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Microsoft shitting on Openoffice.org

Posted 10-16-2010 at 09:22 PM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

If I asked you to name an Office Suit with these flaws:

Technical support that is not free
Breaking without anyone fixing it ( at least for a month)
Money spent on installing and maintaining suite
etc

You would probably say 'MS Office'. Microsoft says otherwise

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en...8-c069a7bfbb04

For those of us smart enough to NOT HAVE SILVERLIGHT, there is a .wmv link available on the page. To download...

William (Dthdealer)

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Posted in Software criticism and review

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Kernel Panic!

Posted 10-16-2010 at 05:30 PM by sag47
Updated 10-16-2010 at 05:31 PM by sag47

Tags syslog

Everybody dreads it. When you see it, it is difficult to know what to do. Luckily Unix provides utilities which allow us to traverse the filesystem and parse files quickly and effortlessly.

Here's a search command which will search all your log files for keywords such as shutdown, poweroff, and panic.

Code:

find /var/log/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -iH 'shutdown\|poweroff\|panic' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

This will allow you to narrow which log files you...

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Appliance in Spain

Posted 10-15-2010 at 03:58 PM by ernestto
Updated 10-15-2010 at 04:10 PM by ernestto

Tags webmaster

It's my destiny to manage a Windows Server 2008, which is not so strange since I'm in Spain, a country where Microsoft and Google are owned by their almost absolute lack of training and the fact of seeing information technology as an appliance.

The fact is that with this attitude the windows server is an appliance that crazy Spanish people, needless to say it is worse for Linux.

Now, as a webmaster I think this is an ignorant country in relation to new technologies...

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Windows 7: Did you know it's actual version?

Posted 10-15-2010 at 10:25 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags idiots, math classes, microsoft, windows 7, wtf

I was always wondering why don't I see any user-agent containing "Windows NT 7.0" or something on my sites.
Today, I've got a final answer

Occasionally, my friend brought home a laptop with windows 7. He was asked by his friend to configure it, install software, etc. I asked him to navigate to my website so I can view the user-agent from opera he just installed. It was "NT 6.1"! WTF? Really? I remembered that there is a way to view the actual version by calling...

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grub loading

Posted 10-15-2010 at 09:03 AM by Pk fm Godsown Country

me installed redhat linux 5 on windows xp machine.. but when it reeboot the linux launches firstly..but me needs windows on first base then linux is optional.. hhow can i?ple help

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