Codeweaver’s Crossover Office product is amazing! It is based on WINE and steps through “installing” the Microsoft office suite from the distribution CD onto a Linux system. It takes care of faking out of file system so it has a C: drive named ‘fake_windows’. The performance a a little but slower than running natively under Windows 2000 professional on the same hardware, but acceptable. The fonts are a little off, but I haven’t yet installed all the fonts from Microsoft’s website. Go buy it. It is definitely worth the $54.95.
Archive for March, 2002
Running Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel on my Linux laptop
Saturday, March 30th, 2002Three companies, one cubicle
Wednesday, March 20th, 2002Integrating blosxom with Evolution
Sunday, March 17th, 2002Ximian’s Evolution, an Outlook look-alike for Linux, is now my primary email client and can display RSS headlines on its ‘Summary’ page. To have blosxom (version 0+3i) to display, create a newsfeed with a URL like this: http://www.nozell.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/xml. Don’t get it wrong since Evolution 1.0.2+ doesn’t seem to have a way of changing a newsfeed once created. (Hint: edit ~/evolution/RDF-urls.txt)
kio_fish: Use ssh to access files via konqueror
Thursday, March 14th, 2002I stumbled across this while messing with debian’s apt-cache search. kio_fish is a KDE extension that provides a way to browse a remote directory usingssh. There is no need to setup an FTP or web server on the remote system as long as you have an account there. Just point konqueror to fish://user@home.system.com.
BTW, depending on your KDE installation, you may need to also install liblcms
Take a look.
Destination Imagination
Monday, March 11th, 2002This weekend was our state’s regional Destination Imagination. After months of meeting, is it great to see the two teams work together as a group during the competition and perform a great presentation!
blosxom-0+2i patch
Thursday, March 7th, 2002blosxom 0+2i incorrectly sorts entries. Sent Rael a patch to use mtime instead of ctime.
Eye Candy/Icons
Wednesday, March 6th, 2002I stumbled on a bunch of cool icon/background sites. http://www.iconfactory.com/
Customizing blosxom with style(sheets)
Tuesday, March 5th, 2002The Blosxom doc mentions customizing the look and feel using style sheets and mentions blosxomEntry, blosxomDate, blosxomTime, blosxomTitle and blosxomBody. This is what my initial stab at an head.html looks like:
<head>
<STYLE TYPE-"type/css">
<!--
BODY {background: #FFFFFF}
.blosxomEntry {background: #ffffff; color: #000000}
.blosxomDate {font-family: Sans-serif,Verdana,Geneva,Arial; font-size: 15pt; color: #000000}
.blosxomTime {font-family: sans-serif, Times, braggadocio, fixed}
.blosxomTitle {font-family: Sans-serif, arial}
.blosxomBody {text-decoration: italicize; color: #666666} -->
</STYLE>
</head>
Write on the laptop, publish on website
Tuesday, March 5th, 2002I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I’ve wrote a one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use ssh-agent, you won’t even need to type your ssh password more than once a day.
#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com:~/HTML/marc/blog/
First entry
Tuesday, March 5th, 2002
Blosxom looks
nice and simple. Unfortunately I always misspell it.
