As of this time of this writing, the OpenOffice.org package included with Ubuntu Festy Fawn, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Debian Etch still does not support opening Microsoft Office OpenXML (docx) document format. Though the use of docx files are HIGHLY DISCOURAGED, it is still important for us to be able to read document in this […]
Deluge Torrent is yet another opensource GUI torrent client available for the Linux platform. What sets it apart from others is —- it is one of few GUI clients which supports the BitTorrent protocol encryption to avoid the traffic shaping effect policy set by the ISP. Written in python, Deluge-Torrent supports loads of feature comparable […]
The ubuntu china community has come up with a simple but creative logo to represent their sizeable community for the Software Freedom Day event. Read more at Swimming Upstream and Beijing LUG website (chinese) [tags]ubuntu,debian,community,linux,china,software freedom,software, open source,freedom,fsf[/tags]
I discovered lanmap during my stay in a hotel during the Merdeka holidays. This little handy tool can generate local area network map in PNG,SVG and GIF format by listening to network traffic from network interfaces. lanmap does this by putting network interface in promiscuous mode and representing the data its sees into a 2-d […]
As disk storage capacity increases over time, more and more Microsoft Windows user prefer to choose NTFS over FAT32 as their primary filesystem as the latter is inefficient in handling large storage capacity. Unfortunately by default, Ubuntu only mounts NTFS volume as read-only, preventing users from transferring files between their Linux and Windows partitions. How […]
The next Ubuntu release after the upcoming Gutsy Gibbon was announced in the Ubuntu Fridge yesterday. Schedule to be released sometimes next year, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) will be the next release with Long Term Support (LTS) after Dapper Drake. This means Hardy Heron server installations will be supported up to 2013 after it release […]