LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration
by Peter Reutemann
"In catching up with MS Office, the new LibreOffice 4.2 now has full
Windows 7/8 integration including Aero peek, thumbnails, jumplists,
and recent documents all from the taskbar. In addition, one weak area
for LibreOffice has been enterprise network support and the lack of
active directory tools: LibreOffice now has GPO and active directory
support for system administrators to deploy and manage LibreOffice
over corporate networks. LibreOffice also includes an expert
configuration Window to assist power users and system administrators
when deploying to hundreds of workstation at a time."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/01/30/1654234
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 4 months
Re: [wlug] wlug Digest, Vol 271, Issue 17
by Mark H. Jones
> Actually, it is documented in xkeyboard-config(7). The following should
> work:
>
> setxkbmap -options shift:both_capslock
>
> The Colemak layout can be obtained with:
>
> setxkbmap -layout 'us(colemak)'
>
> I would put the above into /etc/default/keyboard (if on a Debian like
> system) as
>
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="colemak"
> XKBOPTIONS="shift:both_capslock"
>
> (untested but that is what I gather from the man file).
>
> Cheers
> Michael.
Perfect - now it takes effect before GDM starts. No more switching
layouts to enter my login password after a reboot.
Thanks Michael.
6 years, 4 months
Re: [wlug] How to Kill the Caps Lock on your Linux Desktop
by Mark H. Jones
A while ago I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout which replaces the
Caps Lock key with an additional backspace. Most of the time not having
Caps Lock was fine but occasionally I find myself having to write whole
words in capitals (esp. when programming) which was a pain. If you're
using the Gnome desktop environment (or if you load gnome-settings in
the background for those using a tiling window manager) you can set the
Caps Lock to be toggled by pressing both Shift keys simultaneously. For
me this was a huge productivity booster.
To do this via Gnome: open the system settings -> Keyboard -> Layout
Settings -> Options -> Miscellaneous compatibility options and tick
"Both Shift-Keys together toggle Caps Lock"
If anyone knows how to achieve this via command line, without
gnome-settings, please share.
6 years, 4 months
Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF?
by Peter Reutemann
"Imagine having thousands of images on disparate machines. many are
dupes, even among the disparate machines. It's impossible to delete
all the dupes manually and create a singular, accurate photo image
base? Is there an app out there that can scan a file system, perhaps a
target sub-folder system, and suck in the images-- WITHOUT creating
duplicates? Perhaps by reading EXIF info or hashes? I have eleven file
systems saved, and the task of eliminating dupes seems impossible."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/01/23/2227241
Worthwhile reading the comments, mentioning various tools.
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 4 months
Passing of Michael McDonald
by Ian McDonald
Hello all
I'm sorry to let you know that Dad passed away on the 12th January and
I know many of you knew him. Over the years he enjoyed his time at
WLUG going to many meetings, helping with Ubuntu install days etc.
He was a strong believer in open source and converted hundreds of
machines to Linux and other open source software such as Firefox,
LibreOffice.
Ian
6 years, 4 months
Fwd: [nzpug] Re: python users in Hamilton
by Bruce Kingsbury
This might be of interest to WLUG too;
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Mckee <will(a)artcontrol.me>
Date: 22 January 2014 13:53
Subject: Re: [nzpug] Re: python users in Hamilton
To: "nzpug(a)googlegroups.com" <nzpug(a)googlegroups.com>
Hello
I have been organizing some Python classes to start happening in Hamilton.
These will be every Wednesday from 6pm till 8pm at ‘Te Whare o Te Ata’
Community House, 60A Sare Crescent, Fairfield, Hamilton, New Zealand
(map<https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%E2%80%98Te+...>
)
The first class will be held on 12th February 2014.
It's a great spot - 10 computers (and a pi!) are running Debian.
All skill levels welcome. Free of charge. Come along and meet fellow python
people and let's build some awesome software.
Thanks,
William Mckee
On 18/10/2013 2:07 PM, "Eric Light" <eric(a)ericlight.com> wrote:
> Myself and two others from Gravity Computing are likely to get there! We
> don't do Python commercially, but we've been dabbling. :-)
> On 18/10/2013 1:20 PM, "Chris O'Halloran" <cmoman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bruce
>>
>> I suggest you suggest a time and place and we'll see if can get a show of
>> hands of potential attendees.
>>
>> Enough people have commented on this thread that there is definitely some
>> interest.
>>
>> Is there a project available at your venue to do "show and tell"
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 17 October 2013 15:11, William Mckee <will(a)artcontrol.me> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>> I am interested in helping out and getting something happen in Hamilton
>>> with Python classes/meetups.
>>> Currently I spent the majority of my days working on projects in IPython
>>> Notebook in a Linux environment.
>>> It would be great to meet you Bruce (and anyone else) and discuss.
>>> Here's my github: https://github.com/wcmckee
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> William Mckee
>>>
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6 years, 4 months
FreeBSD 10.0 Released
by Peter Reutemann
"FreeBSD 10.0 has been released. A few highlights include: pkg is now
the default package management utility. Major enhancements in
virtualization, including the addition of bhyve, virtio, and native
paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest
operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V. Support for the
high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS and
TRIM support for SSD has been added to ZFS. clang is the default
compiler. This release has official Raspberry Pi support. For a
complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and a quick FreeBSD installation video is here.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE may be downloaded via ftp or via a torrent client
that supports web seeding."
-- source: http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/1731239
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 4 months
