Connecting OpenOffice to More.Groupware through ODBC I detailed how I got my office to work with Open Source tools like OpenOffice, more.groupware, MySQL and others. What I will tell you here is now I integrated OpenOffice templates to get address details directly from the more.Groupware database via OpenOffice’s connection tools based on ODBC. This will …

Mozilla fonts suck big time. Especially if you visit a page with Trebuchet MS font like I’ve recently started using on mahmood.tv. True to my promise of using Linux exclusively over the next couple of weeks, I thought I’d better do something about the font display on my linux laptop. In order to do that, …

I fell upon Photo Friday through a reference somewhere (I think it was blogdex) and I experienced a wow moment! This site is a fantastic idea where they announce a challenge every week on Friday for people to submit a photograph corresponding to that week’s theme. I’ve always liked photography, but recently I have been …

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As I promised Martin Andersen (Thor) I’m going to be on Red Hat Linux for a couple of weeks EXCLUSIVELY to see how things go. I’m relatively comfortable with Linux but having a dual-boot system makes me switch to Windows whenever I feel I couldn’t be bothered to tweak things and get them to work …