è bene fidarsi. Noi utenti GNU/Linux ancora non abbiamo queste "fortune" ma pensateci: l'eeepc usa XandrOS, una distribuzione derivata da Debian. I .deb di XandrOS di solito funzionano anche su Debian, Ubuntu e altre distro simili. Un click e qualcuno può fregarci.  - "Oddio, vado a prendere ClamAV!" - Fermo lì. Basta non clickare sulla prima cosa che capita, no? E' più facile.
  

• Preferite i repository che possiedono una chiave di autenticazione GPG
  Avete presente quando aggiungete un repository e poi compare un errore tipo:
  

  W: Errore GPG: http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release:
  Le seguenti  firme non sono state verificate perché la chiave pubblica non è disponibile

  Ecco, questo accade perché medibuntu è autenticato da una chiave GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) che assicura all'utente che non ci stiamo sbagliando e che non siamo vittime di qualche scherzo dei server DNS del nostro provider. Il repository è autentico. Dobbiamo però aggiungere la chiave al sistema per permettere la verifica e così l'errore sparisce. Una piccola seccatura, certo, ma un bel vantaggio in termini di sicurezza.

• Se disponibile, controllate che l'md5sum corrisponda a quello dichiarato sul sito del programma o file che avete scaricato
  Molte volte sul sito da cui scarichiamo programmi o immagini ISO vediamo un codice indicato con MD5. Si tratta di un numero che identifica il file senza possibilità di errore (o meglio con una possibilità di errore così bassa da essere insignificante). Per sapere l'MD5 del file, una volta scaricato, basta dare il comando:

  md5sum nome_del_file

  Confrontiamolo con quello sul sito e così saremo sicuri al 100% che si tratta dell'originale.

• Navigate preferibilmente con un browser open source aggiornato all'ultima versione disponibile, usate preferibilmente programmi open source e nativi per il sistema (per non dover usare Wine), anch'essi aggiornati
  E qui qualcuno storcerà il naso: "Ma io uso Opera". E' un ottimo browser, seppure non migliore di Firefox (farò un confronto oggettivo fra i due appena posso). Ma è proprietario. E' difficile sapere cosa effettivamente fa Opera. Certo ci sono metodi per scoprire se manda dei dati a qualcuno che non dovrebbe conoscerli, ma qui il problema è un altro: la sicurezza. Firefox è uno dei browser più usati al mondo, ha alle spalle una grande fondazione finanziata da Google, e soprattutto il suo codice può essere letto da chiunque. Questo significa che è facile scoprire un problema di sicurezza e difatti accade relativamente spesso. Ma tra la scoperta e la correzione passa pochissimo tempo perché essendo Open Source chiunque può apportare la correzione. Se quelli della Mozilla Foundation dormono (ma non succede) possono pensarci i programmatori della distribuzione GNU/Linux che usiamo. E spesso accade davvero così per programmi meno famosi di Firefox. Ecco quindi che un browser Open è più sicuro di uno proprietario e in generale qualsiasi programma Open Source è più sicuro che uno proprietario. Un buon motivo per usare OpenOffice al posto di MS Office anche su Windows.

• Usate formati di dati sicuri
  Evitate il più possibile i .doc e similari. Meglio .odt o al massimo .rtf, se dovete mantenere la compatibilità con MS Office.
  

• Evitate di usare Internet Explorer con Wine tramite Ie4Linux a meno che non sia assolutamente necessario per verificare il funzionamento di vostre pagine web; in tal caso comunque preferite la visualizzazione di pagine locali, oppure usate il servizio IE NetRender
  Navigare con Internet Explorer è come mandare un messaggio al mondo con su scritto:
  "Ehi ragazzi, sono qui, prendetemi!"
  Non fatelo. Se quella c*** di pagina non vi viene visualizzata bene con Firefox, beh, non apritela e basta. Chi non sa fare siti web a norma non merita che voi gli facciate aumentare il contatore delle visite. Anzi mandategli una e-mail:
  "Ehi ciccio, il tuo sito non funziona con Firefox!
  Lo sai che è un programma che è stato scaricato da 8 milioni di persone in un solo giorno?
  Che aspetti ad aggiornarti?"
  E se per caso parliamo della vostra banca, il mio consiglio è uno solo: cambiate banca. C'è poco da fidarsi. Se non hanno saputo fare bene l'impaginazione, figuratevi il resto.
  

