Unlock Kubuntu, Ubuntu Media Playback

If the podcast or music collection has some non-open-standard format, such as mp3s. Then there are a few things to know to start listening to them or watching them, and the ubuntu community has some documentation available, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats .

Managing services with update-rc.d

There are some useful examples that show uses of the command, "update-rc.d", at the following link, http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.d . Although, as an option there should be rcconf. As explained here http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-runlevel-configuration-tool-to-start-service/ .

Open-Xchange Support coming with KDE's PIM Architecture

http://blog.credativ.com/2010/01/bringing-groupware-to-kde-akonadi-resources-for-open-xchange-and-groupdav/

http://tokoe-kde.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-xchange-support-for-akonadi.html

Spotlight on KOffice, Is A Must Read Interview

For anyone interested in the development of open standards or standard KDE applications. Then the interview of Inge Wallin, the KOffice Promotions Lead, at http://www.consortiuminfo.org/ is a must read. During the interview they touch on comparing KOffice to OO.o (openoffice.org), and they also discuss the future plans for KOffice. So without further adieu, here is the link to the interview(  http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060505081533186 ). Also, If you find that interview interesting, then maybe you'll also enjoy the next with Louis Suarez-Pots, OpenOffice's Community Manager( http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060513194119192 ).

Updating Gentoo Linux to 2010.0 Profile

3.  Profile updating instructions

General instructions

Important: Make sure your Portage is updated before performing any profile changes.

First, run emerge eselect. The eselect utility will let you view and select profiles easily, without needing to create or remove symlinks by hand.

Code Listing 3.1: Profile selection with eselect

(View available profiles) # eselect profile list (Select the number of your desired profile from the list) # eselect profile set <number>

If you'd still prefer to change profiles manually, then simply do the following:

Code Listing 3.2: Changing profiles manually

# rm /etc/make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/<selected profile> /etc/make.profile

Note: There are desktop and server subprofiles for most architectures. Examine these profiles carefully, as they may serve your needs better than the extremely minimal default profiles.

Note: The developer subprofile is specifically for Gentoo Linux development tasks. It is not meant to help set up general development environments.



The above is just from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml.

SuSE 11.2 64 Bit Installer Fails Hardware Detection part 2

To follow up on the last post about installing Opensuse 11.2, I have installed Opensuse, and last time I didn't have both LCD monitors using the VGA port and DVI port. So, having both on during my next attempt show the install screen cloned on both screens, and looking at the monitor feed through the VGA port, I install Opensuse, as one usually can, via the graphical installer. Although, during the install and until I installed Nvidia's drivers, the screen connected to the DVI port was randomly blacking-out and plinking-on.

Kay Ramme of Sun has created “ODF@WWW,” an ODF Wiki

Bellow is a list of entries in a blog entertaining the notion of Openoffice taking command of a wiki. So docments can be accessed via the browser, and they can be edited via Openoffice.

The current implementation of the  system did not express any utilities for reporting broken links, ones out of range of a specified folder, or other link management. Although, I can image many finding this useful as-is.

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_an_odf_wiki

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_an_odf_wiki

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_how_it_works

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_simply_install

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_going_forward

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_ooo_conf_2008

http://artofsolving.com/opensource

http://artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter

http://groups.google.com/group/jodconverter

http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/

http://vijaydev.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/using-jodconverter/

http://www.bitsandpix.com/entry/java-jodconverter-3x-getting-started/