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Was amused when I tried to open a Word document from webmail. It started in a Firefox window with an embedded OpenOffice.org instance but obviously something went wrong as it showed up a recovery dialog. After a few tries it opened a normal OpenOffice.org window that worked fine.
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Zimbra is a fantastic open source mail server. It basically wraps Postfix, and has a beautiful webmail interface including a great calendar system. Yes, AJAX, buzzwords, all apply. I've been wanting to migrate my mail into an IMAP server with a nice webmail frontend for a while. The
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Something I have been promising for many months has finally happened... We've been going backwards and forwards with so-called "release candidates" for 0.8 that were really betas or new versions, I managed eight! The combined effect of this and doing the last release candidate when
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I have been having repeated problems where my desktop just powers off if its overloaded. Its an Athlon XP 2400 and the CPU temperature was showing 79 degrees C and up (sometimes 129 degrees but I'm sure that was a bad reading...) This usually happened when I was
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Danielle and I went to the dentist today for the first time in around 10 years. And it was a positive experience! And I didn't come away feeling guilty! Yay!
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We had a great Bug Day for the Translate Toolkit. I wrote little scripts to track bug and test status on different machines, giving these results: Bug resolution 10:20 NEW 23 ASSIGNED 2 RESOLVED 21 VERIFIED 3 TOTAL 50 10:40 NEW 22 ASSIGNED 2 RESOLVED 22 VERIFIED 3
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I've set up a copy of Zimbra, an open source messenging server with a beautiful AJAX webmail and calendar client on a local machine. Planned a while ago to move my mail to an IMAP server with a nice webmail frontend so it can be accessed from more
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Was excited around Christmas to see the Jingle signalling protocol for Voice over IP through Jabber, which was jointly authored by Google and JSF people and is used by Google Talk. Google also released an open source library for doing Jingle called libjingle. This makes it even easier for all
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Had an OpenOffice.org building day yesterday. Up to four concurrent builds. My Fedora machine seems to overheat in such a circumstance and turn itself off poof! Then won't turn on again for a few minutes. Frustrating. Anyhow the Windows build of ooo-build-2-0-1 now looks like its working.
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All 11 South African locales have now been integrated in OpenOffice.org and should be usable in version 2.0.2 when it comes out. Thanks Eike for the work and the news :-)
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In about May I read about Ndiyo, a non-profit that's making ultra-thin clients called Nivo (Network-In, Video-Out). They're basically designing an FPGA that can support VNC or RDP and so creates a tiny little box that has a network connection, keyboard and mouse connectors, and a
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SessionSaver is the most useful extension I know of for Firefox, and it's surprising it doesn't have a real home - it seems it gets passed from person to person to fix things up for different releases. Basically it records the set of windows and tabs