• Non eseguite mai Wine come utente root: in tal caso lascereste all'eventuale malware accesso alle directory di sistema
  Dal punto di vista della sicurezza, Wine equivale a mettere Erode Antipa a guardia di un asilo nido. No, dai, sto esagerando. Ma è meglio tenerlo confinato al suo posto. L'ideale sarebbe usarlo con un utente secondario invece che con il nostro account principale.

• Eseguite sempre gli aggiornamenti di sicurezza del sistema operativo: in Ubuntu è possibile accettarli in maniera predefinita tramite il gestore aggiornamenti; questa è la principale precauzione che mette al riparo dai malware: Ubuntu e Debian hanno infatti una gestione molto efficiente dei problemi di sicurezza
  Un click e dormiamo sonni tranquilli.

• Non usare distribuzioni per le quali sia scaduto il supporto di sicurezza
  E' giunta l'ora di mandare in pensione la nostra amata Debian Potato ;)

• Usate cautela quando si è in possesso dei permessi di amministratore (tramite sudo, su, gksudo o kdesu), evitando di eseguire programmi di cui non si conosce l'affidabilità
  

• Non entrate nel sistema come root
  E possibilmente non attivate affatto l'utente root; nel caso sia necessario, evitate comunque di navigare sul web, di scaricare posta e di usare programmi che interagiscono con la rete. Anche se è comunque difficile essere colpiti da malware in queste circostanze, se tutti non applicassero tale precauzione si renderebbe più facile il compito ai cracker aprendo loro le difese del sistema

• Non siate paranoici
  Chi viene da sistemi Windows è abituato a blindare tutto e avere paura; è portato ad attribuire qualsiasi malfunzionamento a qualche ignoto virus; ma GNU/Linux non è Windows: take it easy.

ATTENZIONE! Questi  consigli  vanno presi come tali. Non è necessario affrettarsi a installare l'ultima versione disponibile di Firefox dal sito di Mozilla: se contiene correzioni di sicurezza significative, verrà segnalata tra gli aggiornamenti della distribuzione in breve tempo. Ripeto: take it easy :)

Alla prossima.

]]> http://hatteras.wordpress.com/?p=77 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:34:42 +0000 hatteras http://hatteras.wordpress.com/?p=77 Si te gusta este Blog, puedes colaborar con Odontologia Solidaria en: http://www.odsolidaria.org/Colabora/PapeletaInscripcion.pdf…. y colabora…si quieres

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Este tema solo pretender dar a conocer la existencia de otros programas ofimaticos distintos a la muy conocida OpenOffice. No es un estudio exaustivo de todos los programas ofimaticos que hay en linux, pues eso ocuparia demasiado tiempo y espacio, solo pretendo hacer ver que hay algo mas ademas de OpenOffice.

He buscado programas alternativos a los que mas uso de Openoffice, y estos son los que mas me han gustado ( ya se sabe que sobre gustos...) :

1= alternativa al editor de textos: Abiword maneja (abre y guarda ) archivos en formatos compatibles con los de ms word: .doc .html .rtf .txt y en un formato propio ( .abw ), tambien puede guaradar el archivo creado en formato .pdf

2= alternativa a la hoja de calculo: Gnumeric o Gnumeric-gtk: Si vas a utilizarlo en un ordenador antiguo, instala mejor el de GTK. El otro te va a instalar un montón de dependencias de Gnome (innecesarias si tienes un ordenador chiquitín). Es compatible con las hojas de calculo de msoffice y de openoffice, y si se quiere, guarda tambien los documentos en formato .pdf

3= alternativa a la base de datos: Kexi. En http://hatteras.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/ explico algo sobre este programa, ( como importar bases de datos de msaccess ) por lo que te aconsejo que te lo leas. ( es un programa que forma parte de koffice)

4= alternativa a presentaciones:

a- si lo que quiero es crear yo mismo una presentacion partiendo de cero la mejor alternativa seria crear el documento con texto y/o imagenes con abiword, guardarlo en formato .pdf y abrirlo con Keyjnotegui; este programa puede crear presentaciones a partir de un documento .pdf o a partir de un directorio con imagenes.

b- si lo que quiero es ver una presentacion ya hecha en formato .ppt ( el de ms powerpoint ) la mejor alternativa a openoffice creo que es el programa PowerPoint View ( en ubuntu 8.04 esta en synaptic el paquete se llama: "pptview" ) ( pptview no permite la edicion de la presentacion, solo verla e imprimirla; se necesita tener instalado wine para poder ser ejecutado). En guadalinex V4 no esta en synaptic, pero se puede conseguir desde: http://linuxappfinder.com/package/pptview , instalandolo luego con gdebi.

