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After one day of The world’s first Document Freedom Day, 26 March 2008 open office 2.4 was released which has minor bug fixes and new features, i chose some of them.

General

• Custom icons for toolbars are imported
• Control password-storing with a master password
• Warning if document is from a newer ODF
• PDF documents: relative links, document references, PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1) supported, and cross-document link behavior options
• DejaVu font is now default instead of BitStream Vera

Localisation

• Entries for 10 languages added

Base / DBA

• Support for Access 2007 (.accdb files)

Calc

• Convert text to columns: with this feature CSV data inside cells can be transformed into columns directly
• Columns and rows in spreadsheet can be moved with drag and drop
• Enter key returns to the column where the input started, one row below
• Formula input: “+” and “-” can also be used to start

Chart

• Reverse axes possible
• Bars on different axes displayed next to each other
• Data point label: display both value and percentage
• Data label: display each part in a separate line
• Labels on pie segments: avoiding overlapping

Draw

• Navigation (tab) order of page objects
• PDF export: page names as bookmark

Impress

• Navigation (tab) order of page objects
• Thrilling 3D effects in slide transitions
• Export slide names as PDF bookmarks
• Easier to insert background picture

Writer

• Selecting rectangular region of text
• Spell checking: easier selecting of the language
• Insert&Insert Object toolbar redesign – Writer
• Printing of hidden text can be turned on
• Shortcuts added for paragraph style Heading 4, Heading 5 and Textbody

Open Office is a cross platform Office suite which support multi documents formats the open ones, and the Microsoft ones. As of the 2.0.3 release, OpenOffice.org changed its release cycle from 18-months to releasing updates, feature enhancements and bug fixes every three months, to download this new release go here.

First of all you have to login as root, so open a terminal and excute the following command,
su -
Then you will have set up the proxy server if you have one, just open the /etc/bashrc configuration file with your favorite editor,
gedit /etc/bashrc
Add the following line to the end of the file,
export http_proxy=http://proxy_address:port
For sure you have to substitute your proxy IP and port instead of proxy_address and port respectively.
Now you have close the terminal window and open it again, you have to login as root one more time,
su -
To get the list of updates available,
yum check-updates
To update a certain package,
yum update package_name
To update all packages,
yum update

ENJOY!
Mustafa Mustafa

On the menu bar,

System=>Preferences=>Internet and Network=>Network Proxy

Enjoy!

Ok, this is pretty easy
just install the rar library :

sudo apt-get install rar

rar package supports multiple volume archives and damage protection. It can also create SFX-archives. There are versions which run on DOS, Windows (3.1x,95,NT), FreeBSD, BSDI.

to make a  new rar archive

rar a new.rar file1 file2

to extract a rar archive file

rar  e new.rar

or you can make archives or extract them, by clicking right on the archives and choose from the menu, as you are doing with the .tar.gz archives

nano is terminal based editor, it’s installed by default with Ubuntu.
you can install by :
sudo apt-get install nano

nano is my best editor, i searched for other alternatives to get highlighting and numbering the lines, till i found that my little lovely editor can reveal his real nature with little customization .

Highlighting

to enable this feature you have to edit nanorc file  in /etc.

sudo nano /etc/nanorc

uncomment the statements that look like this
## Python
#include "/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc"
to become :
## Python
include "/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc”
by doing this you will enable the highligting feature for python.To get clear highligting you have to switch the background of your terminal to black, or you can change the theme of the highlighting by editing the .nanorc files in /usr/share/nano/

Lines numbers

you can activate this features by passing -c parameter at initiation, as follows :
nano -c /path/to/the/file

or after starting nano, by ctrl+c to turn on, and alt+c to turn off.

More…

to go specific line number press alt+g, then enter the line number you want and 0 for the column number.

to learn more about nano, while running nano press  ctrl+g

Yes, it will be HOT summer, America will face the decision to choose one of Two !!! NO there will be Three Candidates!!! with the existence of Mr. Tux things will be different. Still if you are not American you can  vote for Mr.Tux

The fastest way to do that , is by entering the BIOS of your NoteBook.

You can do that by the following steps:

1. while booting, Press ThinkVantage blue button
2. press F1 to enter the BIOS utility
3. choose config then press Enter
4. go to Keyboard mouse section
5. choose disable option for the touchpad

Enjoy typing without interrupts

When i tried to subscribe my feed to Ubuntu planet, i faced a bunch of steps to complete the process, you can find it here.

One of them was asking about my public ssh key on my launchpad account ?!!!, yes i have an account on launchpad, but i don’t have a public ssh key.

you can make one easily by the following commands

sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server
echo "AllowedAuthentications           publickey" >> /etc/ssh/ sshd_config
ssh-keygen

after the last command you will get the same as follows:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/media/sda8/phi/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /media/sda8/phi/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /media/sda8/phi/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:##################################

to get the public key that you generated and copy it to the launchpad, just try

cat ~/YourHome/.ssh/id_rsa.pub/

I just noticed that using the search engine for wikipedia now will give you more detailed redults containing

This is a portion for the search results for ‘Bazar’

• English Bazar
  native_name = English Bazar |
  English Bazar, better known as Malda, is a city and a municipal…
  Relevance: 100.0% – 3 KB KiB (422 words) – 14:53, 5 February 2008
• Cox’s Bazar
  thumb|right|270px|Cox’s Bazar beach regarded as world’s longest natural beach.
  {{Infobox city||official_name =Cox’s Bazar
  Relevance: 87.2% – 31 KB KiB (4520 words) – 19:59, 7 March 2008
• Cox’s Bazar District
  | native_name = Cox’s Bazar
  | skyline = Cox’s Bazar boats.jpg
  Relevance: 83.5% – 8 KB KiB (1268 words) – 00:49, 13 January 2008
• Maulvibazar District
  Maulvi Bazar is a district in North-Eastern Bangladesh. It is …
  Maulvi Bazar is in Sylhet, a district to the North-East of Ban…
  Relevance: 75.7% – 5 KB KiB (666 words) – 21:09, 12 March 2008
• Kala Bazar
  | name =Kala Bazar
  Kala Bazar is a 1960 Hindi film. Produced by Dev Anand for …
  Relevance: 73.0% – 2 KB KiB (167 words) – 20:06, 15 January 2008
• Bazar-Korgon
  |official_name = Bazar-Korgon
  Bazar-Korgon is a village in the Jalal-Abad Province of…
  Relevance: 72.5% – 1 KB KiB (113 words) – 19:23, 12 March 2008