TLWIR 37: Fedora 17 Takes Off

May 12, 2012 TLWIR
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                    Summary: The final version of Fedora 17 does not arrive until May 22nd, 2012. I have installed the final Beta version, and it is the best version of the Fedora operating system that I have ever used. In TLWIR 37, I will look under the [...]

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Book Review: FreeBSD Device Drivers by Joseph Kong (No Starch Press)

April 30, 2012 Book Reviews
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The Introduction says the goal of the book is “to help you improve your understanding of device drivers under FreeBSD”. OK, that is exactly what I wanted to do as I am currently working on several projects that use FreeBSD at deeper levels of understanding.

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TLWIR 36: Why Hollywood MUST Embrace Free Software Concepts To Survive

April 28, 2012 TLWIR
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Summary: Google’s ultra high speed Internet project aims to bring Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri Internet speeds 100 times the current U.S. average. This has Hollywood petrified. Will users with gigabit connections pirate enough movies to decimate the movie industry’s revenue? Will piracy crush Hollywood in the way that it crushed the music [...]

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Getting Help With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

April 23, 2012 Training
Getting Help With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

This coming Thursday marks the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Many users will download Ubuntu, try it and give up because of some small technical problem. Here is a list of tutorials and resources for Ubuntu beginners that I have found useful.

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Nagios Network Monitoring: Free Training/Support

April 16, 2012 Nagios

We are providing several Free training sessions for those interested in Nagios Network Monitoring. These sessions will last about an hour and focus on specific topics but also provide a time for people to ask questions. The classes are currently limited to 15 so you will want to be sure to register for the class as only those registered will get the link to attend the class.

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LibreOffice Templates

April 9, 2012 Training
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Templates 1. Definition In LibreOffice, a template is a file that is created in a basic form for use in creating other similar documents. This reduces the amount of repetitive work that the LibreOffice user has to perform. For example, let us imagine a college student who must write and submit papers in the APA [...]

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Editing Documents and Files With LibreOffice

April 7, 2012 Training
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Editing 1. The Basics LibreOffice can be used to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and databases. Editing is most often done in LibreOffice’s graphical mode, though some simple operations such as file conversions can be performed in LibreOffice’s non-graphical headless mode. Editing files is done in a similar way in all LibreOffice [...]

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The History of LibreOffice

April 7, 2012 Training
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History 1. August 1st 1968 Software developer and entrepreneur Marco Boerries is born in Germany. He would later go on to create StarOffice, the predecessor to OpenOffice.org. 2. 1984 Marco Boerries starts a software company called StarDivision in Lüneburg, Germany. The 16 year old starts coding an office suite known as StarOffice. StarOffice is released [...]

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TLWIR 35: Open Versus Closed Mobility – The Nokia N900 Versus The Nokia Lumia 900

April 6, 2012 TLWIR
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Summary: When Nokia’s N900 smart phone was released on November 11th, 2009, it was a revolutionary device. The N900 truly contained the power of a desktop computer in the form factor of a mobile phone. It ran the Maemo 5 Linux-based operating system, and its hardware specs made geeks around the world drool. So why [...]

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Two Weeks With Bodhi Linux 1.4.0

April 4, 2012 Reviews
Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 Review

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu. It makes use of the Enlightenment window manager and includes several unique features you won’t find on any other distro

Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 was released a few weeks ago and I’ve since had a chance to fall in love this little lightweight.

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LibreOffice Headless Operation

April 1, 2012 Training
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Headless 1. Description Headless is a package that allows LibreOffice to function in a command-line mode without an X server. By running the command-line command “libreoffice” with the “–headless” flag, LibreOffice can perform tasks such as converting individual or batch files from one format to another. 2. Example To run LibreOffice in headless mode, all [...]

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LibreOffice Files

April 1, 2012 Training
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Files 1. File Types LibreOffice can store a collection of data in files. LibreOffice supports text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and databases. It can also save files as HTML and XML. The native file formats for the LibreOffice applications are as follows: Application Name Application Type Native File Format Writer Word Processor .odt Calc Spreadsheet [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta Frustrations

March 27, 2012 Reviews
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta

This article is a list of several frustrations that I experienced in the first 30 minutes, nothing major just small issues. Overall the desktop is nice to look at and works efficiently. Part of if is simply getting used to the changes.

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TLWIR Special: Star Trek Foreshadowed the Linux Tablet

March 17, 2012 TLWIR
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Summary: In this special edition of The Linux Week In Review, I will discuss the coming growth of GNU/Linux running on tablet computers. GNU/Linux on tablets was indirectly predicted by various devices on Star Trek years ago. The Star Trek PADD undoubtedly ran Free Software because commerce and for-profit motivations were a thing of the [...]

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