c-si lo que quiero es abrir una presentacion (pero abrirla sin usar OpenOffice) hecha con openofffice y guardada en su formato .odp , la alternativa ( no he visto de momento otra ) es usar : http://media-convert.com/conversion/ desde donde puedes convertir un archivo en formato odp a otro en formato .ppt para despues abrirlo con PowerPoint View

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Tambien hay otras suites ofimaticas, de las que pongo direcciones de interes a partir de las cuales se puede buscar mas informacion sobre ellas.

Koffice: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOffice

Gonme Office: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME-DB

Comparacion entre koffice, openoffice y gnome-office: http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/Ofimatica

Lotus synphony: http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

mas ofimatica: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html

Ver en Comentarios el que he puesto sobre Lotus Symphony

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Si quieres usar OpenOffice, en http://hatteras.wordpress.com/?s=openoffice+2.4 se explica un script para instalar/actualizar a la version en español de OpenOffice 2.4.

Nie ma co się oszukiwać, iż jedyną poważna alternatywę dla Office rodem z Microsoft stanowi OpenOffice.org. Przynajmniej na Windows oraz Linuksa. Sytuacja dla systemów Mac os X, niestety pozostawiała wiele do życzenia. Do czasów wersji 2 OpenOffice oficjalnie nie był w ogóle wydawany na Maca – powstał jedynie jego fork, NeoOffice.

Dopiero od czasów OpenOffice 2 pojawiły się oficjalne wydania tego pakietu na Maca – jednak nie wykorzystywał on interfejsu Aqua a X11, przez co nie komponował się ani wizualnie, ani w obsłudze (np. skróty klawiszowe) z systemem. W dodatku przez zastosowanie systemu X11, OpenOffice.org podczas uruchamiania pakietu, można było spokojnie zrobić sobie kawę. Trwało to wieczność.

Jednak programiści OpenOffice nie próżnowali – szumnie zapowiadali, że wersja oznaczona numerem 3, będzie wykorzystywała interfejs Aqua. Słowa dotrzymali.

Dzisiaj wydana została „beta 2” tego pakietu. Moje pierwsze wrażenia odnośnie niego są mieszane; z jednej strony dzięki natywnemu wykorzystaniu bibliotek Aqua uruchamia się naprawdę szybko (o ile OpenOffice może się uruchamiać szybko) i wygląda zdecydowanie lepiej. Nie oznacza to jednak, że wygląda tak jak powinien wyglądać. W moim subiektywnym odczuciu, ikony na pasku narzędzi powinny zostać wymienione, albowiem nie komponują się one z ogólnym motywem systemowym.

Jeżeli chodzi o stabilność; nie ma co się bać używać wersji beta, pracuje całkowicie stabilnie. Póki co, ani razu jeszcze się nie zawiesiła u mnie, nie wywaliła. Nie sprawia żadnych problemów.

Co na minus ?

Zastanawia mnie czemu, nowy Oo stracił tak na płynności działania ? Wersja pod X11 działała naprawdę płynnie, nie było kłopotów z przemieszczaniem się pomiędzy stronami, czy korektą słów. Niestety, w nowej wersji przewijanie nie jest płynne a na zaproponowane słowo trzeba chwilkę poczekać. Poza tym, wszystko jest dobrze.

Pobierz OpenOffice: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

Nota techniczna, czyli co nowego w OpenOffice 3:

• nowe "centrum startu", czyli nic innego jak okienk powitalne Oo umożliwiające wybór rodzaju tworzonego przez nas dokumentu
• zoom na pasku stanu - od tej pory będziemy mogli dowolnie powiększać i zmniejszać wyświetlany obraz

• Ulepszoną funkcjonalność arkusza kalkulacyjnego i dodaną opcję "solver"
• wsparcie dla 1024 kolumn arkusza kalkulacyjnego
• Wsparcie dla otwartego formatu ".odf"
• Wsparcie dla formatów MS Office; ".docx", ".Xlsx" czy ".Pptx"

Ponadto:

• nowe narzędzie do zarządzania informacjami osobistymi (PIM)
• rozbudowany mechanizm zarządzania rozszerzeniami
• import/eksport dokumentów PDF
• wsparcie technologi Web 2.0 (obsługa blogów, wiki etc.)
• obsługa wielu ekranów przez moduł Impress

This project has left the station and is on the move.

