2008

Open Source, Other Downloads

Upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 supports Microsoft OpenXML (docx) out of the box

The popular Free and Open Source Office application, OpenOffice.org is going to have OpenXML (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx) support by default. Scheduled to be release on September 2008, OpenOffice.org 3.0 packs a lot of features you might find interesting : Import PDF files support. PDF documents can be edited in Writer Official Mac OS support, now […]

General

I’ve Upgraded Upgraded to WordPress 2.5!

Finally after spending some precious time procrastinating, I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. New features that I immediately found helpful are : Multiple file upload Clean interface design Administrative panel loads faster Easier for me to load up media files (video, audio, photos) This could mean that I’ll be posting more regularly. Btw, […]

GNU/Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu/Debian

exifprobe – easiest way to get GPS location from JPEG files

I’ve seen few photos taken from a GPS capable camera and the photo can be traced back to its original location using photo-navigation capable GPS devices. These GPS coordinates are stored inside JPEG files which comforms to EXIF specification (using GPS IFD). However, I found out the f-spot photo manager while capable of reading EXIF […]

GNU/Linux, Open Source, security, Ubuntu/Debian

403 Forbidden during Ubuntu Gutsy Security Update

Some of you may encounter the message 403 Forbidden during Ubuntu Gutsy Security update, especially when you does your update using “sudo apt-get upgrade”. The message was displayed because the Ubuntu team deliberately block security updates from the server side following reports that the updates are breaking xorg-server package (this very same incident also happened […]

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