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{ Monthly Archives } November 2006

Corel To Distribute Firefox with WordPerfect Office X3

This is good news.
As you are fully aware, most likely anyway, I don’t use WordPerfect as: 1) it’s not Free Software, and 2) it doesn’t support ODF natively. However, with that said, this is great news, for a couple reasons. First, it tightens the competition with Internet Explorer as now, a major corporation [...]

4 New Firefox Themes

I stumbled upon Garret LeSage’s Blog, and found that 4 new themes have been uploaded to the official Firefox addons site: Tango, Tangerine, Gnome and Industrial. What I really love about these themes, is how well they integrate with the Gnome desktop. It almost feels now, that I am using a native Linux [...]

Mail Server Up

Yup. That’s right. I *finally* got my mail server working. Good gravy! After almost a year of not only no mail from my domain to friends/family, but localhost mail was also down for over a year.
What does this mean? It means that after getting it up and running today, I [...]

I Left My Print

Good Luck Pete!

Avatar Changing Time

It’s that time again. Every Ubuntu release, I change my avatar to the character related to the release. First, it was a warthog, then a hedgehog, then a badger, followed by a duck, and finally, a newt. I don’t know why, it’s just fun. Usually, I just take a wallpaper from [...]

Disappointed in Debian

I have been a long time reader of Planet Debian, mainly because I am a Debian man myself. Not as a desktop or server user, but as a platform user. I see Debian most useful as a platform, making it possible for the likes of Ubuntu, Knoppix and Damn Small Linux. I [...]

Firefox 2 Backspace

In case you are unaware, or you were caught with your pants down, Firefox 2 has changed the preference to how the backspace key acts. By default in 1.5.0.* or earlier, the backspace key used to take you back/forward through pages. Now, it acts as PGUP/PGDN. This seem a little counter intuitive [...]