First things first: The first event was a success, and a telling sign about the way the day would go started before the event opened. There were people waiting when Ken Starks, Grant Bowman (who represented Ubuntu), 10-year-old Linux chick Mirano Cafiero (daughter of yours truly) and I made it over to Taylor Hall at Felton Presbyterian Church, with Christian Einfeldt following us with a running video camera. That was about 2:15 -- 45 minutes before the event was to start.

Another telling sign of the event's eventual success had to do with the first person who asked for assistance. Takash Yogi, who brought his laptop, didn't want a Live CD to take home, and didn't want to dual boot with Windows. Takashi wanted to do a full install, and he went home with Ubuntu on his laptop.

People get ready, there's a train a-comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board

The gurus and greybeards were at the ready and were incredibly helpful. The greybeards and gurus brought about a century of GNU/Linux and FOSS experience into the hall, and they were incredibly helpful to those whose Linux experience could only be measured in minutes and hours.

Academia was well represented: Jim Griffin, the best of a fine group of instructors at Cabrillo College, was there, as well as OpenOffice.org's David Eisenberg, from Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. David not only helped with OOo, but also did double duty, helping out with some Linux installs on the side (as well as bringing the treats).

Youth was served as well. Guru Kai Tamkun, who turns 12 on Friday, coded in Perl when not demonstrating Mandriva, his distro of choice. Brothers Aric and Adam Rufle, who came to Felton with their father Steve Rufle, also pitched in, both digitally as well as impromptu roadies. Mirano Cafiero made her own video of the event, and gave the tape to Christian to put on the Digital Tipping Point.

Speaking of Steve Rufle (to whom I have to apologize for introducing him all weekend as "Steve Ruffle" when his surname is actually pronounced "roo-fle"), the FOSS movement is a better place thanks to his artesian depth of advocacy, and while he had brought his Open Animals up from Phoenix, he was pressed into service as a "greybeard" helping those who had questions or who were doing installs.

People get ready, there's a train to Jordan
Picking up passengers coast to coast

The nuts and bolts: We didn't take a head count. We probably should have, but we were all working on getting people into the world we already know, so we bypassed that minor detail. But from our estimation, we probably had 100 people come in between 3 and 7 p.m., most of them coming early in the event. It may have been little more, possibly a little less, but somewhere in that area.

The amazing part was the number of people who went home with machines running GNU/Linux and GNU/Linux only. A sea of Live CDs went out the door as well, however it was those who came and had enough of Windows that awed most of us.

All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket . . .

There's another event tomorrow. One is scheduled for July 26 in the afternoon, before the town's big celebration they're holding after buying their waterworks, and the other may be earlier in the week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. As always, more will follow.

It's called OOoLatex!

Since I am using Kubuntu, I followed the step in this thread, and it installs successfully.

But I will be posting when I can:

1:03 (T-minus two hours): Been fielding calls all morning, some from Felton, some not. Can they bring in their Kubuntu machine to be fixed (yes), what time is the event (3-7 p.m.), is there admission? (no). I still keep thinking I'm forgetting something.

9:28 p.m. -- My deepest apologies. This is the absolute earliest I've been able to get on line, eight hours after I wrote last.

Before I pass out, I wanted to say that I believe that today was a success. Ken Starks, a.k.a. "Helios," has pictures to come on his blog, I don't know how many people actually showed up, but when we opened at 3, things were hopping.

Part of my job as the host was to make sure things went smoothly. Hence with the technical part being in good hands -- even though we were unable to report from the floor of the hall (something we'll work on for Tuesday), there were enough "greyberds and gurus" around to make my job as digital concierge a little more bearable.

The first guy who came in -- Takashi -- left with Ubuntu, not with a LiveCD, but with Ubuntu installed on his laptop. Solely Ubuntu.. A few others followed suit; Not dual-boot, not running solely on Live CDs. These were folks who were just plain tired of Windows and wanted a change.

The maelstrom of activity during the course of the afternoon didn't stop for four straight hours. People coming in with questions. People hearing that Linux "sucked" and they wanted to see for themselves, only to go away with an entirely different (and positive) perspective on Linux.

I will report more on this tomorrow. I would suggest reading Ken's blog above. As I mentioned, I am wiped out and falling forward against this machine.

As I said before, more to follow.

