Rudkin On Linux, Mac and Tech

Remember Steve Jobs this way, in his own words: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

I wanted to upgrade OpenOffice on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation. Surfing the web I found numerous PPA that could be used, but the easiest method seemed to be below.

1. Download the debs from the OpenOffice.org site
2. Tar -xvzf them
3. cd to the directory containing the debs
4. sudo dpkg -i o*.deb
5. sudo dpkg -i desktop_integration/o*.deb

A big thanks to this article at The Open Sourcerer blog

Ever since I moved to Linux 15 months or so ago I have never managed to connect successfully to Windows VPN server.  Recently I stumbled across this article they outlines the all important options to select.  Check it out, it works!

John C. Dvorak posted this link in his twitter feed yesterday and I thought it was too good to not share with you.  It’s David Carlson’s Online Timeline – A capsule history of online news and information systems, a fascinating outline of what happened when and how we got to where we are now.

Taken from the mailing list announcement:-

We’re proud to release yet another gPodder version. This time, we call it the “Walk like a Panther” release for no obvious reason, and we also provide you with an official Maemo version of gPodder for all the Internet Tablet fanboys out there.

Here’s a list of the most important changes, for the full list of changes, please see the ChangeLog file in the released tarball. We’ve updated the list of contributors (patch writers, bug reporters and donators) in the about dialog for this version. If you know you should be on this list, but somehow aren’t, please get in touch, and we’ll add you. Read more…