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Abiword - Writing Collaboration
Can you do this on MSOffice?Sure you can't..... But you can do it on Windows...I tried it and it is very easy to use ..... Each colour is a diferent person writing on the same file from diferent...
View ArticleLinux found in Portugal - RHL
Last Summer while in hollidays in Algarve, I noticed at the supermarket cashier after a reboot that they were using Red Hat Linux.Well, this is a major Supermarket chain here at Portugal.So today i had...
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Linux Is Fun!!! Second Life....
I'm not a big fan of Second Life, but today, just for experience I logon to my account created around 1998 :)....I had read somewhere that Second Life had a Linux client... So it was time to try...
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Linux DWG - Official Release - Bricscad v10
It happened today...Bricsys released the official version of bricscad V10. No long in beta stage is now commercial with version 10.6.3-2 (windows version is 10.4.18-1).So now Linux users have a CAD...
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Linux Mint Debian Edition - 1st Impression
Image retrieved from http://linuxmint.com/It's been long time since I tried Linux Mint for the 1st time and loved it. Only problem is that it was Ubuntu based.Well, I love Ubuntu, but it's not 100%,...
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Biometric Hardware with Linux and GPL violations
Image from: http://www.gnu.orgRecently at work we installed a biometric access control system. I was not in charge of this buy, but I tried the Windows software that is responsible for data handling...
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Novell - Who are the mysterious buyers?
In: www.thevarguy.comI usually don't do politics nor business assumptions, but this in getting me nervous, and I can't stop thinking about it....Maybe there are many interests for a lot of companies to...
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DWG Cad on Linux - Draftsight and Ares Commander
This is the first Linux Made Easy Bilingual Post. I intend to reach a bigger audience in my native language, Portuguese. I hope to get to Brasil, Portugal and some PALOP (African Countries with...
View ArticleDWG CAD on Linux - Ares Commander Commercial Release
Last week I wrote about Ares and Draftsight, and how they where close to go full comercial (Ares only, Draftsight will be free as Mac and Win released versions), so this is it....So, since 18 Set.,...
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DWF Files - A Challenge to You!
I challenge you to program a Open-Source DWF file viewer!!!I love Computing and Linux in particular, I even know some C++, Basic, Fortran Pascal, VBasic and Gambas, but beside "Hello World!", I'm...
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Moving Desktop Windows users to Linux
More than a year ago I wrote a post concerning my personal experience http://linuxmadeasy.blogspot.com/2009/09/linux-for-engineering-pratical-case.html.I manage our computer systems at work and never...
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Treepad Alternative - Cherrytree
After a few months I'm back on my writings... My 7 months old daughter take my breath and my time away...So today I'll be writing about a wonderful project from an Italian programmer, named Giuseppe...
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#! Crunchbang Statler - Enable Suspend Button on Exit
A few moons ago, I posted how to create a button for #! for suspend the computer on exit, but in those days, Crunchbang was based on Ubuntu, and the software worked diferent.In the present time,...
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Mechanical Engineering Useful Software in Linux
So, as usual, I've no wrote in this space for a long time, but today, as my daughter sleeps like a baby (10 months :P), I've got the time for some writings..So since my last post, I've acquired a new...
View ArticlePrinting to a Windows Printer from Gnu/Linux without Linux drivers
As usual I post very few, because the time is very short, but has today I made an achievement I was looking to a long time, it deserves a HOW-TO...Here it goes....The Problem:Our office only has one...
View ArticleLinux on the Desktop Dead? More Alive then Never - 750 Desktops at Portugal
Portuguese Insurance company Tranquilidade made the transition to Linux of 750 Computers.The success made a study case and granted them an award of ESOP (Portuguese Association of Opensource Software...
View ArticleMy new Ubuntu Laptop Windows Free
Today I bought my 2nd Laptop windows free. The first one was a few years ago, the Asus eee 701.This one is a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and it is made in Portugal, at Inforlândia (Insys).Its a 15.6" low end...
View ArticleHelp on Insys WV2251ELQL - Ubuntu Drivers
As I wrote on my previous post I have a new latptop with Ubuntu (from retailer), but I had a few problems..... But they are now solved, and I hope that this could help other that could run into similar...
View ArticleRemote Control your DSLR with Linux and Android
Beside being a linux fan, I'm also a long time amateur photographer, since the time of film and fully manual SLR, yes, I'm used to camera controls and manual focus....Today, as I was quietly at home,...
View ArticleSee you Soon!!
Hi all,I know I haven't been writing a lot here, and the reason is that I moved to my main computer to OS X. However this does not mean that I moved to the dark side :)....Even though now, I have most...
View ArticleI am Back.... with a Pinebook...
Hello all Linuxers...It is hard to resist the Linux community, so...After a few years away, I am back, I am just waiting a ARM 11" Pinebook -> https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707I still have my...
View ArticlePinebook - 1st review
So I got the Pinebook 11 inch with arm 64 bits.....And what can I say, I am amazed with the quality of the construction. Very good plastics, better than some chromebooks and cheap windows netbooks.The...
View ArticlePinebook - 2nd review - Android and mini Howto
The Pinebook ships with BSP Linux, that I wrote some lines about, but another official distribution (Operating System) available is Android 6.0.This Android can easialy be installed using the Pine 64...
View ArticlePinebook (or any arm64) - Linux Mega.nz Howto
As I wrote before, Pinebook is a very interesting machine, both for its hardware and in consequece for its software.The not very developed arm64 architecture brings a lot of challenges to everyone...
View ArticleWelcome Chromebook
It has been a while since I own a chromebook, and that I had sold the Pinebook.The Pinebook was nice, but very limited. I bought the chromebook to replace my dead Ipad and it turnout to be much more...
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