Quinta-feira, Janeiro 18, 2007

OpenOffice mais rápido

Postado por Fred - Blog Pessoal às 11:44 PM 2 comentários

Marcadores: Dicas, OpenOffice

On a foggy Friday morning, with a zillion things to do and having to go into work at the newspaper early, it's good to see that the weather is cooling off for this weekend.

Actually, I exaggerate when I say there are a zillion things to do -- maybe 10 to 15 this morning at the most -- but really there's not a lot to do from here on in. Fliers are out, the word is out, another blurb in the paper would be nice, and remotely possible. I wanted to get just one more letter out to people saying, essentially, "It's time," even if it's hand delivered, but that's unlikely at this point. We've done all we can do up to now and it's now time to get the show on the proverbial road.

Speaking of on-the-road, Stephen Rufle of Open Animals is on his way up from Phoenix. If you're reading this on Friday evening, Ken Starks, the highly esteemed Helios, is on a plane from Austin-to-Las Vegas-to San Francisco, with express orders not to stay in Vegas any longer than it takes to switch planes. Stephen and Ken will join a whole host of gurus and greybeards -- a group of locals who stepped up after reading an article in the paper, a contingent from Cabrillo College (go Seahawks) that includes someone I consider the guru-est of gurus, Cabrillo professor Jim Griffin, all the way to Kai Tamkun, the 11-year-old wunderkind who's going to show folks how easy Mandriva is to install and tweak.

[In all fairness, Kai's a little more advanced than your average 11-year-old, but he makes a good case that if kids can do it, so can you.]

We're on our way.

If you're interested in watching something I would like to have looping at the events (although I don't know how I'm going to swing it), there's the Red Hat "Truth Happens" video here, which I watch often -- to the point where my daughter asks me, "Dad, are you watching that again?"

Yep. And if it can sway me, I think it can sway others toward the inevitablility of truth happening.

64 -- that's more like it -- and foggy.

Come se, anziche' pensare mi devo comrare un auto pensaste mi devo comprare la MARCA MODELLO, senza possibilita' di scelta, peggio: senza sapere di avere una scelta.

Io credo che la risposta giusta alla domanda sopra potrebbe essere: per gestire documenti, fogli di calcolo e presentazioni potresti usare OpenOffice, oltre ad essere free e open e' compatibile con quelli di MSOffice.

• Firefox 3: Well, I think many of you use Firefox, as it comes pre installed on Ubuntu. This new Firefox 3 has really improved from the former version. I expecially like the new address bar which seems to be kind of "intelligent", trying to recognize where you want to go while you type the address; Together with Firefox I use GMAIL notifier, a small add-on which keeps constantly controlled my e-mail address. You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173;
• Rainlendar2: This program is a really nice desktop calendar. As I tend to forget a lot of stuff it's really useful for me to have this small application on the right side of my desktop. I use it really much: exams, things to do, birthdays, everything. Rainlendar2 comes with 2 skins. I don't like the default one, but the second one is... really nice! Rainlander2 has plenty of useful feauters. There are two version avaiable: the free one and the pro one, which costs some dollars. You can read more about this program on it's official website: http://www.rainlendar.net. I suggest you to have a loot to the FAQ section, really useful expecially for Linux users. The installation for Ubuntu users is really simple: you only have to download the *.DEB package, click on it, insert your admin password (sudo password) and install it. There is a version for Windows;
• BMPX: I love it's simply, light and complete interface. This player lets you play your own music from your hard disk (library), listen to internat radios (shouthcast, icecast), listen to lastfm (if you don't know what it is I suggest you do discover it: http://www.last.fm), Podcasts, CDs and finally Jamendo, a really intresting music database on internet (http://www.jamendo.com). It is still in a quite early stage of the developement and it sometimes crashes (it happens to me when I listen for hours to lastfm) but I'm sure that if a lot of people will download and use this software the community will fix the bugs and provide new intresting and useful features. To get this software: http://bmpx.backtrace.info/site/BMPx_Homepage;
• Pidgin: this IM (Istant Messaging) comes preinstalled (If I'm not wrong) with Ubuntu. If it doesn't you can install it via terminal typing sudo apt-get install pidgin. I love it because it easily lets me to use different accounts (Messenger, GMAIL, ICQ) at the same time. It's interface is really simple, so that this software is nothing for you if you love spectacular effects and complex interfaces. It still doesn't support audio/video call and this is really a pity. But for the rest is really nice. It functions without problems even behind proxy: it can use the system's (GNOME's) settings (System->Settings->Proxy). Website: http://www.pidgin.im;
• Skype: not much to say about this software. I use it quite a lot, both for calling other computer and normal phones to good rates (expecially cheap if you have to call fix mobile numbers around the globe). As for Rainlenard2, you can install Skype downloading the *.DEB package from the official website. With this newer versions, Skype starts a good support of webcams. http://www.skype.com;
• OpenOffice: it's simply a wonderfull application, containing a really powerful set of tools to handle many kind of documents (databases, written documents, excel files, presentation and much more). You simply have to try it out, as it comes preinstalled with Ubuntu. If you were used to Microsoft Office it will take you a while to understand how OpenOffice really works (there are some differences, of course) but after that you will love it. On the net there is a lot of material and tutorials teaching you everything you need. If you want, try to go on Youtube and type "OpenOffice" to get some tutorials! Website: http://www.openoffice.org;
• Stardict: a really powerful dictionary on your desktop. It can both function with local and remote databases. I make it start automatically when the computer stars and if I don't know a word I just have to select it and click the WIN button (you can set this behavior in the options window). Stardict opens a small window telling me what the word means (of course, I installed some dictionaries on my computer). To check out more about this software visit: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/. There is even a version for Windows.

