Anticipating your favorite Linux distro releases? Now you can put on countdown widget in your blog and share your anticipation with the rest of the world.
Distro Release Countdown Widget
Both are provided from their respective official website, so you don’t need to worry about its accuracy. For the curious, here’s the sample of the countdown graphics
Sometimes you might have no choice except to open Microsoft Office 2007 (*.docx) files that you’ve just received in your email. The problem is, you do not have any other application that support Office 2007 format.
Here’s an easy way to (kinda) solve that problem, you can convert Microsoft Office 2007 files online, using Google Docs.
The steps are easy, you need to login into your Google Docs account, then upload the Office 2007 files. After that, you can choose the “Download file as” option to convert the file to your favorite document format (typically OpenDocument or older *.doc Microsoft Office word document).
Bear in mind that the conversion is not 100% perfect and there will be parts of document that won’t look exactly as the original ones.
uSbuntu is a tool that let you create Live USB Drive Ubuntu system using iso image files. The tool is inuitive to use and it can be downloaded from any of these sites :
uSbuntu works on Windows XP as well as Vista operating system and can work with any USB drive with 1GB or more space. The creator of uSbuntu has stated that the project would be evolved to support other Linux distribution too under the name LiLi (Linux USB Live Creator) which can be downloaded from LinuxLiveUSB.com
vrms is an application that checks for non-free packages or components installed in your Debian-based system (including Ubuntu) and subsequently display a statistic of how many percentage of your system is non-free.
vrms can be installed using Synaptic Package Manager :
To execute it, just type "vrms" in the terminal, here's an example of vrms output for my system :
So if you prefer a completely free (as in freedom!) operating system, you can use install gNewsense instead of Ubuntu.
This comic strip is true, at least in my situation...
Original strip : Mostly Harmful - I will not fix your computer
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