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OpenOffice Extensions, Add-ons and Templates for Writers

Image via Wikipedia Over the past couple of years, OpenOffice seems to have gone from “That Free Office Clone For People Who Can’t Afford MS Office to “Why Pay For Office when I have OpenOffice?” There’s a couple of good reasons for this beyond the price. OpenOffice is multi-platform. You can run it on Windows, [...]

Elegy for Linux

Image by drewish via Flickr Sorry Linux, I have no more use for you. See, Old Bessie, the Coal Fired Pentium finally gave up the ghost. I had been running Crunch Bang Linux, A lightweight Ubuntu Variant, trying to get the last little bit of productivity out of the old workhorse before she died for [...]

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Taking the Linux Plunge: The Bad

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I wrote about the Good things I’ve discovered by installing Linux. Today, here’s the Bad: Windows Emulation- Sorry. Wine is about the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. I mentioned losing Dragon Naturally Speaking. There is a way to barely get it to work, but try to follow the programming on the [...]