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Just got myself a Slice256 at slicehost.

slice256 - 20$/month - 256 ram, 10GB space, 100GB Bandwidth

Some Features:

Full root access and rebooting
Choice of Linux distro
Dedicated IP address and Tier-1 redundant bandwidth
Reserved RAM

Slicehost is a VPS ( Virtual Private Server ) provider, where you can have full control of your “server”.

These servers are virtual, and to do that they use Xen to virtualize the machines in their Quad-core servers.

I needed a server for personal and work related issues, and a dedicated server is just to expensive.

I’ll tell you my thoughts when I do some more tests

Get your Slice today

( And give me a help :p )

Is the mirror that you use daily down ?

To select another mirror just:

System -> Administration -> Synaptic - Settings - Repositories - DOWNLOAD FROM

And choose from the list.

Some time ago, Novell released a new version of their odf-converter, that allows you to open OpenXML files (docx, xlsx, pptx) in OpenOffice 2.X.

I know that OO.o 2.3 opens docx files already, but this plugin gives better support to that “format” for does who need to open it.

I’ve created a .deb to install in Ubuntu, you can get it HERE (32bits)

*Updated package, I had uploaded the wrong one, sorry*

Hope it helps.

Finally emesene 1.0 is out!

Emesene is a very simple, light Instant Messenger for the Windows Messenger network.

Things that were left in this release:

• Audio
• Video
• Winks

Try it out, its my choice for the WLM network in Ubuntu

Screenshots: http://www.emesene.org/screenshots.html

Get it : Ubuntu | Windows | Source

Copying what was said in the dev mailing list of Winehq :

The 1.0 release of Wine is tenatively scheduled for he 15th anniversary of the project (roughly 1 June 2008, if you take Dan Dulitz’ message as the start of the project,
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/7f92abdf494ab8b3 )

Over the last six or so months, the wine developers have identified 180 or so bugs as possibly being worth fixing
before the 1.0 release.

63 of the Wine 1.0 bugs have already been fixed:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=FIXED

101 are left to fix:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=—

We can’t fix all of these before the 1.0 release; we’ll have to leave some for later. If you want a say in which of these bugs get fixed sooner, please vote for your favorite bugs. To do this:

- sign into Bugzilla (you need to register, but that’s easy)
- pull up your favorite bug from the above list,
- click on the ‘Vote for this bug’ link on the bug.

Dan’s Mail

So, what about participatig in the wine project?