That's it, if you liked my description the best thing to do is to go and get the software and to try it out yourself!These are just opinions and you maybe like other software better than these ones! :)

Now, back to my studies.

The only alternative: Smoke, as in smoke from yet another local fire.

I went outside to take a closer look, and the air had a certain barbeque aroma to it.

"Fog," I said aloud. "Tell me that's fog."

Over to the solar-powered fire station, which is only a block away: "Hey, nothing's burning, is it?" I got the prize for being the 100th person to ask, and the answer, of course, was "not near here." Apparently, there are hundreds of small fires burning all over the state, none of which are burning in the area (after all, we just got finished with three big ones last month), and the smoke is wafting its way up and down the coast into the nostrils of those of us here in the San Lorenzo Valley.

The fact that any part of the state is burning is bad enough, but thankfully it's not here. And I'm not a praying man, but I will ask the supreme being to hold off any fires in these parts for as long as possible, or at least until Lindependence ends on August 4.

A couple of things that transpired today: We got the key to the hall and I discussed the set up with Kelly at the church. We may not have wireless/Internet connectivity, and if worse comes to worst, I may run the mile of ethernet cable I salvaged from the Santa Cruz Sentinel's move from my office to the church (well, it wouldn't be a mile, but it would be quite a bit). Unless we can intercept a signal from nearby -- and this makes a great case for making Felton wireless (as one person has suggested) -- then we'll just be incommunicado with the outside world on Sunday.

Meanwhile, today was a scorcher out of the starting blocks, and as I've found out the hard way, a bad day to be moving large monitors and such. Time to hit the showers.

90 and sunny (ugh -- It's starting to get like Florida, Amenditman, but without the high humidity).

For the other things such as Thesis writing, Paper preparation, and Presentation, I prepare in LaTex.

Habitualmente utilizo OpenOffice.org por su carácter libre y gratuito y por cubrir todas mis necesidades. Esta vez, para poder calcular la hipoteca, he seguido los siguientes pasos:

1. Abro una hoja de cálculo.
2. En la celda B2 escribo: "Capital inicial:"
3. En la celda B3: "Tipo de interés (anual):"
4. En la celda B4: "Plazo de amortización:"
5. En la celda B5: "Mensualidad:"
6. En la celda C1 indico la cantidad en euros que he de solicitar para la compra de la vivienda.
7. En la celda C2 indico los intereses anuales a los que el banco me presta el dinero.
8. En la celda C3 indico el número de meses que estaré pagando.
9. En la celda C4 introduzco la fórmula: =-PMT(C3/12;C4;C2)

De esta manera puedo hacer pruebas con distintas cantidades, tipos de interés y plazos de amortización, conociendo el importe de la letra.

Actualización: En la versión en español la función a utilizar no es PMT sino PAGO.

Due to permission issues I was unable to install it and didn't want to mess around with permissions our sudo.

So to install:

Download the dictionaries from here: http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/pt_PT.zip

Unzip it to your work directory

Sudo to directory /usr/share/myspell/dicts.

Copy the files pt_PT.* from where you unziped them to this folder.

Edit the dictionary.lst file and add the line:

DICT pt PT pt_PT

That's it. You now have the PT language installed and can go to Options->Language and set the default language to Portuguese.