For a daily dose of often bizarre things in the IT world, try this: <http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/> An example from today follows: As a postgrad in the late...
... Who knows. There's a really heated discussion on it on Fedora forums. I've never really considered Mr. Stallman to be my guide as far as this goes--many...
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:44:49 -0000 ... That people will continue writing applications in any of the half-dozen or so commonly used languages (and the couple of...
HI ALL, I want to convert around 500 .xls and .ods files into .csv Here anybody can help me to do this task immediately... any code or any method which is...
... Well, there's a program called xls2csv which will do a reasonable job on the Excel files. You could just run some sort of script. First, get all the xls...
... In RH based systems, at least, it comes with the program called catdoc, which will work on .doc files. It more or less does the same thing for Excel...
... I am running Redhat 9.0 and I do not see catdoc or xls2csv on my machine. Where can they be downloaded from? Do you have version and author information...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Wow, Red Hat 9.0 is pretty old by now... anyway, Debian lists http://freshmeat.net/projects/catdoc for catdoc 0.94.2-1, and its list of...
... RH9 is REALLY old. The trouble with this is that I don't know if there are any supported packages for it anymore. If using anything a bit more current,...
... I hear you. However, like the famous pink bunny, it just keeps going and going. Right now I am saving my pennies to get a new machine from Penguin...
The following was just found in another group: An interesting bug that causes high frequency of of load/unload cycles on some hard disk may shorten lifetime. ...
... Hash: SHA1 ... This is a debate with netbooks too. The frequency of disk parking to preserve battery life. Best choice is get something like the 250gig SD....
I came across Opera Unite http://unite.opera.com/ and found it interesting, but I was wondering if there are any security issues with using this? Jye [Non-text...
... Consider these points copy'n'pasted from that Opera page: " Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, " notes and other files. You...
... hehe, we (humans) tend to reinvent the wheel as often as we can in the computer sector. This all looks very much like a P2P client like Limewire with a big...
... The Ubuntu bug HAS NOT BEEN FIXED and/or Ubuntu has regressed again per the following message that appeared moments ago in the Usenet alt.os.linux.ubuntu...
... Sure seems to be: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391671> especially a Fedora Core N (vs. the present Fedora N releases). Probably other...
... The test is easy to perform and everyone running Linux on a laptop should perform it to assure your drive isn't being prematurely aged. At the original URL...
Well, I have ADSL PPPOE and, of course, static IP, I tried to set up a FTP server but did not work. I installed no-ip but I could not use it. Protocol not...
... Hash: SHA1 ... I expect somewhere someone will have decided that the expected lifetime of a laptop is around 3-5 years and anything longer is unlikely to...
... Except in this situation the drives are being loaded/unloaded 100000s of times in just a few months, and the typical manufacturer spec is only 600,000...
... I never experienced any difficulties setting-up Apache; I have it on a number of systems I use for testing web sites. Though I haven't read Opera Unite's...
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