Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
[lang_en]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 ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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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. :)
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Sim os repositórios PT do Ubuntu estão em baixo temporariamente, para escolher outros é muito simples:
Sistema - Administração - Synaptic - Definições ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
[lang_en]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 ...
Posted in Freedom, Software, Ubuntu, Windows | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
[lang_en]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 ;)
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Finalmente foi lançado o emesene 1.0!
Emesene é um Instant Messenger muito simples e leve para a ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
[lang_en]Copying what was said in the dev mailing list of Winehq :[/lang_en]
[lang_pt]Copiando o que foi dito na mailing list do WineHQ: [/lang_pt]
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 ...
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